Updated May 25, 2026

117 open positions

User Research Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 117+ user research jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and generous PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 21 new this week.

Hiring companies include Duolingo, Spotify, and Behaviour. Schedules on offer include unlimited PTO, generous PTO, and flexible hours.

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Senior Product Manager, Growth

27d

Kickstarter

RemoteUSA or UK

4 day week (100% pay)$155k

Senior Product Designer

Owner.com

RemoteUSA or Canada

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Product Designer

1mo

Ghost

RemoteWorldwide

4 day week (100% pay)$100k - $180k

UX Researcher

rtCamp

RemoteWorldwide

5 day weekVery Flexible

Senior Product Designer

RevenueCat

RemoteSpain or South America

5 day weekVery Flexible

Staff Product Designer, Growth

Deel

RemoteEurope +4 more

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Product Designer - Accounting Systems

Mercury

RemoteCanada or USA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO$189k - $236k

Senior Product Manager - Sharing & Social

Spotify

RemoteSweden

5 day weekGenerous PTO

Host Communications Strategy Lead

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

5 day weekVery Flexible

Group Product Manager I, Connections

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Product Designer - Advertising

12d

Spotify

RemoteUSA

5 day weekGenerous PTO

Product Designer

14d

Metabase

RemoteWorldwide

5 day weekVery Flexible

Senior Product Designer

14d

Automattic

RemoteWorldwide

5 day weekVery Flexible$95k - $200k

Product Associate

16d

Colonist

RemotePoland +4 more

5 day weekVery Flexible

Senior UX Researcher

21d

GitLab

RemoteCanada +6 more

5 day weekVery Flexible

Technical Ex-Founder

1mo

PostHog

RemoteUSA

5 day weekVery Flexible

Staff Product Designer, Knowledge Graph

1mo

GitLab

RemoteCanada +6 more

5 day weekVery Flexible$165k - $200k

UX/UI Designer

15d

The Agile Monkeys

RemoteSpain

5 day weekVery Flexible

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How we curate this list

We track companies that publicly offer reduced-hours schedules — 4-day weeks, 9-day fortnights, half-day Fridays, and more. This page refreshes daily; companies that drop the policy are removed. Read about our editorial standards →

Last reviewed: May 25, 2026

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Employers hiring for User Research on this page include Duolingo, Spotify, and Behaviour. User 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 User Research is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

User Research roles span the full seniority range — we list 118 open roles requiring User 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 — User 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.

Yes — companies listed on 4dayweek.io commit to full salary parity regardless of schedule. User Research roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers. Specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and the specific 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 User 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 User Research on current listings.

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