Policy Development Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

RemotePhilippines +3 more

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Revenue Accounting Manager

DoiT

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Governance, Risk & Compliance

Runway

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Counsel (Employment Products)

21d

RemotePortugal +3 more

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior GRC Analyst

2mo

Benepass

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Security Engineer, GRC

1mo

Temporal

RemoteUSA or Canada

63 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Associate Director, Access Management Service Delivery- Cybersecurity

14d

Biogen

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Manager, Privacy Compliance

14d

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Compliance Lead, Servicing Advisory

23d

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Deliverability Engineer, Core Sending

1mo

Resend

RemoteNorth America

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$150k – $180k

Director, Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting

2mo

Deepgram

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr. Safety Specialist

21d

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Legal Counsel, Employment (APAC)

17d

RemotePhilippines or New Zealand

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Trust & Safety Senior Specialist

1mo

RemoteUSA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Vice President, Government Affairs

1mo

Fivetran

RemoteUSA or Canada

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Credit Policy Analyst

1mo

SoFi

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Manager, HR Compliance - Americas

1mo

MongoDB

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Manager II, Escalation Operations

12h

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Assistant Company Secretary

Phoenix Group

HybridLondon, UK

90 · Excellent4 day week80% pay£95k~£76k

Compliance Officer

Intesa Sanpaolo

HybridChisinau, Moldova

83 · Great4 day week100% pay

Policy Adviser - Heritage Sector Organisation Resilience

HybridNewcastle +7 more

71 · GreatCompressed week£33k – £37k

Policy Adviser - Local Government Resilience

HybridNewcastle +7 more

71 · GreatCompressed week£33k – £37k

Detection and Enforcement Program Manager

University of Pennsylvania

HybridSan Francisco, USA

67 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Manager, Vaccine Health Development

Merck

HybridUrumqi, China

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Policy Officer - Scotland and Northern Ireland

21d

Blood Cancer UK

HybridEdinburgh, UK

88 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

People Manager

Chip

HybridShoreditch, UK

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Employment Counsel

Polymarket

OnsiteNew York, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Town Traffic Engineer

Town of Gilbert

OnsiteGilbert, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$118k – $177k

Medical Health Physicist A/B

OnsitePhiladelphia, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Employment Counsel

Tanium

HybridAddison +4 more

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Security Engineer, Enterprise Security

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Security Engineer, Enterprise Security

HybridAustin, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Security Engineer, Enterprise Security

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Staff Decision Science (Risk)

Flex

HybridNew York or San Francisco

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$190k – $235k

In-house FCA Compliance Lead

1mo

Wonde

HybridNewmarket, UK

82 · Great4 day week100% pay£65k – £75k

Senior Employee Relations Consultant

HybridNottingham, UK

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Coordinator for Student Engagement & Housing

3mo

D'Youville University

OnsiteBuffalo, USA

77 · Great4 day week100% pay$39k – $41k

Environmental Specialist/Engineer

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteCarlsbad, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Senior Treasury Analyst, Cash Management & Operations

HybridBoston, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Treasury Analyst, Cash Management & Operations

HybridSan Francisco, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Treasury Analyst, Cash Management & Operations

Las Vegas Valley Water District

HybridNew York City, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Information Security & Compliance Analyst

OnsiteLas Vegas, USA

58 · GoodCompressed week$125k

Legal Counsel - Content Safety, Product & Privacy

HybridSydney, Australia

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Legal Counsel, Employment (APAC)

HybridSydney, Australia

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Employment Counsel

HybridCosta Mesa, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

HR Advisor

16d

MS Society

HybridLondon, UK

71 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO£37k – £41k

Lead Security Governance & Risk Engineer

Klaviyo

HybridBoston, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Director of Extension Fire Program and Assistant/Associate Professor (Extension Specialist)

10d

Oregon State University

OnsiteCorvallis, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Safety Policy Lead, Youth Safety

23d

HybridLos Angeles, USA

67 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Safety Policy Lead, Youth Safety

23d

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

67 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Policy Development on this page include Canva, Braze, and Ivalua. Policy Development 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 Policy Development is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Policy Development roles span the full seniority range — we list 78 open roles requiring Policy Development 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 — Policy Development 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. Policy Development 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 Policy Development 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 Policy Development on current listings.

Senior Counsel (Employment Products)

RemotePhilippines +3 more

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Revenue Accounting Manager

DoiT

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Governance, Risk & Compliance

Runway

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Counsel (Employment Products)

21d

RemotePortugal +3 more

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior GRC Analyst

2mo

Benepass

RemoteUSA

64 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Security Engineer, GRC

1mo

Temporal

RemoteUSA or Canada

63 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Associate Director, Access Management Service Delivery- Cybersecurity

14d

Biogen

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Manager, Privacy Compliance

14d

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Compliance Lead, Servicing Advisory

23d

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Deliverability Engineer, Core Sending

1mo

Resend

RemoteNorth America

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$150k – $180k

Director, Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting

2mo

Deepgram

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr. Safety Specialist

21d

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Legal Counsel, Employment (APAC)

17d

RemotePhilippines or New Zealand

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Trust & Safety Senior Specialist

1mo

RemoteUSA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Vice President, Government Affairs

1mo

Fivetran

RemoteUSA or Canada

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Credit Policy Analyst

1mo

SoFi

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Manager, HR Compliance - Americas

1mo

MongoDB

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Manager II, Escalation Operations

12h

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Assistant Company Secretary

Phoenix Group

HybridLondon, UK

90 · Excellent4 day week80% pay£95k~£76k

Compliance Officer

Intesa Sanpaolo

HybridChisinau, Moldova

83 · Great4 day week100% pay

Policy Adviser - Heritage Sector Organisation Resilience

HybridNewcastle +7 more

71 · GreatCompressed week£33k – £37k

Policy Adviser - Local Government Resilience

HybridNewcastle +7 more

71 · GreatCompressed week£33k – £37k

Detection and Enforcement Program Manager

University of Pennsylvania

HybridSan Francisco, USA

67 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Manager, Vaccine Health Development

Merck

HybridUrumqi, China

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Policy Officer - Scotland and Northern Ireland

21d

Blood Cancer UK

HybridEdinburgh, UK

88 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

People Manager

Chip

HybridShoreditch, UK

72 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO

Employment Counsel

Polymarket

OnsiteNew York, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Town Traffic Engineer

Town of Gilbert

OnsiteGilbert, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week$118k – $177k

Medical Health Physicist A/B

OnsitePhiladelphia, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Employment Counsel

Tanium

HybridAddison +4 more

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Security Engineer, Enterprise Security

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Security Engineer, Enterprise Security

HybridAustin, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Security Engineer, Enterprise Security

HybridChicago, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Staff Decision Science (Risk)

Flex

HybridNew York or San Francisco

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$190k – $235k

In-house FCA Compliance Lead

1mo

Wonde

HybridNewmarket, UK

82 · Great4 day week100% pay£65k – £75k

Senior Employee Relations Consultant

HybridNottingham, UK

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Coordinator for Student Engagement & Housing

3mo

D'Youville University

OnsiteBuffalo, USA

77 · Great4 day week100% pay$39k – $41k

Environmental Specialist/Engineer

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteCarlsbad, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Senior Treasury Analyst, Cash Management & Operations

HybridBoston, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Treasury Analyst, Cash Management & Operations

HybridSan Francisco, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Treasury Analyst, Cash Management & Operations

Las Vegas Valley Water District

HybridNew York City, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Information Security & Compliance Analyst

OnsiteLas Vegas, USA

58 · GoodCompressed week$125k

Legal Counsel - Content Safety, Product & Privacy

HybridSydney, Australia

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Legal Counsel, Employment (APAC)

HybridSydney, Australia

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Employment Counsel

HybridCosta Mesa, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

HR Advisor

16d

MS Society

HybridLondon, UK

71 · Great5 day weekGenerous PTO£37k – £41k

Lead Security Governance & Risk Engineer

Klaviyo

HybridBoston, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Director of Extension Fire Program and Assistant/Associate Professor (Extension Specialist)

10d

Oregon State University

OnsiteCorvallis, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Safety Policy Lead, Youth Safety

23d

HybridLos Angeles, USA

67 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Safety Policy Lead, Youth Safety

23d