Top Remote Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Serve as a fractional Head of People partnering with founders to define and execute people strategy. Design and implement hiring, onboarding, performance, compensation, and employee experience programs. Lead org design, workforce planning, people operations, compliance, and employee relations. Advise on culture and complex decisions, collaborate with cross-functional experts, and build trusted relationships with founders. Option to transition from contractor to full-time.

Design end-to-end web and mobile experiences for an entertainment and marketplace platform. Create user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity designs and prototypes in Figma, contribute to a design system, collaborate with product and engineering, and use research and analytics to iterate on accessible, user-centered interfaces.

Contract 2D Art Generalist creating concept art, character illustrations, and game art. Collaborate with the team to develop a cohesive visual direction, contribute art assets to the project, and iterate based on feedback. Work varies week to week; potential for additional future work.

Senior/Principal DevOps Engineers will deliver cloud and infrastructure projects for small, medium-sized, and enterprise clients. Responsibilities include DevOps project delivery, staff augmentation, fractional retainers, and solution consulting using AWS, GCP, Azure, infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and scripting languages. Strong communication and project management skills are required. Roles are available full-time or part-time as 1099 contractor engagements for US-based workers.

Design, develop, deploy, and maintain mobile applications for Android and iOS. Responsibilities include writing clean code, integrating APIs and existing systems, ensuring accessibility and platform compliance, troubleshooting issues, and staying current with mobile development technologies. The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and strong knowledge of mobile frameworks and programming languages.

Design and deliver user-centric web and mobile experiences: wireframes, flows, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes. Build and maintain design systems, run UX research and usability testing, optimize for accessibility, responsiveness, and performance, and collaborate with product, engineering, and marketing on fintech investor flows.

Drives new business with small and mid-sized companies, builds and manages a client pipeline, closes merchant services deals, and develops residual revenue. Mentors and supports sales representatives, shares sales strategies, contributes to regional expansion and recruiting, and operates independently in a fully remote, commission-only structure.

Conduct keyword research, on-page optimization, technical SEO checks, link-building support, competitor analysis, and content briefing. Track rankings, traffic, and conversions while preparing performance reports and monitoring search engine updates. The intern will receive mentoring and gain practical experience with SEO and analytics tools.

Edit and fact-check content across blogs, Help Center materials, changelogs, case studies, PR, newsletters, product updates, and UI text. Maintain consistent brand voice, improve clarity and tone, optimize content for AI answers, and write original editorial pieces. The role requires native English fluency, strong editing and writing experience, portfolio evidence, sound editorial judgment, ownership, and comfort working at startup speed.

Sell and onboard Part 135 charter operators in the Northeast, owning full sales cycle from prospecting to implementation, managing pipeline and forecasts, driving new client acquisition and expansion, and supporting adoption and product feedback.