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About the role
- Enable n8n to build a high-output, low-drag organization—clear roles, crisp performance standards, and capable managers.
- Act as the primary People Partner to 1–2 departments, supporting managers on performance, development, morale, and communication.
- Coach managers through tough conversations, feedback, conflict, and team challenges — with a focus on fairness and accountability.
- Build confidence through informal coaching, playbooks, and toolkits that make doing the right thing easier.
- Support capability-building through targeted resources (e.g., micro-trainings, manager guides).
- Support the full employee lifecycle: hiring, onboarding, goal setting, development, retention, and exits.
- Guide performance processes: setting clear expectations, driving regular feedback, and managing reviews and underperformance.
- Lead on employee relations cases with a focus on consistency, documentation, and legal compliance.
- Ensure policies are current, clearly understood, and consistently applied across teams and geographies.
- Partner with managers to build strong, inclusive team cultures based on trust, feedback, and psychological safety.
- Help managers interpret engagement feedback and follow through with actionable improvements.
- Champion initiatives that promote employee well-being and values alignment.
- Support org changes (e.g., team growth, re-orgs) with clear communication and team-level enablement.
- Spot and synthesize patterns across performance, engagement, attrition, and ER themes.
- Provide practical, data-informed recommendations to managers and leadership.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to improve people processes, reduce friction, and scale what works.
Requirements
- 🧭 People Partner experience (5+ years): You’ve owned a senior IC scope partnering with leaders and influencing org, performance, and talent decisions.
- 📜 Professional certification: You hold SHRM-CP/SCP, CIPD, or an equivalent credential.
- 🧑🏫 Manager coaching depth: You’re known for elevating managers on goals, continuous feedback, and development planning.
- ⚖️ Complex ER leadership: You’ve led sensitive cases (terminations, layoffs, restructures, works councils) with rigor and fairness.
- 🧩 Performance frameworks: You’ve implemented goals/reviews/feedback cycles and led calibrations that drive consistency.
- 📚 Employment law knowledge: You understand UK, US, or German employment law and know when to escalate to Legal.
- 🔧 Change enablement: You’ve supported re-orgs and process change, balancing speed with adoption.
- 📑 Policy builder: You spot gaps and keep policies current, practical, and consistently applied.
- 🗣️ Influence & credibility: You communicate crisply with managers/executives, earning trust and driving decisions.
- 🏗️ Org & role architecture: You’ve been hands-on in org design, role leveling, and re-org work.
- 📈 Engagement partner: You’ve run survey follow-through and culture-shaping initiatives that land real actions.
- 💬 Compensation communication: You guide managers on offers, adjustments, and comp narratives with clarity.
- 🧠 Sales business partnering background: You’ve partnered closely with Sales/GTM teams and can navigate the pace and ambiguity of revenue orgs.
- 🌍 International & remote experience: You’ve supported distributed teams across EU/UK/US.
- 🏛️ Works council familiarity: You understand regional nuances and WC engagement.
- 🧮 People analytics savvy: You’re comfortable interpreting metrics and turning them into decisions.
- ⚙️ High-growth SaaS background: You’ve partnered in product-led or hypergrowth tech environments.
- 📘 Manager enablement design: You’ve built/delivered trainings, toolkits, or playbooks at scale.
- 🧱 Succession exposure: You’ve supported successor identification and development planning.
- 🧑💻 Tech business partnering background: You’ve partnered closely with Engineering/Product teams.
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: 15 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.
- Future planning 💰 –
- 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.
- 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.
- An ambitious but kind culture 😍 – People love working here—our eNPS for 2024 is 94!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
People Partner experienceManager coachingComplex ER leadershipPerformance frameworksEmployment law knowledgeChange enablementPolicy buildingPeople analyticsHigh-growth SaaS backgroundManager enablement design
Soft skills
InfluenceCredibilityCommunicationTrust buildingConflict resolutionCoachingTeam culture buildingData-informed recommendationsCollaborationAdaptability
Certifications
SHRM-CPSHRM-SCPCIPD