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Succession Planning Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ succession planning jobs at companies offering 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights—for a better work-life balance. 5 new this week. Hiring companies include Klaviyo, Monzo, and DiamondBack Covers.

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4-day weeks 2
9-day fortnights 3
generous PTO 2
unlimited PTO 5
generous parental leave 3

Updated August 25, 2026

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Senior People Partner

1mo

Deepgram · Remote · USA

60 · GoodUnlimited PTO$130k – $185k

Senior Director, HR Business Partnering

2mo

MongoDB · Remote · Maine, USA

57 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$151k – $297k

Senior Manager - HR Business Partner

J.Crew · Hybrid · New York, USA

70 · GreatHalf Day Fridays$136k – $176k

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Talent and Performance Senior Manager

Ironclad · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA, USA

59 · GoodBest Place to Work$165k – $205k

Principal People Business Partner, GTM

FloQast · Hybrid · New York City, USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO$162k – $218k

Human Resources Manager

City of Los Altos · Onsite · Los Altos, CA, USA

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight$183k – $222k

Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Marathon Petroleum · Onsite · Cadiz, OH, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

People Business Partner

Polymarket · Onsite · New York, NY, USA

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Talent Growth Manager

14d

DiamondBack Covers · Onsite · Philipsburg, PA, USA

69 · Good4 Day Work Week

Head of Talent Management Programs and PMO

2mo

Duolingo · Hybrid · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

68 · GoodGenerous PTO$183k – $275k

Partner Finance Consultant

26d

St. James's Place · Hybrid · Cirencester, England, UK

66 · GoodGenerous PTO

Sr. Manager, Operations Management

1mo

L3Harris Technologies · Onsite · Londonderry, NH, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Trainee Team Lead Engineering

3mo

DOF · Hybrid · Aberdeen, UK

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Human Resources Business Partner Senior Director, NECAD

28d

Vertex Pharmaceuticals · Hybrid · Paddington, UK

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Director, HR Business Partner

13d

Adobe · Hybrid · San Jose, CA, USA

58 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave$211k – $306k

Sr. Director, HR Business Partner — R&D

1mo

Klaviyo · Hybrid · Boston, MA, USA

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO$224k – $336k

HR Manager

1mo

Pattern · Onsite · Bethlehem, PA, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Director of People Partnerships

2mo

Tekmetric · Hybrid · Houston, TX, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Director of Executive and Board Hiring

1mo

Monzo · Onsite · London, UK

56 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

HR People Partner

22d

iCapital · Hybrid · Hong Kong, China

54 · DecentUnlimited PTO

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Succession Planning on this page include Klaviyo, Monzo, and DiamondBack Covers. Succession Planning 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 Succession Planning is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Succession Planning roles span the full seniority range — we list 18 open roles requiring Succession Planning 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 — Succession Planning 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. Succession Planning 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 Succession Planning 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 Succession Planning on current listings.