About Career Sprig
A small, opinionated job board built specifically for working parents and caregivers who need real flexibility — not the marketing-flavored kind.
Why we exist
Most remote job boards optimize for everyone. They show you 50,000 fully-remote postings sorted by recency, leaving you to figure out which ones actually let you work around a 7am wake-up, an 11am pediatrician appointment, and a 3pm school pickup. That's a research project, not a job search.
Career Sprig exists because one of our co-founders spent six weeks of nights-and-naptimes filtering remote listings into a private spreadsheet — looking for the keywords that signal parent-friendly cultures: asynchronous, flexible hours, parental leave, part-time, no on-call, core overlap window, four-day week. After applying to roles from that filtered list, the response rate was three times higher than a stack of generic remote applications. The hypothesis was simple: there's enough signal in the actual posting language to do this work for everyone, automatically.
What we do
We pull active remote job listings from public sources, then run each posting through a parent-friendly scoring pass. We look for explicit signals — words and phrases the employer chose to put in their own listing — and weight them. A role that says "part-time, 20 hours a week, set your own schedule" scores higher than one that says "fast-paced, hard-charging, on-call rotation." A role that says "we are async-first with one core overlap hour" scores higher than one that says "tight-knit team that hops on calls all day."
The score isn't a guarantee — language can be misleading, and culture is set by managers, not posting templates. But it's a far better starting filter than "remote: yes."
Where the data comes from
Career Sprig is currently seeded primarily from We Work Remotely, a long-running public job board that exposes its listings via category RSS feeds, with supplementary listings from the Remotive public API. We do not scrape behind paywalls and we do not republish private listings. Every job on Career Sprig links straight to the original employer application page — we don't intercept the apply flow, capture your resume, or charge a fee for the introduction.
Job data is refreshed by re-running our seed script. The source mix used for the current snapshot is recorded in the metadata of the site's data file, /data/catalog.json.
Between full catalog refreshes, our homepage's Live openings right now section shows a small, currently-open sample pulled fresh every day straight from We Work Remotely and Remotive, filtered to flexible-schedule roles (part-time, freelance, contract, internship, or explicitly flexible/async full-time). It's intentionally a short list — the honest count of what's live right now, not a marketing number — and every listing links straight back to the original posting. You can also subscribe to newly added catalog listings via our RSS feed.
What we don't do
- We don't sell your data. We don't have your data. There is no signup wall.
- We don't take a cut. Applications go directly to the employer.
- We don't game listings. Companies can't pay to outrank others in the parent-friendly score; the score is calculated only from posting content.
- We don't pretend remote means flexible. Plenty of remote jobs are 9-to-5 grinds with the commute removed. We label them honestly.
Who's behind this
Career Sprig is a small independent project built by parents, for parents and caregivers. We are not a venture-funded recruiting platform — there is no growth target, no investor deck, no plan to add a "premium tier." If the site keeps helping people land flexible work, it stays up. If it stops being useful, we will say so out loud and shut it down.
Get in touch
If you have a role that should be on the board, a feature request, or feedback on the parent-friendly scoring, head to the contact page. If you're an employer with a flexible role to post, see post a flexible job. If you're a parent or caregiver wondering where to start, the resources and Q&A pages were written with you in mind.