Updated July 2, 2026

20 open positions

Lean Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ lean jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and best places to work—full pay and a better work-life balance. 7 new this week. Hiring companies include Experian, L3Harris Technologies, and Airbnb.

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10+

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Process Strategy and Optimization Lead

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Process Strategy and Optimization Manager

2mo

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible$129k - $152k

Supplier Quality Engineer

L3Harris Technologies

HybridBristol, UK

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Senior Customer Experience Analyst

Experian

OnsiteSão Paulo, Brazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Quality Engineer / Manager

Carbon ThreeSixty

OnsiteChippenham, UK

66 · Good9 day fortnight

Business Optimisation Manager

QBE Insurance Group

HybridSydney, Australia

71 · Great9 day fortnight

Sr. Specialist, Technical Project Management

Merck

HybridSingapore, Singapore

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Director, Quality Systems/QMS

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

HybridBoston, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Digital Product Owner - MiStrat

Sanofi

HybridParis, France

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Quality Control Engineer

OnsiteSunrise, USA

61 · Good9 day fortnight$75k - $106k

Vehicle Reliability Engineer

Waabi

HybridDallas, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Industrial Engineer

General Atomics

OnsitePoway, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Engineer

10d

DOF

OnsiteRio de Janeiro, Brazil

60 · Good9 day fortnight

Head of Talent Management Programs and PMO

17d

Duolingo

HybridPittsburgh, USA

68 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Programming Systems for Extreme Heterogeneity

1mo

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

HybridOak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Senior Associate, Quality Engineering

1mo

L3Harris Technologies

HybridCincinnati, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Continuous Improvement & Automation Manager

23d

Trulioo

HybridVancouver, Canada

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal Software Engineer - Platform

1mo

Enova International

HybridChicago, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

IT Architecture Specialist I

16d

Experian

OnsiteSão Paulo, Brazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sr. Process Improvement Consultant

29d

Esri

HybridRedlands, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Lean on this page include Experian, L3Harris Technologies, and Airbnb. Lean 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 Lean is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Lean roles span the full seniority range — we list 20 open roles requiring Lean 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 — Lean 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. Lean 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 Lean 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 Lean on current listings.