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Are you a digital nomad looking for the best online platforms to find remote work opportunities around the world? We’ve curated a list of some of the top sites that share remote work opportunities in a range of different sectors. These include work for engineers, developers, designers, programmers, creative artists, digital media managers, administrators, bookkeepers, civil engineers, and more.
Whether you’re an experienced digital nomad wanting to expand your sources of income or you’re contemplating a career as a digital nomad – our list below should provide some inspiration and fresh ideas.
We’ve divided the platforms below into 3 categories: dedicated remote job boards; tech-related remote work opportunities; and freelance or contract remote job boards.
Dedicated Remote Job Boards
These are job boards that exclusively list remote jobs, or have significant sections dedicated to remote work opportunities.
Nomadswork
Nomadswork.com is a job board website dedicated specifically to digital nomads. Their goal is to make remote work easier and more accessible for both workers and companies. New jobs are added daily, and you can subscribe to the weekly newsletter that sends you newly listed opportunities to your inbox.
The website is proud of its advanced search and superior UI/UX design. It is designed by digital nomads, with digital nomads in mind, so it can be a great place to look for digital nomad jobs.
We Work Remotely
We Work Remotely is a community for remote workers around the world. It boasts over 4.5 million visitors and an impressive number of advertised jobs. The job categories include things like programming, customer support, sales and marketing, management and finance, design, copywriting, DevOps and systems administration, and product-related jobs.
You’ll find a mix of contract and full-time positions, all of which are remote jobs. The site boasts that they fill about 90% of the jobs listed on their site.
Remote OK
If you’re a programmer, coder, or developer then you’re bound to find a variety of interesting and relevant remote job opportunities on Remote OK. There are also a few non-tech jobs posted on the jobs board including copywriting, marketing, and design jobs.
You don’t need to sign up to view jobs, and submitting applications is easy. The platform advertises over 25,000 positions for remote workers, digital nomads, and people who are keen to work from home from anywhere in the world.
FlexJobs
FlexJobs is the perfect place to start looking for remote, work-from-home, and flexible work opportunities. The platform boasts almost 50,000 jobs from over 5,600 companies and over 50 career categories to choose from. You can find a mix of full-time, part-time, freelance, remote, and flexible on-site positions on FlexJobs. Their expert team vets all positions and companies, to ensure optimal efficiency in your search for the perfect job.
Remote.Co
The team at Remote.Co hand curates their list of remote jobs to ensure you are only getting genuine remote roles. You can search by keyword or browse categories such as accounting, data entry, marketing, project management, teaching, and virtual assistant. There is a good range of jobs listed beyond traditional tech roles.
Idealist
The Idealist doesn’t just list remote jobs, but you can filter so that you only receive remote listings. What makes the Idealist stand out is that it curates its list to share roles at organizations and non-profits that are committed to making a positive difference in the world. This means you can earn while feeling like you are doing good.
The Idealist have been around since 1995, so they are very well-established and know how to find the right jobs to share.
Remotive
Remotive helps anyone find remote jobs. It has an active jobs board that currently has more than 30,000 curated work-from-home jobs live on the site. The site also has lots of advanced search filters so you can narrow down to industries and company locations that interest you.
There are both free listings that are open to everyone, or you can subscribe for premium job listings, plus access to an AI career search, Slack community for remote works, and email alerts when new relevant opportunities become available.
Virtual Vocations
In response to the challenges that job-seekers face when looking for virtual work, Virtual Vocations was founded as a family-owned and operated business. The platform posts hand-screened remote job leads in more than 65 career categories. They have daily job alert emails, online storage for your C.V., and a convenient account management area that lets you save jobs that you’re interested in and track your job application history.
Working Nomads
Working Nomads is an online jobs board that curates remote jobs for digital nomads across a variety of professions. These include marketing, design, sales, education, finance, writing, and legal jobs. The signup process is free and easy.
Working Nomads is another freemium site that offers free job listings, but also exclusive job listings for members who subscribe to the site. These are jobs listed by partners that want to filter for the best possible candidates.
Workew
This hiring platform and jobs board is designed for people like digital nomads who have skills and talents that they can offer remotely. Whether you’re a developer, designer, writer, marketer or you’re into customer support – you’re likely to find a remote position on Workew.
Upload your resume to the site and you will get free job alters that match your skills and experience. You’ll find jobs with some of the biggest tech companies including Spotify, WordPress, and Mozilla.
DailyRemote
DailyRemote is a free to join community with more than 200,000 members that lists remote freelance and full-time positions, most of which are based in the USA. Their job categories focus on fields like software development, design, sales, writing, marketing, data entry, healthcare, recruitment, teaching, and others.
Just Remote
Just Remote is a remote job board with career categories including business, customer service, developer, design, marketing, recruitment and more. You can browse and search job listing or use their power search to find jobs that don’t get advertised. They say that they can offer this service by tracking down the 70% of vacancies that companies choose not to pay to advertise. There is a low, cancel anytime subscription fee for this service.
Career Vault
Career Vault is a large listing website with more than 1,800 companies producing 200 new listings every day. They are also good at taking down listings when they expire, so you don’t waste time on opportunities that have already been snapped up. They also have a free email list of you want the latest new opportunities to arrive in your inbox every day.
Pangian
Pangian is both a website with remote job listings and a recruitment agency that both headhunts and helps remote workers find growth opportunities. They have a service called Remote Work Academy that helps you learn to become one of the 2% that get interviewed for most remote jobs.
Skip the Drive
Skip the Drive does what it says, helps you find jobs that let you skip the commute and work from home, or from anywhere else in the world for that matter. Search or browse their 30,000 plus listings on a site. This is one of the listing sites that is genuinely free and also doesn’t act as a middleman. When you find a listing that you are interested in, apply directly with the firm.
Jobspresso
Jobspresso is a curated list of hand-picked, manually reviewed, and expertly curated remote jobs. Search and browse by category or post your resume for companies to view. They also send out daily job updates on Twitter and Facebook if those are your preferred methods for keeping up to date.
Remote in Europe
While most job sites focus on companies in the US offering remote positions, which means you may need permission to work in the US to apply, Remote in Europe focuses on European opportunities. You can search and brose jobs, get a weekly email with new opportunities, and take advantage of tools like the European CV builder, since different countries have different formatting preferences.
ProBlogger
Many digital nomads are involved in some aspect of blogging. ProBlogger is a website that lists a range of remote blogging jobs around the world, from copywriting, ghostwriting, social media management, influencer outreach, and web development to virtual assistants and SEO consultants. It is a very simple platform, but if you write for a living, you can find new opportunities daily.
Tech-Related Remote Work Opportunities
These job boards focus on tech-related professions and either exclusively list remote opportunities or share a lot of good remote jobs.
AngelList
AngelList connects startups, angel investors and job seekers who are keen to work at startups. Signing up is free and easy – you create a profile, apply for jobs and hopefully hear back from employers. Not all of the jobs posted are remote, so you’ll have to select that as a requirement when searching, but there are a good number of jobs suited to digital nomads. It does have a US focus, with many jobs requiring you to have permission to work in the US to be eligible to apply.
Arc
Arc is a remote job board created specifically for developers, though it has recently expanded to include design and marketing. They aim to match candidates with opportunities the first time, so they vet candidates for domain expertise and English fluency before recommending them for interview. Arc is good for new developers with a listing page just for junior roles and internships. It also manages a mentorship program that connects new talent with established professionals.
GitHub
GitHub is a development platform where developers and companies around the world, build and maintain their software. Despite the fact that it’s not a remote jobs marketplace, it does actually have a good jobs board for those in the software development and coding sector, and features quite a lot of remote positions.
Dribble
If you’re a creative or designer and you’re looking for remote work to support your digital nomad lifestyle, then Dribble is worth checking out. This social networking platform showcases jobs across a variety of creative niches including animation, branding, illustration, print, typography and product design. The Dribble jobs board posts many remote friendly jobs around the world and you can view and apply for them without having to sign up or login.
Built-In
Built-In offers jobs listings for startups and tech companies. While they don’t just list remote jobs, there are a lot of remote options in the sector, and you can filter for remote positions. They also provide handy features like a list of tech companies that are fully remote, information on current tech and startup salaries, and insights into what it is like to work for some of these companies for real employees.
PowerToFly
This company is on a mission to empower underrepresented talent by upskilling and connecting people to jobs and employers. They also host virtual events that aim to boost skills and employability. The PowerToFly jobs board is extensive and features a range of remote jobs in skill areas like marketing, quality assurance, software engineering, design, and civil engineering.
Authentic Jobs
Authentic Jobs is a jobs board for designers, creatives, and developers looking for opportunities. You can filter for remote or hybrid roles. As well as sharing openings at some top firms, the site offers interesting tools such as a resume generator and salary calculator. This helps both employees and talent decide what is a fair market rate for their work.
Otta
Otta isn’t for people just looking for a job, it is for people looking for a calling. They select only the most relevant roles at the most exciting startups to list on their job board. But that doesn’t mean it is a small board, they have 70,000 live jobs from 3,500 to companies.
Otta also recommends roles based on your skills and experience and uses AI to give you feedback on how to evolve to qualify for your next dream job. The more you interact with the site, the better the feedback. Look for both in-person and remote opportunities.
Remote in Tech
Remote in Tech isn’t a jobs board, but rather a searchable list of companies in the tech industry that offer remote jobs. When you find companies that interest you, link through to their dedicated job boards to see if there is anything for you, and set up alerts to let you know when new relevant opportunities get listed.
6nomads
6nomads is a niche remote jobs platform for people skilled in a variety of tech fields, including product designers, front-end engineers, iOS engineers, android engineers, game developers, QA engineers, and DevOps or SRE engineers. There are a few prerequisites to getting accepted onto the platform: you’ll need to solve a programming quiz, take a coding challenge, record a 3-minute video and then once your profile is complete you can start receiving job offers. You’ll also need to have at least 3 years of experience, be proficient in English, have a profile on Github, GitLab or Bitbucket, and have a linkedin CV.
Freelance and Contract Remote Job Boards
If you prefer to work as a freelancer or contractor and you are looking for new clients, these are the best resources for finding new projects.
Upwork
Upwork is a global remote jobs marketplace, that is one of the largest and most established platforms. Millions of jobs are posted on the platform each year in over 70 job categories. There’s no fee to join UpWork as a freelancer, but they do charge a commission on total earnings.
The types of jobs posted include opportunities related to SEO, social media management, content writing, graphic design, personal assistants, and translation services. Freelancers can view available jobs and then submit bids on the ones they’re interested in applying for.
Fiverr
Fiverr is an online platform that lists jobs at set rates (no hourly rates). This jobs marketplace offers hundreds of digital services and is suited to people working in graphics and design, digital marketing, writing and translation, voice and animation, music and audio, programming and tech, and data. You’ll need to create a specialized profile on Fiverr of all your skills and rates and then wait for companies to approach you for work offers.
Freelancer.com
Freelancer is one of the world’s biggest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplaces and connects over 51 million companies and freelancers in over 240 countries and regions. There were a wapping 22.2 million jobs posted on the site in 2023 alone, which shows the sheer size and connectedness of this platform. Freelancers create profiles, bid for jobs, and are charged commission on their earnings.
Toptal
If you’re looking for a network that works with the top freelancers in the world, then Toptal is your solution. It targets software developers, finance experts, product managers, project managers, and designers from over 120 countries globally. The most in-demand jobs on the platform include iOS developers, front-end developers, UX and UI designers, financial modelling consultants, interim CFOs, and digital project managers.
The name Toptal was created from combining the words “top”and “talent”. The company’s mission is to source the top talent – and from the thousands of applications they receive, they generally only approve about 3 percent at most. So if you’re at the top of your game, consider applying to have your profile added to Toptal.
Idealist
Idealist is a large online network of people and organisations working mostly in the nonprofit sector. They have a jobs board that lists some remote jobs, internships, and volunteer positions. There are a good selection of international jobs posted on the platform. Although many of the positions are remote, you’ll need to check that remote working is an option.
Outsourcely
Outsourcely was founded in 2014 and since then has attracted over 400,000 remote workers from over 180 countries who use its platform. It connects talented, remote workers who are skilled in the following fields: design and media, web development, mobile applications, writing and content creation, administrative support, customer service, sales and marketing, and business services.
The platform also provides tools for effective real-time communication like instant messaging, voice and video messaging, and video interviewing.
99 Designs
If you’re a graphic designer and you’re keen to fund your travels while working remotely around the world, then 99designs may be your go-to solution. Clients looking for jobs post contests, designers apply, and someone gets hired. You can also work directly with clients through the platform. Since it started in 2008, 99 Designs has sparked over a million creative projects.
FreelancerMap
FreelancerMap lists open projects looking for freelancers to fill gaps in their team. There are currently more than 11,000 projects active on the site. You don’t just search and apply for global remote jobs, the platform will suggest new opportunities as they become available, and also bring your CV to the attention of employers.
Gun.io
Gun.io is for freelance web developers looking for temporary roles. Sign up through GitHub with an active account and you will be vetted by senior developers, not AI. They then personally match talent with opportunities, ensuring you only interview for relevant roles.
Final thoughts on job platforms for digital nomads
While you might already have a consistent lineup of work from one or multiple employers, it’s always good to have a back-up plan in place in case your work dries up. Some of the remote work platforms mentioned above list jobs that you can easily apply for, while others rely on you creating specialized profiles and getting rated for your services.
The latter requires an initial effort to get your profile ready for receiving job offers. So if you know you’re going to want to use those platforms in future, it may be worth getting started now with setting up your profile and getting a bit of experience using them.
If you’re looking for new sources of income as a digital nomad, then you might want to look at each of these platforms and see which one best suits your skills, your geographic eligibility, and your work timeframes. And last but not least, you should also consider looking for remote jobs on LinkedIn, which has lots of useful resources to help you find your ideal work from home jobs.
