Updated August 6, 2026

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Innovation Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 23+ innovation jobs at companies offering generous PTO and best places to work—full pay and a better work-life balance. 13 new this week. Hiring companies include Merck, Experian, and Connected Places Catapult.

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New This Week

Companies

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Senior Software Engineer

2mo

Apollo.io

RemoteCanada

59 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Model Development Actuary

22d

Phoenix Group

HybridDublin, Ireland

90 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Executive Director, Engineering

16h

Merck

HybridRahway, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

AI Product Management Associate

Experian

HybridKuala Lumpur, Malaysia

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Graduate Program in Technology & Analytics

Experian

HybridCyberjaya, Malaysia

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Director, Drug Substance Commercialisation & Development

19h

Merck

HybridBallydine, Ireland

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

AI Customer Success Consultant

19h

Merck

HybridPrague, Czechia

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Creative Director [Assassin's Creed]

2mo

Ubisoft Montreal

OnsiteMontreal, Canada

85 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Graduate Program in Technology & Analytics

Experian

HybridCyberjaya, Malaysia

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Head of Enterprise Support Technical

Connected Places Catapult

HybridMilton Keynes or London

63 · Good9 day fortnight£81k – £89k

Master’s Graduate Program: Business Builder professional practice

1mo

Byld

HybridMadrid, Spain

62 · GoodCompressed week€1,400 – €1,500/mo

Professor of Practice - Television, Radio & Film

29d

Syracuse University

OnsiteSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Planning & Optimization Engineer III/Senior Planning & Optimization Engineer

19d

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteSan Antonio, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Executive Director, Clinical Science, Ophthalmology & Neuroscience

Merck

HybridRahway, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Executive Director, Clinical Science, Infectious Disease & Vaccines

Merck

HybridRahway, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Executive Director, Clinical Science, Immunology

Merck

HybridRahway, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Product Director

Experian

HybridLondon, UK

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

AI Product Management Associate

16d

Experian

HybridKuala Lumpur, Malaysia

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Graduate Program in Technology & Analytics

20d

Experian

HybridSofia, Bulgaria

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Executive Director, Clinical Science, Cardiometabolic

Merck

HybridRahway, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Market Engagement & Insights Lead

Merck

HybridMunich, Germany

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

AI Innovation Lead

Merck

HybridMunich, Germany

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Institutional Marketing Analyst

29d

Experian

HybridSão Paulo, Brazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Innovation on this page include Merck, Experian, and Connected Places Catapult. Innovation 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 Innovation is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Innovation roles span the full seniority range — we list 21 open roles requiring Innovation 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 — Innovation 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. Innovation 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 Innovation 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 Innovation on current listings.