Updated July 22, 2026

20 open positions

Program Leadership Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ program leadership jobs at companies offering best places to work and compressed weeks—full pay and a better work-life balance. 7 new this week. Hiring companies include ServiceNow, Affirm, and Oregon State University.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Strategic Principal

Liatrio

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Principal Platform Architect

ServiceNow

RemoteCanada

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Product Manager, Affirm Bank

1mo

Affirm

RemoteCanada

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Product Manager, Affirm Bank

1mo

Affirm

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff Technical Program Manager, SOX Compliance

29d

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Director - Enterprise Communications

Marathon Petroleum

OnsiteHouston, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Integration and Operations Lead

Macmillan Cancer Support

HybridLondon, UK

72 · GreatCompressed week£57k – £63k

Principal Platform Architect

ServiceNow

HybridBangalore, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal, Program Management

L3Harris Technologies

OnsitePlano +2 more

63 · Good9 day fortnight

CMC Asset Lead, Nephrology

Biogen

HybridCambridge, USA

60 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior ATLO (Assembly, Test, & Launch Operations) Engineer

1mo

Boeing

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

78 · Great9 day fortnight

AGACNP Faculty (Program Director)

1mo

D'Youville University

OnsiteBuffalo, USA

77 · Great4 day week100% pay

Principal Platform Architect

ServiceNow

HybridSingapore, Singapore

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Director of Extension Fire Program and Assistant/Associate Professor of Practice

Oregon State University

OnsiteCorvallis, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

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

Oregon State University

OnsiteCorvallis, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Manager, Messaging

2mo

Netflix

HybridLos Angeles, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Client Value Partner - Financial Services Industry

1mo

Celonis

HybridNew York, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Staff FinOps AI Governance Lead

22d

ServiceNow

OnsiteSanta Clara, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Platform Architect

29d

ServiceNow

HybridStaines, UK

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Principal Platform Architect

29d

ServiceNow

OnsiteJohannesburg, South Africa

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Program Leadership on this page include ServiceNow, Affirm, and Oregon State University. Program Leadership 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 Program Leadership is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

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