Updated July 6, 2026

20 open positions

Planning Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ planning jobs at companies offering compressed weeks and 9-day fortnights—full pay and a better work-life balance. 7 new this week. Hiring companies include Shape, Syracuse University, and Celonis.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Oracle Systems Implementation Consultant

2mo

Shape

RemotePhilippines

93 · Excellent4 day week100% pay

Software Engineer

L3Harris Technologies

RemoteCanada

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Manufacturing Planner

Arista Networks

RemoteMexico

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Traineeship Service Management

AFAS Software

HybridLeusden, Netherlands

80 · Great4 day week100% pay

Oracle Systems Implementation Lead (UK)

2mo

Shape

Hybrid

93 · Excellent4 day week100% pay

Sr. Account Manager, Walmart

e.l.f. Beauty

Hybrid

70 · GreatHalf day fridays

Service Manager

11d

British Red Cross

HybridAberdeen, UK

82 · Great4 day week100% pay£31k

Group Staff Assistant II - Ground Software & Systems Engineering

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

OnsitePasadena, USA

68 · Good9 day fortnight

Reporting Administrator

abrdn

HybridKuala Lumpur, Malaysia

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Senior Maintenance Planner

Central Arizona Project

HybridPhoenix, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$97k - $115k

Bitesize Careers Tour Assistant Producer

13d

BBC

HybridSalford, UK

80 · GreatCompressed week£34k - £44k

Program Control Analyst 4

2mo

United Launch Alliance

HybridCentennial, USA

70 · Great9 day fortnight

Audit Senior (Part-Qualified)

2mo

Clive Owen LLP

HybridDurham, USA

65 · Good9 day fortnight

Steam Fitter 'A'

1mo

Syracuse University

OnsiteSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Steam Fitter 'A'

1mo

Syracuse University

HybridSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Assistant Planner

16d

City of Carson

OnsiteCarson, USA

58 · GoodCompressed week$89k - $113k

Intern Business Development

1mo

Celonis

HybridMadrid, Spain

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Intern Sales Development Program (German-Speaking)

1mo

Celonis

HybridMadrid, Spain

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Social Media Assistant

1mo

Pattern

HybridPune, India

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Transportation Planning Intern

17d

markThomas

HybridIrvine, USA

53 · Decent

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 Planning on this page include Shape, Syracuse University, and Celonis. Planning 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 Planning is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

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