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Public Affairs Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 22+ public affairs jobs at companies offering summer Fridays and generous PTO—for a better work-life balance. 2 new this week. Hiring companies include Avoq, Anthropic, and Solar Landscape.

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compressed weeks 2
summer Fridays 3
generous PTO 10
unlimited PTO 3
generous parental leave 4

Updated September 3, 2026

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Communications Manager, Policy & Public Affairs

4mo

Coinbase · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$171k – $201k

Manager of Multistate Public Affairs

28d

Helion · Remote · USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$150k – $180k

Community Engagement Manager, Data Centers (Texas)

14d

Anthropic · Remote · USA

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$265k – $295k

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Manager, Federal Government Relations (Legislative Branch)

NEW

Adobe · Onsite · Washington, DC or McLean, VA

58 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$89k – $173k

Manager Governmental Relations Policy (m/f/d)

NEW

Merck · Hybrid · Berlin, Germany

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Senior Vice President, Research & Analytics

12d

Avoq · Hybrid · Washington, DC, USA

69 · GoodGenerous PTO$230k

Communications Officer

14d

Scottish Government · Hybrid · Glasgow or Livingston

71 · GreatCompressed Work Week

Media Lead

14d

Nuffield Foundation · Hybrid · London, UK

70 · GreatCompressed Work Week

Senior Vice President, Higher Education

1mo

BerlinRosen · Hybrid · New York, NY +3 more

69 · GoodGenerous PTO$155k – $175k

Senior Director, Paid Media & Digital

1mo

Avoq · Hybrid · New York, NY, USA

69 · GoodGenerous PTO$165k – $185k

Insights Fellow

1mo

Avoq · Hybrid · Washington, DC, USA

69 · GoodGenerous PTO$39k

Community & Municipal Engagement Manager - Community Solar (New Jersey)

1mo

Solar Landscape · Hybrid · Asbury Park, NJ, USA

60 · GoodSummer Fridays$75k – $100k

Community & Municipal Engagement Manager - Community Solar (Maryland)

1mo

Solar Landscape · Hybrid · Baltimore, MD, USA

60 · GoodSummer Fridays$75k – $100k

Community & Municipal Engagement Manager - Community Solar (Illinois)

1mo

Solar Landscape · Hybrid · Chicago, IL, USA

60 · GoodSummer Fridays$75k – $100k

Senior Manager, Canadian Policy and Public Affairs

2mo

Waabi · Hybrid · Toronto, ON, Canada

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO$190k – $230k

EVP, Communications

12d

Panthalassa · Onsite · Portland, OR, USA

54 · DecentUnlimited PTO$230k – $350k

Community Engagement Manager, Data Centres (Australia)

14d

Anthropic · Hybrid · Sydney or Sydney, New South Wales

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Data Scientist, Policy

3mo

Anthropic · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA, USA

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$285k – $380k

SVP, Public Affairs

2mo

Avoq · Hybrid · Washington, DC, USA

69 · GoodGenerous PTO$215k

Paid Media Fellow

4mo

Avoq · Hybrid · Chicago, IL, USA

69 · GoodGenerous PTO$39k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Public Affairs on this page include Avoq, Anthropic, and Solar Landscape. Public Affairs 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 Public Affairs is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Public Affairs roles span the full seniority range — we list 22 open roles requiring Public Affairs 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 — Public Affairs 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. Public Affairs 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 Public Affairs 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 Public Affairs on current listings.

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