Updated July 17, 2026

20 open positions

Technical Direction Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ technical direction jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—full pay and a better work-life balance. 6 new this week. Hiring companies include Anthropic, Assembled, and Ubisoft Montreal.

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10+

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Engineering Manager - Forecasting & Scheduling

Assembled

RemoteUSA or Canada

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Manager, Software Engineering, Search Discovery

22d

Cribl

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Network Engineering

1mo

Toast

RemoteUSA

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Lead Software Engineer, 3D Computer Vision (USA)

1mo

DroneDeploy

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Technical Director, Graphics (Unreal)

Ubisoft Montreal

OnsiteMontreal, Canada

85 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Technical Art Director (Unreal)

Ubisoft Montreal

OnsiteMontreal, Canada

85 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Tech Lead / Engineering Manager

Aurelian

OnsiteSeattle, USA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Project Engineer - Electrical U.K (Data Centres)

Ethos Engineering

HybridBirmingham, UK

65 · Good9 day fortnight

Engineering Manager - Forecasting & Scheduling

Assembled

OnsiteSan Francisco or New York City

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Development Lead – Guidewire Claim Centre

10d

QBE Insurance Group

HybridLondon or Leeds

71 · Great9 day fortnight

Engineering Manager, Continuous Deployment and Change Safety

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Engineering Manager, Notifications

2mo

Discord

HybridSan Francisco, USA

67 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$248k - $310k

Manager, Software Engineering Management - ITAM

ServiceNow

HybridSanta Clara, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Engineering Manager, Fern Docs

16d

Postman

HybridNew York, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$250k - $290k

Inference Specialist, Creative Technology

18d

Netflix

HybridLos Angeles, USA

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Engineering Manager

2mo

Suno

OnsiteBoston or New York City

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Engineering Manager I, Innovative Ad Formats

2mo

HybridSan Francisco or Palo Alto

59 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$183k - $320k

Engineering Manager

23d

PermitFlow

HybridNew York City, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Engineering Manager, Cybersecurity Products

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco or New York City

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$405k - $485k

Engineering Manager

2mo

Thinking Machines Lab

OnsiteSan Francisco, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO$400k - $500k

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Employers hiring for Technical Direction on this page include Anthropic, Assembled, and Ubisoft Montreal. Technical Direction 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 Technical Direction is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Technical Direction roles span the full seniority range — we list 20 open roles requiring Technical Direction 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 — Technical Direction 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. Technical Direction 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 Technical Direction 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 Technical Direction on current listings.