n8n
n8n
n8n is a secure, AI-native workflow automation company building flexible tools for technical teams. Its platform connects business systems and supports complex, multi-step workflows and autonomous AI agents across areas such as IT, security, and sales operations. Developers can extend automations with JavaScript or Python, choose between self-hosted and cloud deployments, and use n8n’s open-source foundation to manage everything from everyday processes to enterprise and mission-critical automation. The company’s hiring context centers on a technical product that serves organizations seeking greater control, extensibility, and efficiency in how they design and run automated workflows.

Product Design Manager — Germany Remote

Lead n8n’s Product Design team as it shapes an AI-powered workflow automation platform. Raise design quality, develop designers, and influence product direction within a remote-first European organization.

Description

  • Lead and grow n8n’s Product Design team
  • Manage product designers, design engineers, and user researchers at varying levels of seniority
  • Hold regular one-to-ones and provide ongoing coaching
  • Lead evidence-based performance reviews and deliver candid feedback
  • Own and advance the career progression framework for Product Design
  • Recruit outstanding designers while expanding the team’s range of backgrounds and perspectives
  • Establish and uphold standards for problem framing, user research, interaction design, information architecture, and visual execution
  • Run design critiques and reviews that strengthen the quality of the work
  • Help designers build sound judgment and greater autonomy
  • Maintain an end-to-end view of the product experience and resolve fragmented UX
  • Work with Product and Engineering leaders to define problems and shape product direction
  • Strengthen processes for critique, collaboration, decision-making, and sharing knowledge
  • Report to the VP of Product until the Head of Design joins
  • Take on occasional exploratory or gap-filling design assignments outside product squads
  • Support hiring through candidate presentations, live critiques, coaching, and reference checks

Requirements

  • At least three years of experience managing product designers in a product-led technology company
  • Experience managing a team of five or more
  • Demonstrated ability to run one-to-ones and evidence-based performance reviews, handle difficult feedback, and manage performance
  • Experience creating or improving a designer career progression framework
  • Background in coaching and mentoring designers and facilitating effective critiques
  • Strong design craft, taste, and professional judgment
  • Experience hiring designers
  • Hands-on experience with AI tools and a well-informed view of AI-enabled products
  • Preferred: experience with B2B SaaS, developer tools, workflow automation, or comparable technical products
  • Preferred: curiosity about APIs, webhooks, data structures, and workflow execution
  • Preferred: experience designing products for developers or technical operators
  • Preferred: systems thinking, influencing without formal authority, scaling teams, distributed work, open source, and inclusive hiring
  • English is the company’s working language
  • Applicants outside Germany must already have the right to work in their country

Benefits

  • Equity ownership in n8n
  • 30 days of vacation in Europe, in addition to local public holidays
  • Benefits aligned with local country standards across Europe
  • Pension contributions based on local country standards across Europe
  • €1,000 or equivalent each year for courses, books, events, or coaching
  • Regular hackathons
  • Remote-first work arrangement across Europe
  • Regular off-sites for team connection
  • $100 monthly contribution to open-source projects
  • Transparent company culture
  • Visa sponsorship in Germany

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