The OffBeat #43: Call Sheet | OffBeat-Approved Job Listings
Marketing, comms, creative, engineering, finance & HR roles
Job searching, even if you’re currently employed, is one of the most stressful life experiences. The stakes are high—your livelihood! your access to health insurance! your day-to-day wellbeing!—and you get so little time and space to properly show who you are via a static resume and a handful of 45-minute Zoom conversations. If you identify as any kind of minority group, the stakes are even higher.
One small way to peel off the top layer of job search anxiety is to have some externally validated degree of confidence that the company you’re interviewing with is one of the “good” ones. Of course it’s hard to generalize—I’ve worked at companies that don’t have a great culture rep but I LOVED my boss and team—but often, reputations are well-deserved.
Below, I’ve assembled a list of OffBeat-approved listings for job postings at companies I can personally vouch for (again with the caveat that every team has its own micro-culture; you also know best what work environment is best for you), or have secondhand endorsement of from people I admire and trust.
Eligibility requirements for The OffBeat stamp of approval:
No 5-day/week in-office mandate
Diverse executive leadership team
Benefits that support families of all kinds
These roles are all manager and up, full-time, and they’re all U.S.-based, across a variety of markets. In many cases I plucked out one or two jobs but the company is hiring more. A few of these I have personal connections at, so feel free to reply with your resume and a few bullets about why you’re a great fit if you’d like an intro.
Also just a note that often the most compelling roles aren’t posted publicly (yet or at all—this is regulated by industry), or you may not have self-selected even if they are, so always accept outreach from recruiters. I do so even when I’m not open to new work, just to network and, if anything, to help connect job-searching friends and former colleagues with great opportunities.
Below, this month’s OffBeat-approved job listings: