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

The board has three columns on a computer: the filters on the left, the list in the middle and, on a wide screen, a card for brands who want to post on the right.

At the top of the filter column, All / Jobs / Projects shows both kinds or just one, and Search looks for a keyword across titles, companies and industries (for a project, its title and the opening lines of its brief). The column stays on screen while you scroll the list, and the filters below the search scroll inside it:

  • Work mode — Remote, Hybrid, On-site, or Not stated for posts that don't say.
  • Seniority — Entry / Junior, Mid, Senior, Lead / Head. A post that doesn't name a level stays in the list until you pick one here.
  • Job type (with Jobs or All) — Full-time, Part-time, Contract / fixed-term, Freelance, Internship, or Not stated. Projects have no job type, so they leave the list while you pick one. Salary shown keeps only posts with pay on them.
  • Budget and Duration (with Projects) — the project's budget band (under €2k / $2k, €2–5k, €5–15k, €15k+) and how long it runs (under 2 weeks, 2–6 weeks, 6+ weeks). Budget shown keeps only projects with a budget.
  • Specialty — pick one or more disciplines (CGI, VFX, AI Video, 3D Animation, Motion Design, Creative Direction).
  • Location — type a city or country.
  • Date posted — the last 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days, counted from when the post first went live on FOOH (an edit or a renewal doesn't make it new again).
  • Tools — pick the tools you work in (Houdini, Cinema 4D, …) from the list; type to search it. A post shows when it names any of them. Today only jobs FOOH collected from employers' careers pages name tools.

Within a filter any of your picks counts; across filters a post has to match all of them. Switching between Jobs and Projects drops the filters that only belong to the other kind.

Not stated means the post doesn't say: we never guess. A company's own post states what its poster picked (a post marked Open to remote applicants with no work mode counts as Remote); for a job FOOH collected from an employer's careers page, the details are read from the ad itself, and they update when we read it again. Such a job never shows as Full-time, because an ad that says "permanent" and one that says nothing look the same to us — pick Not stated to see them. A listing's page shows the same details as the filters read, so what you filtered by is what you'll find on the page; a detail the post doesn't state isn't shown.

The list changes as you pick, and your filters are in the page's address, so you can share a filtered list or reload it. Clear all under the filters starts over.

On a phone

On a phone the list starts right under the headline. A slim bar stays at the top while you scroll: All / Jobs / Projects on the left and Filters on the right, which shows how many filters you have on (Filters · 2). Filters opens a sheet with the search and the same filters as on a computer. Nothing changes behind it while you tick: Show results applies everything at once, Clear empties the sheet, and closing the sheet without Show results keeps the filters you had. If you're hiring, Post a job or project under the headline takes you to the posting page.

Boards for one discipline or place

The boards for a discipline, a place or remote work (for example CGI jobs, remote jobs or the jobs in one country, all linked from the jobs directory) work the same way as the main board, on a computer and on a phone, with their own headline. They list only the posts that fit, and your filters stay on that board's address. A filter the board already decides is left out: a discipline's board has no Specialty, and a remote board has no Work mode. A country's board keeps Location, so you can narrow it to a city.

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

A job's page shows its work mode, seniority, job type and salary, where the poster stated them; a project's shows who they're looking for (freelancer, studio, agency, or any), its budget and its duration, with the poster's own note beside each where they added one. 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 job-alert card, first in the list and again every 16 posts, 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.