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User Research Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 168+ user research jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 20 new this week. Hiring companies include Version 1, Samsara, and Esri.

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4-day weeks 9
generous PTO 15
flexible hours 16
unlimited PTO 56
best places to work 67

Updated August 23, 2026

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UX/UI Digital Designer

1mo

Steadfast Collective · Remote · UK

95 · Excellent4 Day Work Week£34k – £42k

Senior Technical Product Manager

4mo

Simprints · Remote · UK

93 · Excellent4 Day Work Week£60k – £70k

Senior Product Designer, Mobile

1mo

Kickstarter · Remote · New York, NY, USA

89 · Excellent4 Day Work Week$158k

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Senior Product Designer

PVcase · Remote · Spain +2 more

66 · GoodSummer Fridays€56k – €96k

Director of UX

Routeware · Remote · USA

65 · GoodSummer Fridays

Staff Product Designer

Ashby · Remote · USA or Canada

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO$180k – $240k

Senior Product Designer

Ashby · Remote · USA or Canada

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO$150k – $210k

Staff UX Software Engineer

Sonatype · Remote · Colombia

60 · GoodBest Place to Work

Head of Design (North America/Europe)

17d

Hospitable · Remote · Oregon, USA

73 · GreatGenerous PTO$158k – $202k

Product Designer

UpGuard · Remote · Australia

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

Product Designer II, Design Systems

10d

Coinbase · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$145k – $170k

UX/UI Designer

1mo

P360 · Remote · India

69 · GoodCompressed Work Week

Senior Product Designer, Proposals

19d

Roofr · Remote · Canada

68 · GoodRotating 4 Day Week$130k – $150k

Technical Product Lead

3mo

Metabase · Remote · Worldwide

65 · GoodFlexible Hours$102k – $200k

Product Designer

3mo

Metabase · Remote · Worldwide

65 · GoodFlexible Hours$93k – $210k

Product Associate

3mo

Colonist · Remote · Serbia +4 more

65 · GoodFlexible Hours

Product Manager, Wallet

29d

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours

Product Manager, Services

1mo

Airbnb · Remote · San Francisco, CA +2 more

64 · GoodFlexible Hours

Product Manager, Identity

1mo

Airbnb · Remote · USA

64 · GoodFlexible Hours

Sr. Product Designer

1mo

Benepass · Remote · USA

64 · GoodUnlimited PTO$140k – $160k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for User Research on this page include Version 1, Samsara, and Esri. 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 188 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.

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. 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 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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Browse 168+ user research jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 20 new this week. Hiring companies include Version 1, Samsara, and Esri.

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