Why We're Focusing on US-Based Jobs

If you've ever used a product that tries to do too much, you know how frustrating that can be. When a product is built to serve many different use cases at once, it often ends up being mediocre at all of them. Sometimes the best product decision is to do less, but do it more deliberately.

At Better Job Board, we want to help job seekers find relevant opportunities with less noise and less wasted effort. When we started, we added every job we could get our hands on because that seemed like the best way to serve job seekers. Over time, though, we realized that trying to serve everyone at once makes it much harder to build a board that feels accurate, trustworthy, and fast for anyone.

Going forward, we are focusing on US-based jobs.

This means we will stop adding new non-US jobs to the site, and over time the board will become US-only.

We want to explain why we are making this change, what it means for you, and what we expect to improve as a result.

Why Narrow the Scope?

At a high level, this is a focus decision.

Only a small share of job seekers use the site with true multi-country intent. Most people search within a single country's hiring market. Once we looked at the product through that lens, country became the clearest and most practical boundary for narrowing scope.

We chose the US for a simple reason: it is where we are based, and it is the market we know best from direct experience.

That matters more than it may seem.

Hiring culture differs significantly across countries. Job titles do not always map cleanly. Salary expectations and transparency norms vary. Remote work policies vary. Work authorization and visa language vary. Even the way companies describe seniority, benefits, and location flexibility can differ dramatically.

By focusing on US-based jobs, we can spend more time improving the details that make a job board genuinely useful instead of spreading our effort across very different markets.

This does not mean other countries are unimportant. It means we would rather be genuinely useful in one market than superficially available in many. If we expand beyond the US later, we want to do it because we have earned the right to, with a great product, clear lessons from one market, and a better understanding of what thoughtful expansion should look like.

What This Means for Job Seekers

If you are looking for jobs in the US, we expect this to lead to improvements over time such as:

• A more relevant search experience and simpler filters
• More consistent location handling
• More dependable salary and remote-work signals
• Faster improvement in the parts of the site that matter most to US job seekers

If you primarily search for jobs outside the US, this change will make the site less useful or entirely irrelevant to you. We do not want to pretend otherwise.

We also know some job seekers search across multiple countries, are open to relocation, or specifically want international opportunities. This change is not ideal for those use cases. We are making it because we believe focus will let us deliver a meaningfully better experience for the much larger group of people searching within the US market.

What Counts as a "US-Based" Job

For this change, "US-based" generally means one of the following:

• A job physically located in the United States
• A remote job that is open to workers based in the United States

This does not mean the company must be headquartered in the US. A company can be based elsewhere and still hire for US-based roles.

It also does not mean every remote job will qualify. If a remote role is only open in another country, or is tied to a non-US employment market, it will not be included.

There will always be edge cases, especially with cross-border remote hiring. When those come up, we will use the same guiding principle: is this genuinely a role that a US-based job seeker could hold?

What Happens Next

Here is how the transition will work:

• Over the next few weeks, we will tighten our filters until we stop adding new non-US jobs
• Existing non-US jobs will age out and be removed through the board's normal lifecycle
• Saved searches or browsing patterns that previously included non-US roles may return fewer results than before

In other words, this is a transition, not a single overnight wipe.

We expect this change to make Better Job Board more focused and more useful over time. Our goal is not to be everything to everyone. It is to be genuinely helpful to job seekers searching in the US.