Director of Engineering

n8n

Lead and scale n8n’s engineering organization while shaping product experiences in an AI-native environment.

Posted 5/4/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇪 GermanyLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptNode.jsTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Your main goal will be to lead and scale n8n’s Core Experience engineering organization - helping a broad, growing set of product teams deliver excellent user experiences, strong technical foundations, and ambitious AI-native product innovation.
To do so, you’ll lead a significant and expanding part of our engineering organization, supporting multiple leaders and their teams (AI, Nodes, Community, and Adoption & Retention) while shaping how we build product experiences in a fast-moving, AI-native environment.
Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams
Lead and develop multiple engineering teams across Core Experience
Design the organization for scale across a multi-team area that includes established product surfaces and a growing cluster of AI-focused teams.
Foster a high-performance, high-ownership culture where engineers can do ambitious work, grow quickly, and stay closely connected to product impact.
Drive technical strategy and product execution
Set technical direction across your area, helping teams make sound architectural decisions and trade-offs.
Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to translate strategy into clear priorities and execution.
Ensure teams deliver meaningful outcomes with the right balance of speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.
Shape AI-native product development
Support and guide teams building AI-powered product experiences, especially where we are harnessing LLMs in the product.
Bring informed judgment to the opportunities and pitfalls of AI product development, helping teams move proactively and responsibly.
Help shape how n8n builds products that both leverage AI internally and enable customers to build powerful AI workflows and agents themselves.
Build clarity, alignment, and engineering excellence
Create the conditions for teams to operate effectively through growth, ambiguity, and changing priorities.
Coach leaders and teams toward strong execution, healthy collaboration, and consistently high engineering standards.
Represent the Core Experience area within the broader engineering leadership team and align its direction with company goals.

Requirements

What you’ll need

🌱 Engineering leadership at scale: You have several years of experience leading multiple engineering teams and directly managing Engineering Managers in a high-growth product organization.
🧭 Technical strategy and roadmap ownership: You know how to set direction across a broad product area and turn technical strategy into clear priorities and outcomes.
🏗️ Strong technical credibility: You have a strong engineering background and can contribute meaningfully to architecture discussions and technical decision-making.
🤝 Coaching and people leadership: You’re known for developing leaders, giving clear feedback, and helping teams grow in ownership, performance, and judgement.
🚀 Product engineering experience: You’ve led product engineering teams that shipped meaningful user-facing experiences in a fast-moving SaaS environment.
🤖 AI product exposure: You’ve worked on AI-native products or led teams building AI-powered product experiences, and can help navigate the opportunities and pitfalls of this space.
🌐 Distributed leadership experience: You’re comfortable leading teams across countries in a remote-first environment.
⚖️ Execution and quality mindset: You’ve built systems and ways of working that improve delivery, maintain quality, and keep teams focused on meaningful outcomes.
🏢 Experience in growth-stage companies: You’ve worked in a scaling company and have seen the organizational growing pains that come with building teams and processes at pace.
🧩 Developer tools or workflow automation experience (Nice-to-have): You’re excited by technical products and have worked on developer platforms, automation tools, or adjacent categories.
🌍 Open-source or developer tooling interest (Nice-to-have): You’re excited by technical products, builder communities, and the challenges that come with extensible software and automation.
🛠️ TypeScript / Node.js familiarity (Nice-to-have): You have experience with JavaScript or TypeScript and could quickly build context in our stack.
💡 Strong product sense (Nice-to-have): You know how to partner deeply with Product and Design and can help teams make smart trade-offs in user-facing areas.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 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!

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI product developmenttechnical strategyarchitecture decision-makingproduct engineeringSaaS environmentTypeScriptNode.jsworkflow automationdeveloper tools

Soft Skills

engineering leadershipcoachingpeople leadershipfeedbackperformance managementjudgmentcollaborationexecution mindsetquality mindset