With return-to-office mandates in full swing, it’s no wonder professionals are urgently seeking remote and hybrid jobs. According to search volume data on Google Trends, Google searches for “remote jobs” are up by eight points compared with October of last year.

If you’re one of the professionals looking for a remote or hybrid remote job, one of the first places you should start looking is startups.

3 Entry-Level Remote Jobs Hiring Now In 2024

Startups are fresh, innovative companies usually funded by investors and VCs (venture capital) unless they are bootstrapped. Since these companies are being launched post-pandemic, many favor creative and dynamic working methods and encourage fresh ideas. They are also obsessed with attracting the best talent to take their product to market as quickly as possible while ensuring they keep their shareholders happy.

Consequently, quite a number of startups offer unique benefits and perks that actually matter to employees, including fully remote work, work-from-anywhere, hybrid remote working, and other flexible options.

Here are some remote entry-level jobs at startups hiring now in 2024. Two of these come from LinkedIn’s recently released 2024 Top Startups List, which features the new companies defining and disrupting industries and reimagining the future (including the top 50 startups where most Americans like to work).

1. Ramp—Customer Experience Agent (remote, salary starts from $46,000+)
2. Headway—Revenue support associate (remote, salary starts from $60,000+)
3. Wiz—Legal operations administrator (remote)

Why Startups Are The Best Places To Find Entry-Level Remote Jobs

In addition to remote working benefits, working at a startup upon graduation can offer some real tangible value to your career. For this reason, it makes for one of the best career choices you can make at the entry-level. Y-Combinator founder Paul Graham is well-known to be an advocate of startups (of course), and he once posted on X (formerly Twitter) that:

“If you take the job at the startup instead of the safer one at a big company, all your coworkers will also be people who took the job at the startup. In ten years they’ll be running everything, even if the startup tanks.”

Some of the benefits of landing an entry-level remote job at a startup include:

• Business insights gained through hands-on experience and in-depth exposure that you won’t achieve to the same degree through working at Big Tech or other large, well-established organizations.
• Proximity to working with the founders, who can serve as mentors for your career.
• You learn skills such as working under pressure and adaptability as startups operate at such a fast pace from day one through to post-launch
• You’re forced to develop leadership skills, take ownership and responsibility, learn quickly from feedback, and build confidence from day one.
• If the startup is successful, it’s very unlikely that you would have a stagnant career; not only are no two days the same, but you would likely be progressing through the ranks and landing promotions to senior management and leadership roles much more quickly than in a traditional corporate setting at a well-established company.
• You get to build a strong network of equally ambitious people, which proves invaluable for future career opportunities.
• Being involved from the beginning as part of the founding team means that you will play a key role in shaping the company’s future and success—a pretty noteworthy accomplishment to add to your resume, and it will also give you a sense of purpose and satisfaction.
• And, of course, last but not least comes the financial aspect—many startups offer stock options and equity, so it will pay off in more ways than one if you are successful in landing the job.

Now, of course, there are a few downsides, such as:

• Lack of work/life balance in some cases
• A high-pressure, hustle culture environment may not be conducive to your health
• Heavier workload due to limited staff
• Lack of ideal company structure to prevent burnout and enable even distribution of tasks

However, these should all be carefully weighed together, considering your lifestyle, career goals, mental and physical well-being, and core values and priorities.

With fast-tracked career acceleration, learning and development opportunities, remote working benefits alongside uncapped financial rewards, why not evaluate if this is the right step for you and consider adjusting your job search strategy and making startups part of your search for entry-level remote jobs?