Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
Key skills for this role
n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.
Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve:
Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders
Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects
Backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation
That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register .
We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.
Your main goal will be to become the founding owner of Sales Compensation at n8n, building from scratch how we pay and motivate every revenue team across SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, CS, SE, SDR, and Partnerships, spanning EMEA and AMER. You'll have the mandate to make it AI-first from day one, partnering with our internal AI team to build the agents that run it at scale.
To do so, here are your responsibilities:
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
North Canton, USA
Norway, USA
Boston, USA
North Canton, USA
London, GBR
North Canton, USA
North Canton, USA
North Canton, USA
North Canton, USA
Implement quotas, targets, and crediting rules correctly across the commissions platform and Salesforce.
Own crediting logic for expansions, amendments, multi-year deals, proration, and FX.
Partner with RevOps and Deal Desk to keep crediting aligned with how deals are structured.
Run monthly and quarterly commission calculations, reconciliation, and dispute resolution.
Own the payroll handoff process, ensuring accurate and on-time payouts.
Maintain audit readiness and strong internal controls across the full compensation cycle.
Build and maintain reliable reporting on attainment, payouts, and plan effectiveness for Sales, Finance, and RevOps leadership.
Surface insights on plan performance and recommend adjustments to keep incentives driving the right behaviors.
Partner with Sales leadership, RevOps, Finance/FP&A, Payroll, People, and Legal on compensation governance.
Serve as the go-to expert on comp mechanics, explaining plan design and payouts to reps and executives alike.
Support internal-controls work, responding to audit requests related to compensation.
📋 SOX & controls experience: You've worked with SOX/internal controls and commissions accounting or accruals.
📊 BI/reporting tools: You have experience with BI or reporting tooling.
🤖 Automation skills: You're comfortable with SQL, dbt, or scripting to automate parts of the comp workflow.
At n8n, you'll be the first dedicated owner of a mission-critical revenue function - building the systems, processes, and controls behind sales compensation largely from the ground up. You'll work with high visibility across Sales, Finance, and RevOps leadership, with real autonomy to shape how the comp function evolves as we scale. You'll join a supportive, remote-first team that values autonomy, experimentation, and continuous learning, inside one of Europe's fastest-growing startups.
Sound like a challenge you're excited to take on?
Apply now - and help us 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 ( https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35 ).
n8n is a privately held German AI workflow automation platform for technical teams.
Visit company websiteJobs and hiring trendsFull-time
Mid · 4+ years experience
Remote
Apply faster on company sites with our extension.