This Week in Remote Work: Remote jobs are not disappearing — but they are getting more competitive. Only 4% of new job postings analyzed in Q1 2026 were fully remote, even as FlexJobs reported a 20% jump in remote job postings during the same quarter, which means job seekers need to move faster and apply smarter when good listings appear.
Admin/VA Jobs
Remote location: Remote USA
Pay: $31–$47/hour
Why it’s a good fit: This is a part-time remote assistant role, which makes it a strong option for readers looking for flexible admin work without jumping into a full-time corporate role. The listing was published May 17, so it’s fresh.
Application tip: Since the listing is light on details, applicants should make their resume very clear on scheduling, inbox/calendar support, follow-through, and confidentiality.
Remote location: Remote Philippines / South Africa
Pay: $1,000/month
Why it’s a good fit: This is a VA-style role with accounting tools called out directly in the title, making it a good fit for someone with basic bookkeeping/admin experience. It was published May 15 and is full-time remote.
Application tip: Highlight any experience with QuickBooks Online, Ramp, Gusto, invoicing, expense tracking, or financial admin — even if it was freelance or for a small business.
Remote location: Remote within GMT-6 to GMT-4 time zones
Pay: $2–$4/hour
Why it’s a good fit: This full-time healthcare support role is a fit for someone with strong communication, organization, and patient service skills. The position involves helping coordinate patient care and communicating professionally with patients and other parties involved in their cases.
Application tip: Highlight experience in patient support, medical office administration, appointment coordination, or customer service. Emphasize empathy, attention to detail, clear phone and email communication, and your ability to handle sensitive patient information professionally.
Customer Support / Customer Experience
Remote location: Remote USA
Pay: $23–$27/hour
Why it’s a good fit: This is a junior/mid-level support role using Zendesk and Slack, which are common tools in remote customer support. The role asks for 2+ years of remote customer support experience, so it’s best for readers who already have some support background.
Where to apply: Welcome to the Jungle listing.
Application tip: Mention remote support experience, Zendesk familiarity, and examples of resolving customer issues clearly and calmly.
Remote location: Remote USA; must be located in the Eastern or Central time zone
Pay: $77,500 base salary; $150,000–$155,000 OTE, plus stock options
Why it’s a good fit: This junior/mid-level sales role is a strong fit for someone with at least two years of sales experience and a track record of meeting or exceeding quotas. You’ll manage full-cycle deals, demonstrate the company’s 401(k) platform, build a sales pipeline, negotiate contracts, and track activity in Salesforce.
Application tip: Highlight examples of exceeding sales quotas, closing deals with small businesses, managing fast-moving sales cycles, and overcoming customer objections. Mention Salesforce or CRM experience and include measurable sales results whenever possible.
Remote location: Remote North America
Pay: $17–$23/hour
Why it’s a good fit: This is one of the clearest beginner-friendly picks this week because it is specifically email support, full-time, remote, and recently posted on May 18. It’s ideal for readers who are stronger writers than phone-support people.
Application tip: Lead with written support skills, inbox management, response accuracy, and any experience helping customers through email or ticketing tools.
Operations / Coordinator Roles
Remote location: Remote USA
Pay: $20–$25/hour
Why it’s a good fit: This is one of the best beginner-friendly operations picks because the listing says no prior SaaS experience is required. It focuses on email deliverability, Salesforce cases, SendGrid admin work, logs, and clear written communication.
Application tip: Highlight detail-oriented admin work, case tracking, email troubleshooting, documentation, and any experience following repeatable processes.
Remote location: Remote USA or North America; requires approximately 50% travel
Pay: $55,000–$70,000/year
Why it’s a good fit: Despite the “associate” title, this role is best suited to an experienced customer success professional with at least five years of experience in customer success, account management, SaaS, or technology. You’ll onboard and train customers, provide ongoing support, encourage product adoption, reduce customer churn, and identify opportunities to expand existing accounts.
Application tip: Highlight experience managing SaaS customer relationships, leading onboarding or training sessions, improving retention, and resolving customer issues. Include measurable examples of increasing adoption, reducing churn, or expanding accounts, and make it clear that you’re comfortable traveling frequently.
Remote location: Remote within GMT-8 to GMT-4 time zones
Why it’s a good fit: This remote contract role is a good fit for an organized professional interested in supporting a sales team behind the scenes. It may appeal to readers with experience in administrative support, sales coordination, CRM management, lead tracking, or keeping sales processes and records organized.
Application tip: Highlight experience maintaining CRM data, coordinating sales activities, tracking leads, preparing reports, and managing detailed administrative tasks. Mention the sales and productivity tools you’ve used and include examples of how your organization helped a team work more efficiently.
Marketing / Social Media / Creator Roles
Remote location: Fully remote
Pay: $130,000–$150,000/year
Why it’s a good fit: This experienced community role is a strong fit for someone with 3–4 years of community management experience in developer tools, open source, or technical SaaS. You’ll lead community programs, recruit and support ambassadors, build partnerships, create advocacy initiatives, and use engagement data to connect community growth with business results.
Application tip: Highlight experience managing ambassador or advocate programs, building relationships within technical communities, and working across marketing, customer success, and product teams. Include measurable results such as increased participation, stronger engagement, community-led content, or qualified leads.
Remote location: Remote USA
Pay: $70,000–$90,000/year
Why it’s a good fit: This junior/mid-level role is ideal for someone with 2–4 years of experience in influencer marketing, talent coordination, or marketing operations. You’ll manage creator outreach, campaign timelines, contracts, deliverables, payments, and influencer records using Notion.
Application tip: Highlight experience coordinating influencer campaigns, managing creator communications, tracking multiple deadlines, and building organized systems in Notion. Mention familiarity with Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and influencer management tools.
Remote location: Remote USA
Pay: $55,000–$62,000 + bonus potential
Why it’s a good fit: This is a great fit for readers with 1–2 years of marketing, creator, client service, or campaign coordination experience. The role involves influencer campaign execution, creator communication, briefs, reporting, and project management.
Application tip: Include any creator campaign, social media, client communication, or project tracking experience — even if it came from internships, freelance work, or your own content projects.
Remote location: Remote worldwide
Pay: $5,400–$6,300/month
Why it’s a good fit: This full-time operations role is a strong fit for someone who is organized, comfortable coordinating across teams, and able to keep projects moving forward. You’ll help manage workflows, coordinate resources, monitor project progress, and support successful delivery in a remote work environment.
Application tip: Highlight experience coordinating projects, tracking deadlines and deliverables, organizing workflows, and communicating with cross-functional teams. Mention the project management and collaboration tools you’ve used, along with examples of keeping a project on schedule or improving an operational process.
📚 On Our Work-Anywhere Reading List
Mass-applying to every remote job can feel productive, but MarketWatch says a more focused 10–15 applications per week may work better.
Investopedia reports that 25% of job seekers have been searching for over a year, which makes focused applications and smart positioning even more important.
The World Economic Forum covered how AI is changing entry-level roles, including a cited drop in U.S. entry-level postings over the last 18 months.
Business Insider recently spoke to a Nvidia executive about AI-generated resumes potentially performing better with AI recruiting systems — because, as he put it, “AI likes to use AI.” For remote job seekers, the takeaway is not to mass-produce fake-sounding resumes, but to use AI strategically: match keywords, rewrite experience clearly, and customize each resume to the actual role.
THIS WEEK’S ACTION ITEM:
→ Pick 3 roles from this list and create a simple “proof of fit” note for each one. In 20–30 minutes, write 3 bullets under each job: the tool they use, the problem the role solves, and one example from your background that proves you can do that kind of work.
COMPANY SPOTLIGHT:
Replit is a collaborative coding platform that helps people build software directly in the browser and, according to the listing, is positioning itself around agentic software creation using natural language. The Influencer Relations Coordinator role is remote-first and involves creator outreach, partnership logistics, tracking deliverables, and supporting a fast-moving creator program.
Remote-first / Async-friendly / Global team
TOOL OF THE WEEK:
Simplify is a browser extension that helps auto-fill job applications using your saved profile, so you can apply faster without retyping the same information over and over.
This is especially useful for this week’s job search because several listings already come through Simplify-supported application flows. Instead of spending 20 minutes manually entering your name, work history, resume details, links, and contact info on every single job, Simplify can help speed up the repetitive part — so you can spend more time tailoring the pieces that actually matter: your resume, cover letter, and application answers. For remote job seekers applying to multiple roles a week, that saved time adds up fast.
Until next time,
The Anywhere Employee Team