MOBLHOM’s Ultimate Remote Work List
For many, working remotely has meant achieving the work-life balance dream. But living in perfect harmony with the comfort and convenience of home surrounding has seemed somewhat out of reach… However, the dream of working from home has quickly turned into a necessity. The post-pandemic future concept of working from home (or anywhere really) is being adopted by companies looking to hire more than ever.
Job hunting itself is pretty grueling and the internet itself can be a deeep rabbit hole. We get it. So whether you’re someone looking for a career change, a stay-at-home-parent picking up a side gig, furloughed talent ready to pivot, or a digital nomad seeing what’s out there, we wrangled together a thorough list for finding remote work.
With that, we encourage you to take the job-hunt-edge off by clicking through these job boards in your house coat (aka robe). We’re big advocates of the house coat and believe it’s time to welcome it into the fold as the new go-to WFH attire. Who’s with us?
Remote-only job boards:
FLEXJOBS
FlexJobs has over 50 remote jobs categories, with positions ranging from freelance gigs, to part-time work, to full-time jobs, with remote careers varying from entry-level to executive. The best part? FlexJobs screens their jobs before posting, so you don’t have to dig through any less than reputable opportunities. The virtual job board currently hosts more than 20,000 work-at-home and digital nomad job postings.
REMOTE.CO
Remote.co hand-curates their list of remote jobs. These listings include customer service positions, design opportunities, developer jobs, recruiter and HR roles, sales jobs, and other remote work (including writers, managers, and marketers). Remote.co’s virtual job board also has the handy feature of allowing you to search or browse by job type.
JUSTREMOTE
JustRemote is dedicated to building a better remote job platform, allowing job seekers to find their perfect role quickly and easily. JustRemote covers many job verticals including Development, Marketing and Design, HR, and Customer Success positions. You can filter roles by location, and their virtual job board clearly highlights whether positions have specific country or time overlap requirements.
VIRTUAL VOCATIONS
Virtual Vocations’ jobs board features telecommuting positions in job fields like technical writing and paralegal. The site was started by a stay-at-home mom who was frustrated with a lack of legitimate remote job listings online, and today the company is run by an entirely remote team. In addition to their jobs board, the site’s blog has great tips, including this article on how to pick up a seasonal remote gig during the holidays.
WE WORK REMOTELY
With a simple, straightforward layout, this virtual job board is a catch-all of remote, work from home jobs from customer service, to web design, to programming. Living up to their stated goal of ”finding the most qualified people in the most unexpected place,” the We Work Remotely site connects over 130,000 monthly users with telecommuting opportunities. It’s your ticket to remote employment in no time.
REMOTIVE
Remotive is a bi-monthly newsletter for job seekers interested in working remotely. In addition to news about how to get hired at remote jobs and tips on life as a digital nomad, the newsletter also has a robust listing of remote positions. Remotive’s job listings are broken down by job type — sales, support, product engineering, marketing, etc. — making it easy to find the specific kind of job you’re looking for.
REMOTE OK
Remote OK is a remote job site that tags all of their job listings, making it simple and easy to set filters for the specific listings you want. You can choose to filter jobs posted by recruiters, by experience level (junior, senior, etc.), by job type (sales, marketing, design, dev, and more), and even whether they’re tech or non-tech related jobs (of course even the “non-tech” jobs — things like analysts and marketers — will benefit from some basic tech skills).
WORKING NOMADS
Working Nomads is a newsletter serviced dedicated to busy digital nomads. When you sign up for the service, Working Nomads will then deliver a curated list of remote jobs directly to your inbox. You can choose daily or weekly emails, then keep moving to the next city while the telecommuting job search comes to you.
JOBSCRIBE
Jobscribe is a site that sends out daily emails to job seekers with remote job listings at tech startups. Web designers, web developers, mobile app designers, and digital marketers can specify their focus and receive listings for corresponding remote and work-from-home positions.
WFH.IO
Wfh.io focuses exclusively on remote digital and tech jobs. They include remote jobs in product management, software engineering, web engineering, customer support, marketing, and more.
OUTSOURCELY
Outsourcely pairs up remote workers with employers seeking both full and part-time employees. You can browse for jobs by category: design & multimedia, web development, writing & content, customer service, sales & marketing, and more.
Tech-related job boards with remote options:
POWERTOFLY
PowerToFly is a dream come true for female job seekers interested in working remotely. PowerToFly focuses on matching women in tech with remote and work-from-home jobs. If you join the site’s talent database, you’ll then go through a vetting process and get matched for a paid trial (a 2–4 week test period) with a potential employer. The site was started by two tech-savvy moms who were dedicate to making other women’s digital nomad dreams a reality, and PowerToFly continues that mission today.
LANDING.JOBS
While Landing Jobs doesn’t have a huge section of their tech job opportunities dedicated to working remotely, they do carefully curate their listings. As a bonus perk — unlike many job boards — their site allows you to filter your search for jobs that are either fully remote, partially remote, or even remote within physical commuting distance.
AUTHENTIC JOBS
Authentic Jobs bills itself as the “the job board for web professionals.” While its position listings aren’t remote specific, working remotely is common in tech, which means you’ll find plenty of remote listings here. Just click the “wireless logo” the site uses for its jobs search and then filter by remote jobs. This is a beautifully designed and easy to use virtual job board, reflective of its focus on providing job opportunities for web designers and web developers.
DRIBBBLE
Dribbble is most often known as a pillar site for freelance web designers to share their portfolios and find their next gig — but it has a lesser known jobs listing feature, too. There’s a location tab on top of the screen where you can click “remote / anywhere” and then be off to the races finding your next work-from-home gig.
ANGELLIST
Have you always dreamed of working for a tech startup, but don’t live in a tech hub? That’s the beauty of working remotely — it doesn’t matter! If you head over to AngelList — a top source for startup job listings — you can enter a for a job search and click “Remote OK” when you’re prompted for your search type. Then — tech hub or not — you can find a startup that’s right for you.
STACK OVERFLOW
Stack Overflow is a go-to source for web development Q&A, but it also has a jobs board with listings for tech positions (especially web developers). Enter “remote” in the location field when you go to search, and you’ll bring up a list of more than 2,000 work-from-home and digital nomad jobs that fit the bill.
GITHUB JOBS
GitHub is another hotbed of web development activity — web developers use GitHub as a repository from projects they’re working on where they can share code, questions, and discovers with other programmers. But, like Stack Overflow, it also has a job’s board, including an entire category devoted to remote jobs. Because it’s GitHub, the jobs are web development-focused, with remote listings from all over the world. GitHub even posts their own job openings on this board.
Remote freelance and contract jobs
TOPTAL BUSINESS
Toptal Business focuses on connecting business consultants with freelance corporate engagements. As a consultant, you can choose to only focus on remote work, and you can be choosy about working on projects (and with clients) you are passionate about. Whether you bring e-mail marketing expertise to the table, or you’re a whiz at building financial models, the Toptal Business site and model is both digital nomad and freelance friendly.
FIVERR
With jobs starting at just $5 a pop, Fiverr is an handy site for finding your first freelance gigs and building up a portfolio fast. The Fiverr site focuses on “gigs” or “micro-jobs,” like editing an image in Photoshop, designing a Facebook ad, or brainstorming SEO-rank-worthy article titles. You can also add any specific skills or credentials you have to your listings, allowing you to make a lot more than $5 on each job.
UPWORK
Upwork features freelance remote job listings in a suite of categories: things like virtual assistants, mobile app developers, and copywriters. Companies like Zendesk, Dropbox, and Airbnb use the site to hire remote freelancers, so if you’re ready to start doing freelance work for some major clients without having to set foot in an office, create your Upwork profile ASAP.
FREELANCER.COM
Freelancer.com claims to be “The World’s Largest Outsourcing Marketplace,” and it’s chock full of remote freelancing gigs. With over 13 million users, it features freelance jobs for PHP developers, content writers, and web designers alike. All you need to do is make a profile, and then you’re able to start bidding on jobs.
FREELANCERMAP.COM
FreelancerMap allows users to search thousands of active IT projects looking for remote, freelance team members. The site has a global reach, with projects currently listed on their front page from companies in the US, Australia, and the Czech Republic.
COWORKS
Coworks is a freelance work platform for creative job seekers (graphic designers, illustrators, web designers, etc). The site has connected over 2,000 clients with freelance work, catering to brands like Decathlon, Starcom, and BBH.
GUN.IO
Gun.io is a freelance platform designed for specifically for freelance web developers. You can sign up through GitHub (so make sure your GitHub profile is up to date and active), and they’ll help match you up with companies that need your services.
General interest sites – cast that wide net!
THE MUSE
With a gorgeous user interface and extensive information about all the companies and jobs they feature, The Muse makes remote job searching feel easy. In addition to being able to search the best remote job opportunities listed on the site, you can avail yourself of The Muse’s top notch content highlighting remote work opportunities and tips to get started.
INDEED
Indeed pulls job data from across the internet and around the world, making it one of the most robust job search engines going. As of this writing, an Indeed search for remote jobs yields over 2,000 listings across positions as varied as cruise ship staff, clean energy interns, and SEO experts.
CAREER BUILDER
The Career Builder jobs site claims to be the largest online employment website in the United States. Simply type in “telecommute” or “remote” as a keyword, and you’ll find more than 9,000 part-time, contract, and full-time jobs from brands like Forever 21 Inc, Xerox, and Univision.
IDEALIST
Idealist isn’t an exclusively remote job board, but it still has hundreds of remote job listings worldwide (just click on “Remote” under locations). The catch here is that all of these jobs are with organizations and nonprofits that are committed to making a positive difference in the world.
Resources for finding remote jobs (even during a pandemic)…
Still Hiring — Hamza Khchichine
Still Hiring is a searchable database of companies that are (you guessed it) still hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can sign up for a weekly newsletter to get updates on available roles.
Hiring Freezes — Candor
Hiring Freezes is a user-generated list of companies with and without hiring freezes, set up by salary negotiation company Candor. It’s being updated in real-time, and, at the time of writing, it had entries for over 4,000 companies.
WFH But Hiring — Free Agency
WFH But Hiring is a resource for hiring in tech during COVID-19. If you recently lost your job, you can list yourself as looking for work. You can also browse available jobs in engineering, product, marketing, and more.
Remote Work Jobs Portal — Remote Work Summit
Remote Work Summit put together this resource hub for information on companies currently offering remote work, sites for finding remote work, and freelance gigs available.
Creative Community x Covid — Becky Simpson of Chipper Things
Designer Becky Simpson (creator of Chipper Things) set up this resource for designers, illustrators, and others in the creative community. It includes links to job boards, hiring resources, and useful Twitter threads, plus a creatives for hire page where you can add yourself to the list.
The Corona Hiring Sheet — Florian Feichtinger & Paula Monteiro
This is a job listing resource (focusing mostly on jobs in Western Europe) set up in a Google Sheet. You can list yourself if you’re looking for work, peruse jobs and freelance gig listings, and check out related resources.
Have another resource for finding remote work? Let us know and we’ll add it to the list.
