• Drive execution with speed, judgment, and alignment

  • Partner closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and what success looks like.
  • Bring the right level of structure to your team, using process where it helps and keeping things lightweight where it doesn’t.
  • Keep the team accountable to meaningful outcomes while balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.

• Lead with technical credibility

  • Bring enough technical depth to mentor engineers, challenge decisions thoughtfully, and maintain a high bar for engineering quality.
  • Support architectural and delivery decisions across your area, helping the team make sound trade-offs around scalability, reliability, and speed.
  • Step into technical details or code when needed to unblock or support the team, while keeping your primary focus on people leadership and team effectiveness.

REQUIREMENTS

Must-haves

• 🌱 First-line engineering management experience: You’ve been a first-line Engineering Manager for at least 2 years and have experience directly leading engineers in a growing product organization. You’ve led teams that shipped meaningful product or platform outcomes, and you know how to balance execution, quality, and team health.
• 🎯 Relevant domain experience: You've led engineering teams working in one of the following areas
  • 💳 Billing & licensing: subscription, billing, payments, metering, or licensing/entitlement systems
  • 🔍 Governance & observability: audit logging, monitoring/observability tooling, admin/access controls, or compliance-related features
• 🤝 Strong people leadership: You know how to coach, give clear feedback, support career growth, and handle hard conversations with empathy, honesty, and accountability.
• 🏎️ Composure in fast-moving environments: You help your team stay focused, confident, and effective as priorities evolve, bringing optimism, sound judgment, and a clear path forward even when the environment is moving fast.
• ⚙️ Hands-on experience as a software engineer: You have a strong software engineering background and can confidently mentor engineers, contribute to system and architecture discussions, and assess technical trade-offs.
• 🛠️ Comfortable being hands-on when needed: You can go deep into technical details or code to unblock, challenge, or support your team, but you know your main job is not to be on the critical path.
• 🔄 Cross-functional alignment: Experience collaborating with Product, Design, and other stakeholders, as you align different perspectives into a clear path forward.
• 🏢 High-growth SaaS experience: You’ve worked in a high-growth SaaS company and know how to build strong teams, scale with intention, and are excited to reach ambitious goals together with your team.

Nice-to-haves

• 🧩 TypeScript / Node.js familiarity: You’ve worked with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js and could quickly build context in our stack.
• 🌍 Open-source or developer tooling interest: You’re excited by technical products, builder communities, and the challenges that come with extensible software and automation.
• 🤖 AI product exposure: You’ve worked near AI-native products, AI features, or teams exploring how AI is changing product experiences and engineering execution.

Why Join Us?

At n8n, you’ll join at a moment where strong engineering leadership can have outsized impact. We’re building in a space that is moving quickly, and we see that as an opportunity: to help teams stay ambitious, grounded, and effective while shaping what great engineering leadership looks like in an AI-native company. You’ll play a key role in building teams that empower others, act with integrity, move with speed and efficiency, and think bigger than incremental improvement. In a remote-first company growing fast, your work will directly influence how we scale our engineering organization and build the future of automation.

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.

Our company language is English.

You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n.

Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.
• Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.
• Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:
  • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.
  • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
• Health & wellness 🩺 –
  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
  • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost