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SEM Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 24+ sem jobs at companies offering half-day Fridays and summer Fridays—for a better work-life balance. 7 new this week. Hiring companies include Wpromote, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Bloom.

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half-day Fridays 2
summer Fridays 2
generous PTO 3
unlimited PTO 8
best places to work 3

Updated August 26, 2026

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Senior Project Manager, Client Services

NEW

19h

829 Studios · Remote · USA

62 · GoodSummer Fridays$75k – $90kPro · early access

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Specialist

Marketbridge · Remote · USA or Canada

65 · GoodSummer Fridays$60k – $80k

Growth Marketing Lead, SEM

1mo

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours$160k – $200k

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Paid Search Manager (B2B)

20d

Wpromote · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$74k – $90k

Senior Director, Growth Marketing

22d

Spring Health · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$200k – $235k

Growth Marketing Manager, SEM

1mo

Thumbtack · Remote · USA

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$105k – $160k

Growth Marketing Manager, SEM

1mo

Thumbtack · Remote · Canada

62 · GoodBest Place to Work$98k – $127k

Senior Paid Search Manager

4mo

Wpromote · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$85k – $104k

Paid Search Manager

4mo

Wpromote · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$74k – $90k

Analyst, Paid Search

Uproer · Onsite · Minneapolis, USA

88 · Excellent4 Day Work Week$50k – $59k

Senior Analyst, Paid Search

Uproer · Onsite · Minneapolis, USA

88 · Excellent4 Day Work Week$60k – $80k

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Organic/Polymer Chemist for Advanced Fibers

NEW

Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Hybrid · Oak Ridge, TN, USA

63 · Good9 Day FortnightPro · early access

Postdoc - Mechanical Behavior of Advanced Structural Alloys by Engineering Diffraction

NEW

Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Hybrid · Oak Ridge, TN, USA

63 · Good9 Day FortnightPro · early access

Research Associate in Fabrication and Investigation of Nanofluidic and Proton-Conducting Devices

University of Manchester · Hybrid · Manchester, UK

70 · GreatCompressed Work Week

Senior Scientist (Small Molecule, Synthetics)

Amgen · Onsite · Thousand Oaks, CA, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$126k – $171k

Paid Media Analyst

22d

Bloom · Hybrid · Montreal, QC, Canada

74 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

Account Manager

27d

Bloom · Hybrid · Montreal, QC, Canada

74 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

SEM Manager

Suno · Onsite · New York City, NY, USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$104k – $170k

Lab Manager

11d

Rice University · Onsite · Houston, TX, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week$63k – $80k

Thin Film Materials Scientist

14d

CERN · Hybrid · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

64 · GoodGenerous PTOCHF 6k – CHF 7k

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Employers hiring for Sem on this page include Wpromote, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Bloom. Sem 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 Sem is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Sem roles span the full seniority range — we list 25 open roles requiring Sem 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 — Sem 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. Sem 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 Sem 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 Sem on current listings.

SEM Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 24+ sem jobs at companies offering half-day Fridays and summer Fridays—for a better work-life balance. 7 new this week. Hiring companies include Wpromote, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Bloom.

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