Updated July 13, 2026

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Qualitative Research Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 24+ qualitative research jobs at companies offering best places to work and 4-day weeks (80% pay)—full pay and a better work-life balance. 5 new this week. Hiring companies include Khan Academy, Smartsheet, and Canva.

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10+

Companies

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Senior MEAL Manager

Simprints

RemoteUK

93 · Excellent4 day week100% pay£45k - £55k

UX Researcher

1mo

rtCamp

RemoteWorldwide

65 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Social Insights & Research Lead

14d

Canva

RemoteUSA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Manager, UX Research

19d

Smartsheet

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Audiences SRE-Children's

BBC

HybridSalford, UK

80 · GreatCompressed week£47k

Senior User Researcher - Public Sector

Hedgehog Lab

HybridNewcastle upon Tyne or Manchester

72 · Great5 day weekVery Flexible

Lead User Researcher - Public Sector

Hedgehog Lab

HybridNewcastle upon Tyne or Manchester

72 · Great5 day weekVery Flexible

Research Director

3mo

Behaviour

HybridMontreal, Canada

87 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Consultant (Service Design)

Connected Places Catapult

HybridMilton Keynes or London

63 · Good9 day fortnight£42k - £54k

Game Intelligence Analyst

18d

Ubisoft Montreal

OnsiteMontreal, Canada

85 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Principal Product Designer - Strategic Discovery

Zalando

HybridBerlin, Germany

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Research Associate - Youth Endowment Fund

17d

University of Manchester

HybridManchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed week

Lead User Researcher

Monzo

HybridDublin, Ireland

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave€66k - €81k

Director of Competitive Intelligence

11d

Guidewire

HybridSan Mateo, USA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Program Documentation and Learning Coordinator

1mo

Khan Academy

HybridGurgaon, India

63 · Good4 day week during Summer

M&E Analyst

1mo

Khan Academy

HybridNew Delhi, India

63 · Good4 day week during Summer

Social Insights & Research Lead

14d

Canva

HybridSydney, Australia

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Researcher - Consumer Insights

15d

Netflix

HybridLos Angeles, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$250k - $370k

Researcher - Games

2mo

Netflix

HybridLos Angeles, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Specialist I – Market Research and CMI

21d

Experian

HybridSão Paulo, Brazil

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Director of UX Research, Dating Outcomes & Platform

28d

Match Group

HybridNew York, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sr. UX Researcher - ArcGIS Apps

1mo

Esri

HybridPortland, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Sr. UX Researcher - ArcGIS Apps

1mo

Esri

HybridRedlands, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

UX Researcher II

1mo

Smartsheet

HybridBellevue, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Qualitative Research on this page include Khan Academy, Smartsheet, and Canva. Qualitative Research 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 Qualitative Research is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

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