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Proactive Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 15+ proactive jobs at companies offering generous PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 6 new this week. Hiring companies include CERN, Sanofi, and Diageo.

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generous PTO 8
flexible hours 1
best places to work 4
generous parental leave 1

Updated October 7, 2026

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Product Manager

5mo

PostHog · Remote · USA

65 · GoodFlexible Hours

Client Success Lead

14d

Affirm · Remote · USA

61 · GoodBest Place to Work

AdOps Intern

AWIN · Hybrid · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

85 · Excellent4 Day Work Week

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Aseptic Filling Associate (m/f/d)

Merck · Onsite · Unterschleissheim, Bayern, Germany

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Operator

Diageo · Onsite · Alloa, UK

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Office Administrator

10d

First Intuition · Onsite · Exeter, UK

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Technical Studentship - General / Civil Engineering 2027-1

2mo

CERN · Onsite · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

64 · GoodGenerous PTOCHF 3k

Technical Studentship - Electrical / Electronics Engineering 2027-1

2mo

CERN · Onsite · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

64 · GoodGenerous PTOCHF 3k

Technical Studentship - IT, Mathematics & Robotics 2027-1

2mo

CERN · Onsite · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

64 · GoodGenerous PTOCHF 3k

Administrative Assistant

14d

ServiceNow · Onsite · Tel Aviv, Israel

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Software Development Specialist I

4mo

Experian · Onsite · São Paulo, Brazil

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Employers hiring for Proactive on this page include CERN, Sanofi, and Diageo. 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 15 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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Proactive Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 15+ proactive jobs at companies offering generous PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 6 new this week. Hiring companies include CERN, Sanofi, and Diageo.

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