Updated July 8, 2026

30 open positions

Initiative Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 30+ initiative jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—full pay and a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Thinking Machines Lab, Celonis, and University of Manchester.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Happiness Engineer – Customer Support & Success

1mo

Automattic

RemoteUSA

83 · Great5 day weekVery Flexible

Senior Cloud Engineer - Product Metrics

12d

ClickHouse

RemoteCanada

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Analyst, Treasury Operations

1mo

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Business Consultant

14d

Kinaxis

RemoteUSA

63 · GoodRotating 4 day week

Campus Parking Supervisor

University of Manchester

HybridManchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed week

Legal and Health & Safety Office Manager

Historic England

HybridLondon, UK

71 · GreatCompressed week

Sales Representative - Immunology (South)

Sanofi

HybridTaipei, Taiwan

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Technician

2mo

25hours Hotels

OnsiteBerlin, Germany

77 · Great4 day week100% pay

Software Engineer, Full Stack

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Engineering Vacation Student Program

DOF

OnsitePerth, Australia

60 · Good9 day fortnight

Operations Executive Assistant

16d

University of Manchester

HybridManchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed week

Sales Development Representative

Workato

HybridSingapore, Singapore

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sales Development Representative

12d

Amplitude

HybridNew York, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Management Accountant

1mo

L3Harris Technologies

HybridFremantle, Australia

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Senior Scientist, Materials and Biophysical Characterization

12d

Merck

HybridRahway, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Internship Training & Social Relations

1mo

Biogen

HybridParis, France

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Station Manager for Electric Driveline Prototype Build

1mo

Volvo Cars

HybridFloby, Sweden

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Risk & Insurance Enablement Manager

1mo

Justworks

HybridNew York, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Enterprise Business Development Representative

1mo

Celonis

HybridMadrid, Spain

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

C# Developer in Market Finance

1mo

Meritis

HybridParis, France

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Channel Partner Manager

1mo

Tekmetric

HybridHouston, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Portfolio (Scale) Account Executive

1mo

Celonis

HybridTokyo, Japan

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Office Manager

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Reception & Workplace Experience Coordinator

15d

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Software Engineer, Systems Generalist

2mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Software Engineer, Full Stack

2mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO$350k - $475k

Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Training Systems

2mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Engineer, Infrastructure, RL Systems

2mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Numerics

2mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Inference

2mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Every role is a genuine reduced-hours position, manually curated and refreshed daily. How we curate

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Initiative on this page include Thinking Machines Lab, Celonis, and University of Manchester. Initiative roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Initiative is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Initiative roles span the full seniority range — we list 30 open roles requiring Initiative across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Initiative hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Initiative roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Initiative candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Initiative on current listings.