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Proactive Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 18+ proactive jobs at companies offering 4-day weeks and generous PTO—for a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Experian, CERN, and Sanofi.

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4-day weeks 2
half-day Fridays 1
generous PTO 5
unlimited PTO 3
best places to work 6

Updated September 7, 2026

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Data Scientist III

Experian · Remote · São Paulo, Brazil

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Data Science Specialist

1mo

Experian · Remote · São Paulo, Brazil

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Data Scientist III

1mo

Experian · Remote · São Paulo, Brazil

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Account Manager

AWIN · Hybrid · Milan, Italy

85 · Excellent4 Day Work Week

Management Assistant

1mo

&samhoud · Hybrid · Utrecht, Netherlands

84 · Great4 Day Work Week

Receptionist

Costain · Onsite · Wigan, England, UK

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

Medical Affair Internship

Sanofi · Hybrid · Milano, Italy

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Global Tax Trainee

25d

Cabify · Hybrid · Madrid, Madrid, Spain

72 · GreatRotating 4 Day Week

Operations Support Coordinator

2mo

Gungho · Hybrid · Bournemouth or Poundbury

66 · GoodCompressed Work Week

Administrative Student Programme 2027-1

1mo

CERN · Onsite · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

64 · GoodGenerous PTOCHF 3k

Technical Studentship - General / Civil Engineering 2027-1

1mo

CERN · Onsite · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

64 · GoodGenerous PTOCHF 3k

Technical Studentship - IT, Mathematics & Robotics

1mo

CERN · Onsite · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

64 · GoodGenerous PTOCHF 3k

Advisor Support Coordinator

1mo

Farther · Hybrid · Dallas, TX, USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Legal PA

18d

Pinsent Masons · Hybrid · Birmingham, UK

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

People Coordinator

1mo

CHAOS Industries · Onsite · London, UK

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Administrative Assistant

1mo

Bombas · Hybrid · New York, NY, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Software Development Specialist I

3mo

Experian · Onsite · São Paulo, Brazil

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

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

Proactive roles span the full seniority range — we list 19 open roles requiring Proactive 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 — Proactive 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. Proactive 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 Proactive 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 Proactive on current listings.

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