Remote operations jobs
Operations roles from live listings, each one labelled with where the employer says you can be based.
Covers remote operations manager, business operations, revenue operations, people operations, operations coordinator and chief of staff roles.
267
live operations roles
35
found in the last day
Where you can actually work from
Most job boards call all of these simply "remote". These are the live counts for operations roles right now.
- Work from home193
- Region Restricted38
- Undisclosed22
- Hybrid11
- Work from anywhere3
What remote operations jobs pay
Typically $154k a year, with the middle half between $118k and $195k. Based on 139 live listings that publish a salary in US dollars.
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Where employers say you have to live
The places most often named in live operations adverts that restrict residence. Counted from the advert’s own wording.
- United States 30
- Remote - US 9
- Remote, United States 6
- San Francisco 6
- United Kingdom 5
- Remote US 5
- New York, NY (HQ) 5
- United States - Remote 5
- New York 5
- India 4
Seniority mix
Read from the employer’s own job titles. Titles with no seniority word are not counted, so these will not add up to 267.
- Entry level1
- Junior12
- Senior44
- Lead / principal125
- Head / director15
Working hours
115 live operations adverts say something about hours, and 14 of those describe working asynchronously. The rest say nothing, which usually means normal hours in the employer’s own timezone, worth asking before you accept.
Employers hiring most right now
- Headway11 roles
- Samsara10 roles
- Instructure6 roles
- Twilio6 roles
- GitLab5 roles
- OpenAI5 roles
- Ramp5 roles
- Remote5 roles
- Affirm4 roles
- Alan4 roles
- Dropbox4 roles
- Float4 roles
How to spot a legit remote operations job
Most bad remote-job experiences are not scams, they are honest listings that were vague about location, or filled weeks ago. These are the checks worth running before you apply.
- Does the listing say where you can live?
- A real employer names the countries, regions or timezones they can hire in, because employment law forces them to. A listing that says only "remote" and nothing else is the most common reason people waste an application.
- Is there a named company behind it?
- Legitimate roles name the employer and link to their own careers page. Anonymous listings, or ones that only reveal the company after you pay or sign up, are the clearest warning sign there is.
- Are you ever asked for money?
- No genuine employer charges for training, equipment, a background check or a starter kit. Any request for payment, cryptocurrency or bank details before a signed contract is a scam, without exception.
- Does the pay match the work?
- Very high pay for very little skill is the oldest trick in the book. Compare the figure against what the same role actually pays elsewhere before taking it seriously.
- Was the interview real?
- Being hired purely over a chat app, with no video call and no questions about your experience, is not a hiring process. Reshipping, payment-processing and "buy equipment with this cheque" roles all start this way.
- Is the listing still open?
- Boards are full of roles that closed months ago. Check that the employer's own careers page still shows it before spending an hour on an application.
Nomaders does the first and last of those checks for you: every listing is read for what the employer actually says about location, and re-checked every day so closed roles drop out. Browse the live roles.
Remote operations jobs: common questions
Are operations jobs remote?
Software and service companies run operations remotely as standard. Operations tied to a warehouse, office or physical site is the exception, and those show up as hybrid or on-site rather than remote.
What counts as an operations job?
It is a broad family, business operations, revenue operations, people operations, sales operations and general operations management. They share the same skill of making a company run more smoothly, so all sit on this page.
Are there entry level remote operations jobs?
Yes. Operations coordinator and associate roles are a common entry point into remote work, since they value organisation and clear writing over years of experience.
What do remote operations jobs pay?
The spread is large between coordinator and head of operations. Figures on this page are drawn only from live listings that publish a salary.
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How Nomaders checks these roles
Listings are collected from employers' own career pages and remote job boards every day. Each one is read for what the employer actually says about location, and labelled accordingly, a role is only called work from anywhere when the listing says so in plain words. Nothing on this page is estimated.
What "remote" actually means