Finding jobs and projects

How to browse and filter the job board.

The job board lists two kinds of posts:

  • Jobs — employment positions (full-time, part-time, or contract) at studios, agencies, and brands.
  • Projects — freelance briefs with a budget and timeline, where a brand or agency is looking for a creator or studio to produce something.

Projects need a free account

Jobs are open to everyone. A project's full brief is for FOOH members: posting a project is free for the brand, and in return you read it with a free account.

Without an account, a project page shows a teaser: the title, the budget, the timeline, who they're looking for, where, and the opening lines of the brief. Press Sign up to read and apply (or Log in if you already have an account) and you come straight back to the same project, now with the full brief, who posted it and Apply to this project. An account costs nothing, and you never pay to apply.

Filtering

Search by keyword across titles, companies, and industries at the top of the board. For a project, search looks at its title and the opening lines of its brief.

The filter panel on the right narrows the list as you go:

  • Specialties — pick one or more disciplines (CGI, VFX, AI Video, 3D Animation, Motion Design, Creative Direction).
  • Location — type a city or country, and tick Open to remote to include remote-friendly posts.
  • Full-Time / Freelance/Contract — show employment roles, freelance briefs, or both.

Each card shows the company, title, location, and when it was posted. A project card reads Project where a job names its company — who posted a project is on its page, for members. Promoted posts are marked Featured and sit at the top. Click through for the full description.

What's on a post

Job posts show the employment type and salary range; project posts show who they're looking for (freelancer, studio, agency, or any), the budget range, and the timeline. Job posts stay live while the poster's subscription is active. Project posts are free for the poster, and a person on the FOOH team checks each one before it appears on the board; a project stays up for 30 days unless its poster closes it sooner (they can renew it, which is checked again).

Some jobs are listed by FOOH itself from an employer's own careers page, after a person on our team has checked the role and that its application link works. Those stay on the board for a set period (usually two weeks), and only while we can confirm the role is still open: if we haven't been able to confirm it for a week, it steps off the board until the employer's page shows it again. If the employer changes the role while it is listed, for example its location or whether it is remote, the listing follows their careers page automatically. It keeps its place and its end date. Its salary is written the same way on every job ("$142,800 – $193,200 a year", "From $60,000 a year", "$45 an hour"), with no period when the employer didn't say one, and any note the employer adds about the pay (for example what the range depends on) sits in small text under it.

On a job FOOH collected from an employer's careers page, the description is the job itself: legal boilerplate (equal-opportunity statements, fraud warnings, privacy notices) is left out. Apply for this position opens the employer's original ad, if you want to read it in full. When the ad names a closing date, that date is the job's application deadline, and the listing ends then.

A listing ends when its time on the board is up, when the employer's application deadline passes, when the employer says the role is closed, or when their careers page has stopped listing it. We only count the last one after checking twice, at least a day apart. If the employer later reopens the role, the page stays as it is and the role doesn't come back to the board.

If you spot a live job that's closed, has a dead apply link or looks fake, press Report this job under its Apply card. See Reporting a job.

Live jobs also appear in Google's job search, with their title, company, location and end date. Projects don't: Google would get more of the brief than a visitor without an account sees. A project's page can still turn up in an ordinary Google search, showing only its teaser. The moment a job leaves the board or reaches its end date, its page stops offering it to Google, and it drops out of Google's results the next time Google reads the page. The salary isn't passed to Google. Where the job is comes from a world list of places (GeoNames: every city over 15,000 people, every state or region and every country): the city you pick when you post is matched against it, and a job listing several places is shown to Google in each of them. A job whose place isn't in that list stays on FOOH but isn't sent to Google; if your town is smaller, Google is told the country.

A job link from Instagram, a newsletter or a bookmark keeps working after the role leaves the board. The page says what happened, without an Apply button:

  • Archived — the role's time on FOOH is over. The note says why: its time on the board ran out, the employer's deadline passed, the employer closed it, or their careers page stopped listing it. If it only ran its time, the role may still be open, so check the employer's careers page. Anything the employer did afterwards is noted separately, never as the reason.
  • Temporarily unavailable — we couldn't confirm recently that the role is still open. It may come back.
  • Closed or Expired — a listing a company posted that has ended: they closed it, or its paid time ran out.

Every one of these pages keeps the role's details and dates (when it was on FOOH, and when the employer posted it, if they said), and underneath it offers current jobs:

  • Similar live jobs — jobs on the board now in the same discipline, in a compatible place (the same city or country, or remote; a remote role only suggests remote ones), newest first.
  • Latest jobs — when nothing matches closely, the newest live jobs, labelled as exactly that.
  • If there are no live jobs at all, the page says so.

Every version has a Browse all live jobs button, and the job updates panel if you'd like the next ones by email. Subscribing is optional and doesn't create an account.

If you open one of those current jobs, your browser tab remembers which old page sent you there, for a couple of hours at most. We use it only to count how often old links lead people to live jobs — never to identify you — and it is forgotten when you close the tab or open a different job.

A draft or a job that was never published has no page: its link is a normal "not found".

Hearing about new jobs

The panel above the list emails you new jobs — weekly, or as they go live — with no account needed. See "Getting job updates by email".

Found something? See "Applying to a job or project" for how applications work.