Updated July 14, 2026

26 open positions

Project Ownership Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 26+ project ownership jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—full pay and a better work-life balance. 3 new this week. Hiring companies include Dropbox, Suno, and Bumble.

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10+

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Brand Designer (USA)

HappyCo

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Applied (Vision)

19d

Liquid AI

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Applied

19d

Liquid AI

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sr. Data Scientist, Trust and Safety

1mo

RemoteUSA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Software Engineer

Bumble

HybridAustin, USA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience Architecture

CarGurus

HybridBoston, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$100k - $125k

Mechanical Engineer

Panthalassa

OnsitePortland, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Software Engineer - Safety Platform

1mo

Discord

HybridSan Francisco or Los Angeles

67 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Senior Software Engineer - Safety Processing

3mo

Discord

HybridSan Francisco or Los Angeles

67 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$196k - $221k

Senior Software Engineer (Recommendations)

2mo

Bumble

HybridAustin, USA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Software Engineer, Growth Marketing

15d

Suno

HybridNew York City, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Machine Learning Scientist

2mo

Suno

OnsiteBoston or San Francisco

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Lead Data Science Analyst, GTM Strategic Analytics and Insights

25d

Klaviyo

HybridBoston, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Lead Data Science Analyst, GTM Strategic Analytics and Insights

25d

Klaviyo

HybridDenver, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Inventory Manager

15d

Pattern

HybridLehi, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Software Engineer (Wifi/Embedded)

25d

Arista Networks

HybridPune, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Solutions Engineer

1mo

Persona

HybridSan Francisco, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Product Engineer

1mo

Aura Frames

HybridNew York City or San Francisco

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Software Engineer

1mo

Okta

HybridToronto, Canada

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$165k - $207k

Inventory Manager

2mo

Pattern

HybridLehi, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Software Engineer, RL Data

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer

20d

Center for AI Safety

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

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Employers hiring for Project Ownership on this page include Dropbox, Suno, and Bumble. Project Ownership 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 Project Ownership is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Project Ownership roles span the full seniority range — we list 26 open roles requiring Project Ownership 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 — Project Ownership 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. Project Ownership 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 Project Ownership 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 Project Ownership on current listings.