In 2024, a “remote job” is basically always some form of white-collar tech position. And given the last few years’ worth of tech layoff bloodbaths, the remote job search is now a grueling months-long process.
How can you stand out from the pack? The best method is to lean into your network and find someone who knows someone. The second best method is to figure out a way to apply to jobs that’s just a little off the well-beaten path offered by major job search boards like Indeed and LinkedIn, where every job opening is swamped with hundreds of applicants.
This might look like setting up the right Google search alerts or scouring the web for job openings on each company’s personalized account. But it might also look like finding Goldilocks-zone job boards that handle fully remote positions: Job-search sources that are fairly well-known, but not 100% mainstream, and might give you a fighting chance.
Here, we’ve rounded up all the top remote job boards that you might not know about.
Jobspresso
This remote-only site boasts “hand-picked, manually reviewed and expertly curated” job positions, and it currently lists over a thousand of them. Jobs can be browsed by type of industry, with a handy “location” section visible from the search results page that lets you know what time zone you’ll be expected to work in, if hired.
Here are a few of the positions you might be looking at:
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Working Nomads
As the title suggests, this site is aimed at the digital nomad — a hustling worker who’s just as interested in traveling to exciting locales around the globe as they are in working at exciting remote-first companies. So, if you’re looking for an international job board, check them out.
Working Nomads offers a salary range for its job openings, which isn’t always guaranteed for a job board. It also stands out for its free job alerts newsletter, which sends a daily or weekly (you chose) email rounding up only the job categories relevant to you.
Some of the jobs you might land at Working Nomads include:
- Principal AI&ML Engineer at Realiste, Salary between $100-$300k
- Sr. Software Engineer – EPP Product, Cloud at CrowdStrike, Inc., Salary between $130k-$205k
- Operations Analyst at Anzen, Salary between $85k-$125k
Built In
This job search board is focused on startups and tech companies, with an entire section dedicated to remote positions, even though the board also has plenty of in-person gigs.
Some positions may be listed as both remote and hybrid at the same time, which may mean that you’ll be nudged towards some in-office days alongside your remote ones. But as long as you’re in tech, this board will turn up plenty of entirely remote positions across any industry you could be interested in. And, since tech companies need plenty of sales people, HR workers, and marketers, this board lists lots of roles that you won’t need to personally own a STEM degree to fill.
A few positions currently open at the site:
- Staff UX Designer at Wonders, Salary between $200k-$250k
- Senior Human Resources Business Partner at General Motors, Salary between $83,800-$133,900
- Software Engineer – Zero Trust Client at Cloudflare, Salary between $168k-$240k
Skip the Drive
Of course a job board named “Skip the Drive” is going to deliver plenty of remote-focused positions that can help you drop that annoying and unpaid commute for good.
This board doesn’t always offer salary ranges, but it does have some helpful remote-focused categories. for example, you can browse through bilingual positions, which will appeal to any digital nomads with language skills, and you can look through a category dedicated to consulting positions as well.
A few listings you might run into:
Remotive
This job board offers an email newsletter that can help the latest job postings come to you. Jobs are listed by tags as well as general categories, allowing you to search by your favorite skill, subject, or area, with tags covering everything from “2d animation” to “scrum” to “machine learning.”
You can also pick a non-US location to look for remote positions in, with categories that include the UK, Germany, Canada, and Poland.
Some positions you might be interested in:
- Senior Independent Software Developer at A.Team, Salary between $90-$150 per hour
- Manager, External Communications at Skillsoft, Salary around $125k
- Office Assistant at Coalition Technologies, Salary between $30k -$52k
DailyRemote
This site offers a broad swath of remote positions, from full-time to part-time to freelance, with jobs categorized by country and salary range as well as job title. The website also offers a paid plan for job seekers that says it will deliver “remote opportunities you won’t get anywhere on the internet” for plans that start at $7 per month.
You can stick to the free version instead, however, and still get a fine handful of recently-posted opportunities like these:
Remote OK
Just like Remotive, Remote OK’s site supports tags that help you locate positions in need of the skillsets that you can offer. The brightly colored interface is a fun one to browse through, with categories that include less-common options like Crypto alongside standard options like HTML or Ruby centric jobs.
If salary ranges are left off of a job posting, potential ranges are estimated by Remote OK itself. A few of the job openings you might spot on this site:
- Remote Rails Frontend & Backend Wizard at VIVA, Salary between $60k-$100k
- Remote Senior Product Designer at LeafLink, Salary between $70k-$110k
- Remote Private Client Advisor at NOBI, Salary between $75k-$165k
JustRemote
Like DailyRemote, this site offers a paid plan starting at $6 per month that promises to reveal unseen job positions. However, it offers plenty of job positions to those who won’t pay up, as well. There’s a Quick Reply option, even for free, which speeds up the process — although it might also prompt more applicants, potentially burying your own effort.
Here are a few examples of open positions at JustRemote:
We Work Remotely
One of the biggest sites on this list, We Work Remotely has been around since 2013, with thousands of remote job postings to chose from.
This site also lets you in on how many applicants have applied for each job through the website, giving you a handy snapshot of your competition. That competition varies widely depending on the position itself: One highly technical opening that we looked at had 8 applicants, while the content writing position listed below had 7,523 applicants.
Here are a few of the jobs that are currently posted on the website:
- Remote Hands-On Head of Marketing (SaaS) at FeedOtter, Salary around $100k or more
- Remote Content Writer at Groove, Salary between $50k-$75k
- Remote VP of Marketing at LeadSimple, Inc., no salary listed
Otta
The job site Otta is dedicated to tech companies, but it goes a little deeper than that: It’s aimed at showcasing “only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies” and startups around. And any exciting tech company worth its salt will offer remote positions, making this job site one of the best ways for tech workers to track down remote positions without actually billing itself as a remote-only job board like many of the options above.
When you visit the site, you’ll be given a quick “initial preferences” quiz that helps Otta set you up with the most relevant openings, and “remote” is an option to pick when they ask which locations you’ll be open to. All remote positions are US-based, and they’ll also ask if you require a work visa or not.
Here are a few samples of the positions currently open at Otta:
- Intelligence Analyst at Red Canary, Salary between $100.2-122.7k
- Data Specialist at Crunchbase, Salary between $65-90k
- Solutions Associate at YipitData, Salary between $85-100k
Honorable Mention: Remote in Tech
Finally, we’d be remiss not to point you towards Remote in Tech, a website that isn’t actually a job board. Instead, it operates a lengthy list of companies in the tech industry that are known to be remote-friendly. They may be hiring, and they may not be.
If the above job boards aren’t turning up any results, you could try picking out all your favorite, most relevant companies from this website’s listings. By setting up individual Google alerts for job openings at these companies, you might wind up being the first or even the only person to apply to a job opening that hasn’t yet been listed on any job-aggregating website, small or large.
