Senior Product Manager - Core Platform

SCALABILITY, RELIABILITY & EXECUTION ENGINE

MAJOR RELEASES & CROSS-ORG ALIGNMENT

REQUIREMENTS

• Must-haves
• Platform product experience: You have 5+ years in Product, with at least 2 to 3 years on platform, infrastructure, developer-facing, or backend/API products.
• Technical depth: You're credible with senior engineers. You can reason about distributed systems, execution models, and reliability/scalability trade-offs, and hold your own in an architecture discussion. You're at home with non-functional requirements, where the details are the product.
• Complex delivery track record: You've led cross-team technical initiatives with real delivery risk, ideally including a migration or breaking change.
• Prioritization under ambiguity: You make trade-offs explicit and connect foundational or technical-debt work to customer and commercial outcomes.
• Ownership and autonomy: You grab problems without being asked, fix what you see broken, and drive outcomes without waiting for direction.
• Exceptional communication: You make complex platform topics understandable for technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Enterprise platform reality: You understand what running software in customer-controlled environments means, including self-hosted, air-gapped, and restricted deployments
• Nice-to-haves
• Hands-on ability: You can read code or prototype, even if you're not shipping it.
• Enterprise exposure: You've worked with B2B SaaS requirements like security, compliance, or deployment complexity.
• Security partnership: You're comfortable working with security teams on code execution, isolation, or compliance topics.
• Domain familiarity: You know workflow automation, orchestration, or open-source / developer-community products.
• Writing culture: You default to writing things down to create clarity and alignment.
• 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 ).

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.
• 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 premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.
• 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 premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.
• Future planning 💰 – Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.* US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
• Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*
• US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
• Financial security 🛡️ – Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.* US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.
• US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.
• Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
• A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!
• Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.
• Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
• AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.
• Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.
• * Country-specific details are provided in your contract.