How does $500K working from home in SC sound? Here are 8 high-paying open remote work jobs

The work-at-home phenomenon ushered in by COVID continues with some companies offering more and more remote jobs.

As in never go into the office. As in work from anywhere. Even from your RV as seen increasingly on Instagram and TikTok.

There are thousands of jobs listed on such websites as LinkedIn, monster.com and one of the more creatively named, nodesk.com.

Some of the jobs are more traditional types of work from home, such as customer service and computer professionals.

But now there are an inordinate number of companies looking to remote lawyers and doctors, social workers and psychiatrists, speech therapists and tax professionals.

And then there are more unusual and well-paying jobs.

Netflix Games is offering $150,000 to $500,000 for an App Store optimization specialist manager “to join us in delivering the next generation of mobile games to a worldwide audience.”

They, in essence, want someone who can help players find their games on the App store and Google Play.

Here’s how they say it: ”Manage the entire cycle of ASO activities for multiple titles across Google Play and the App Store, increasing discoverability and maximizing conversion rate.

Test, build, strategize,” according to their post on LinkedIn.

Netflix games include Grand Theft Auto, Sonic Prime Dash and Card Blast.

Five years experience and the ability to “drive big-picture strategy and execution.”

Over on Nodesk.com, Reddit is looking for a security engineer at a salary of $164.2000 to $229.900. Reddit calls itself the front page of the internet.

Here’s how a poster on Reddit described the job of a security engineer: “Think of an organization’s security architecture as a castle. To protect yourself from external attacks, you need walls (firewalls). (EDR or any other system) should be used to protect people within the castle. A spy or watchtower is needed to keep track of who enters and leaves a building (SIEM & Monitoring). Some people should go over the defenses and find any weaknesses and loopholes (vulnerability assessment, etc.).”

Axios is hiring a remote vice president of marketing and growth at a salary between $190,000 and $230,000.

Founded in 2016, Axios, a news website, is based in Arlington, Virginia, but this job can be performed anywhere. The name comes from the Greek word meaning worthy.

Its tagline is “Smart brevity worthy of people’s time, attention and trust.”

“This leader will take our existing audience of 3M+ newsletter subscribers and 20M+ website visitors to new heights,” the job post says. Audience development and retention is key and the company wants this employee to advocate for the reader.

Fifteen years in digital marketing experience and handling a multi-million budget required.

401(k) with employer match, good health insurance and other benefits but also a mental health day per quarter, virtual company-sponsored social events and $100 stipend for working at home.

Dropbox is looking for a director, head of talent brand. The company pays according to where the employee lives, for South Carolina it would be up to $239,200. In San Francisco and New York it would be $299,000. A file hosting service Dropbox is headquartered in San Francisco. The job, in essence, would be handling and enhancing the company’s brand and measuring whether the strategy is working. Ten years experience, a bachelor’s degree and good leadership and communication skills are required.

Streaming company Roku, through PSG staffing, is looking for a senior video player engineer at a salary of $121,500 to $161,000 a year. PSG says Roku is a “great company culture and team atmosphere. Building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise & strategic thinking.”

The job entails designing core video player features for live events on TV — including football championship, baseball championship, international soccer games, political events, pro fighting, football playoffs, movie award shows and more.

The job requires a bachelor and/or masters computer science, programming skills in BrightScript, understanding SceneGraph framework and experience with video streaming technologies.

Newsweek magazine is looking for a deputy publishing editor at a salary of $100,00 to $120,000. The 90-year-old magazine says it reaches 100 million people each month via a dozen print and digital platforms.

This job oversees the copy editing desk.

Real estate website Zillow is looking for a marketing technologist or marketing engineer “to help people move from dreaming to transacting.”

This is a technical liaison between marketing, product, engineering, and marketing vendor teams.

The pay was advertised as $117,800 to $188,200 in certain areas of the country such as California and New York and may not be the same in every state. The employee, though, may live in any state with company approval.

Requirements are at least three years experience in engineering, analytics, tech. operations, or marketing technologist role, shipping scalable platforms and services in marketing-related domains, expertise in SQL, python (or other programming languages); familiar with ETL tools and integration with Marketing systems, hands-on experience using AWS services like S3, Lambda, etc., bachelor’s degree in computer science, operations management, or similar field preferred or equivalent experience.

Zillow said in the ad, “The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job you’re in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.”

And if you’re yearning for adventure, there’s this: $180,000 to $200,000 to work remotely in Europe for CSGO Empire, an online gambling company as head of design.

“Experienced in all things design from strategy to execution with an expertise in UX/UI design and a portfolio + metrics to prove it,” the LinkedIn post says.

All of the team is remote and there are challenges.

“The scene is filled with scammers and exploiters looking to lie and cheat their way to big paydays,” the company said. “Stopping them is a strong part of our identity — it’s something we deeply believe in and think is crucial for the safety and growth of the industry.”

And here might be their best selling points: limited meetings and no micromanagement.