n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform built for the AI era, giving technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, backed by 500+ integrations and an active builder community.
Founded in 2019, the company has grown to a team of over 260 across Europe and the US, with its centre of gravity in Berlin.
Milestones so far: a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders; 190K+ GitHub stars, placing n8n among the world's Top 40 most popular projects; backing from top investors — from Sequoia's first German seed to SAP's recent strategic investment — at a $5.2bn valuation.
Applicants are encouraged to try n8n out, technical or not, and share a screenshot of their first workflow.

More than 80% of workflows built on n8n today involve AI agents, and the platform is deliberately expanding from deeply technical developers toward a broader set of builders.
The central design challenge is keeping power users happy while dramatically lowering the floor for newcomers.
This is a foundational hire with a real mandate and direct executive partnership.

Set a clear, consistent quality bar the team can orient around, so great work becomes the natural output of how the team designs together.
Build review processes and critique rituals that give the team a shared language for quality and confidence in craft decisions.
Evolve the design system and QA practices so the bar rises as the team grows.
Lower n8n's historically steep learning curve for new users without losing the power experienced builders value.

Shape product strategy rather than respond to it; bring design thinking into roadmap conversations and surface user problems early.
Help lead n8n's expansion toward a broader, less technical audience.
Build relationships with Product, Engineering, and leadership where design is a genuine thought partner at every stage.

Lead a team of around 14 designers: 2 Design Leads each working with roughly 6 ICs, plus Design Engineering and UX Research, with more hires ahead.
Shape team structure, career framework, and progression paths.
Create a culture of high standards and honest feedback.
Own hiring and headcount planning for the department.

Establish a pragmatic, continuous research practice from the ground up, including the first dedicated UX research hires.
Make customer insight, product data, and community feedback live inputs to product decisions.
Connect research to activation, adoption, retention, and new-user onboarding.

Champion practical AI adoption across the design org — prototyping, research synthesis, design QA, and workflow efficiency.
Keep the team current as AI tools, patterns, and expectations evolve.
Model a thoughtful, adaptive working style.

Product design leadership: experience managing managers, coaching senior designers, and building design teams that improve craft and business outcomes, including making hard performance calls.
Complex product systems experience: design leadership across complex or developer-facing products.
Craft authority: ability to identify great work, explain why it's great, and hold the line on standards.
Strategic influence: a track record of making design a co-equal in product conversations and driving decisions.
Structured problem-solving under ambiguity: able to create a plan and move forward without a map.
AI-era product judgment: understanding of the AI, automation, or adjacent tooling landscape and how to turn emerging patterns into trustworthy product experiences.
Research literacy: ability to build research into product development so insight shapes how teams decide.
Data-informed decision making: use of product analytics, research, and customer evidence over taste alone.
Org design and performance management: designing team structures, defining career paths, and handling difficult performance conversations.

Open-source, fair-code, community-led, or builder-driven product experience.
Design engineering credibility, with enough front-end fluency to partner on design system adoption and implementation quality.
Experience building design rituals, critique, QA, and collaboration practices across distributed teams and time zones.
Growth surface experience: activation, onboarding, templates, time-to-value, or product-led growth.
Open to an exceptional Design Manager ready for a first Head-level role.

Competitive compensation and equity ownership in n8n.
Work/life balance: Europe — 30 vacation days plus public holidays; US — 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays.
Health and wellness: Europe — benefits per local country norms; US — multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans for individuals and families, a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA, plus dental and vision.
Future planning: Europe — pension contributions per local norms; US — 401(k) with a 4% employer match.
Financial security (US): company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance.
Career growth: €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching.
A passionate team with regular hackathons.
Remote-first across Europe, with regular off-sites; some roles, such as US sales, are hybrid.
Giving back: $100 per month to support open source projects of your choice.
Transparency across what everyone is working on and how the company is doing.

Head of Product Design