FlexJobs

What FlexJobs does

FlexJobs Corp. is a Boulder, Colorado-based online job services platform founded in 2007 that operates a curated job board exclusively for remote, freelance, part-time, and flexible-schedule positions. The platform hosts more than 233,000 hand-screened job listings from approximately 14,800 companies, with a research team spending 200+ hours per day verifying employers to eliminate scams and misleading postings — a positioning the company has used to differentiate from generalist job boards. Since its founding, the platform reports serving more than 10 million job seekers and has expanded distribution through iOS and Android mobile applications, a partner site (Remote.co), and acquired assets Job-Hunt.org (2021) and LocalWise (2022). The product suite includes a personalized member dashboard with saved searches and application tracking, AI-powered application auto-completion via ExpertApply, company research tools, career-coaching webinars, and proprietary research publications such as the quarterly Remote Work Index and annual Top 100 Companies lists.

The company's revenue model is a two-sided marketplace: primary monetization is a job-seeker membership subscription providing unlimited access to listings, resources, and career coaching, supplemented by employer fees for job postings against the verified candidate pool. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; memberships operate on an annual billing cadence. Go-to-market is self-serve and product-led, with customer acquisition driven by content marketing, SEO, organic social (X, TikTok, Telegram), email, webinars, and earned media coverage in outlets such as CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, and USA Today. The platform has limited its technology stack to standard identity integrations (Google Sign-In, Apple Sign-In) and a single text-based AI modality (form auto-completion), with no disclosed API, SDK, or MCP offering. The company is privately held, founder-led by Sara Sutton with co-founder Howard Love as Chairman, and shows no evidence of external venture or private equity investment in the available data.

Name

FlexJobs

Legal name

FlexJobs

Website

https://flexjobs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

FlexJobs is a Boulder, Colorado-based subscription job board founded in 2007 that curates and hand-verifies more than 230,000 remote, freelance, part-time, and flexible-schedule jobs from roughly 14,800 companies for over 10 million job seekers, monetizing primarily through job-seeker memberships supplemented by employer job-posting fees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Job Board Platform

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Gig / On-Demand Generalist Staffing Platforms (BPACACAK)

Keywords

• Remote job board
• Flexible job listings
• Work from home jobs
• Job verification service
• Career resources platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Boulder

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Job Seeker Membership Subscription: FlexJobs generates revenue primarily through subscription memberships charged to job seekers seeking access to verified remote and flexible job listings. The membership provides unlimited access to job listings, resources, webinars, and career coaching.
2. Employer Job Posting Services: Companies pay to post job listings on the FlexJobs platform to reach the platform's verified pool of remote-work seekers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

FlexJobs operates a subscription-based online job board platform focused exclusively on remote, freelance, part-time, and flexible-schedule job opportunities. Every company and listing is hand-screened by an in-house research team to eliminate ads, scams, and junk postings, and the platform supplements listings with AI-powered application assistance (ExpertApply), personalized dashboards, company research tools, mobile apps, and career resources including webinars, resume tools, and coaching.

Product overview

FlexJobs operates as a specialized job board platform focused exclusively on remote and flexible work opportunities. The core offering is a curated database of hand-screened job listings supplemented by AI-powered application assistance through ExpertApply, personalized job matching via member dashboards, and comprehensive career development resources including articles, webinars, and research reports. The platform also publishes periodic research such as the Remote Work Index and Top Companies lists to guide job seekers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• FlexJobs Job Board Membership The core subscription product providing job seekers with unlimited access to 230,000+ hand-verified remote, freelance, part-time, and flexible-schedule job listings from 14,800+ companies. Includes saved searches, application tracking, personalized recommendations, company research tools, resume resources, webinars, and career coaching for individual professional members.
• Remote Work Index Report Quarterly research publication analyzing remote work trends, job market data, top companies, and employment statistics across industries. Distributed to job seekers, employers, and media.
• Top Companies for Remote Jobs Lists Annual and seasonal curated lists ranking the top companies for remote work (e.g., Top 100 Companies to Watch for Remote Jobs), identifying employers with high volumes of verified remote job postings.
• FlexJobs Mobile App (iOS and Android) Dedicated iOS and Android applications that allow FlexJobs members to search verified remote jobs, save listings, track applications, and access career resources from mobile devices.

Quantifiable outcome

• 10 million+ job seekers have used FlexJobs to find remote work
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability2 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Job-Hunt.orgminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 September 2021FlexJobs acquired the career resources website Job-Hunt.org in September 2021. The acquisition aimed to enhance support for job seekers by combining the companies' resources and content. This acquisition expanded FlexJobs' content library and career resources for its members.
• Remote.cominorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRemote.co is listed as a partner site alongside FlexJobs, offering complementary remote work resources and job listings.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Glassdoor: Glassdoor combines job listings with company reviews and salary data, increasingly including remote-work filters. It overlaps with FlexJobs' company-research value proposition and employer posting business.
• Indeed: Indeed is the largest generalist job search engine globally and now offers extensive remote job filters for free. It competes with FlexJobs on the job-seeker funnel but lacks FlexJobs' hand-verification and curated flexible-work focus.
• Upwork: Upwork is a leading freelance marketplace connecting independent professionals with remote contract work, overlapping with FlexJobs' freelancer and independent-worker customer segment.
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn Jobs combines a professional network with job listings and remote filters, plus AI-assisted matching. It is a broad incumbent competitor to FlexJobs for both job seekers and employer recruiting budgets.
• CareerBuilder: CareerBuilder is a long-standing generalist job board and talent acquisition platform with employer posting and candidate matching products. It competes with FlexJobs for employer budget across job-seeker channels.

Direct peers

• ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter is a subscription-based job marketplace serving both employers and job seekers with a similar two-sided model to FlexJobs, including AI matching features that overlap with FlexJobs' ExpertApply.
• Remotive: Remotive runs a curated remote-job board and community targeting remote workers and remote-first companies. It overlaps directly with FlexJobs' core offering for remote and flexible positions.
• We Work Remotely: We Work Remotely is one of the longest-running remote-only job boards, focused exclusively on remote positions. It is the closest direct niche competitor to FlexJobs in remote-job curation.

Emerging players

• LHH (Lee Hecht Harrison): LHH offers career transition, coaching, and talent development services, overlapping with FlexJobs' career-coaching and resume-resources offerings, and serves the same end-customer demographics.
• AngelList Talent: AngelList Talent (now Wellfound) operates a startup-focused job marketplace with a strong remote-work filter and employer posting model. It is an emerging competitor in the remote-job seeker segment FlexJobs serves.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/flexjobs
• TikToktiktok.com/@flexjobs?lang=en
• Facebookfacebook.com/flexjobs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/flexjobs-com

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A2 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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