Updated July 29, 2026

29 open positions

Initiative Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 29+ initiative jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—full pay and a better work-life balance. 7 new this week. Hiring companies include Thinking Machines Lab, Sanofi, and Yext.

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Senior Executive Assistant

Amgen

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Happiness Engineer – Customer Support & Success

2mo

Automattic

RemoteUSA

83 · Great5 day weekVery Flexible

Senior Cloud Engineer - Product Metrics

1mo

ClickHouse

RemoteCanada

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Business Consultant

1mo

Kinaxis

RemoteUSA

63 · GoodRotating 4 day week

Team Administrator and Office Coordinator

New Economics Foundation

HybridLondon, UK

82 · Great4 day week100% pay£37k – £39k

Senior Administrative Assistant

Sanofi

HybridMorristown, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Account Manager Packaging

12d

Händlerbund

HybridLeipzig, Germany

84 · Great4 day week100% pay

Multimedia Producer

11d

City of Moreton Bay

HybridStrathpine, Australia

80 · Great9 day fortnight$104k

Specialist, Concierge Services

Yext

HybridManila, Philippines

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Specialist, Concierge Services

Yext

HybridHyderabad, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Pharmacy Intern in Regulatory Affairs Artwork

Sanofi

HybridBerlin, Germany

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Director, US Commercial and Compliance

Merck

HybridNorth Wales, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Technician

3mo

25hours Hotels

OnsiteBerlin, Germany

77 · Great4 day week100% pay

Senior Executive Assistant

Justworks

HybridNew York, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Events Associate

14d

University of Manchester

HybridManchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed week

Sales Development Representative

1mo

Amplitude

HybridNew York, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sales Representative - South

26d

Sanofi

HybridTaipei, Taiwan

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

AI Enablement Manager

1mo

Justworks

HybridNew York, USA

58 · 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

2mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Software Engineer, Full Stack

26d

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

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

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

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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, Sanofi, and Yext. 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 29 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.