Product Manager

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

• Own the Core Platform strategy and roadmap in partnership with Engineering and Product leadership.
• Prioritize foundational investments based on customer impact, enterprise needs, technical risk, and engineering effort, and make trade-offs between near-term customer needs, technical debt, and long-term architecture explicit.
• Lead product discovery for technically complex problems, engaging directly with enterprise customers and internal customer-facing teams.
• Drive work on the scalability and reliability of n8n's execution engine, including areas like worker pools and distributed execution.
• Improve the reliability of triggers and execution behaviour across complex deployment setups, from multi-main Cloud environments to self-hosted enterprise installations.
• Shape a more secure and flexible approach to executing code within n8n.
• Drive the planning and release of major or breaking platform versions, including migration strategy, stakeholder communication, and risk management.
• Establish clear success measures and keep the squad accountable for outcomes, not only delivery.
• Act as the bridge between the Core team and the wider org: Product, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and Support, making platform trade-offs legible without oversimplifying them.
• Treat internal product teams as customers of the platform: proactively mine their roadmaps for implicit platform requirements and turn cross-cutting needs into explicit Core Platform work before they become blockers.

Must-haves:

• 5+ years in Product, with at least 2 to 3 years on platform, infrastructure, developer-facing, or backend/API products.
• Credible with senior engineers. Can reason about distributed systems, execution models, and reliability/scalability trade-offs, and hold your own in an architecture discussion. At home with non-functional requirements, where the details are the product.
• Led cross-team technical initiatives with real delivery risk, ideally including a migration or breaking change.
• Make trade-offs explicit and connect foundational or technical-debt work to customer and commercial outcomes.
• Grab problems without being asked, fix what you see broken, and drive outcomes without waiting for direction.
• Make complex platform topics understandable for technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Understand what running software in customer-controlled environments means, including self-hosted, air-gapped, and restricted deployments.

Nice-to-haves:

• Can read code or prototype, even if you're not shipping it.
• Worked with B2B SaaS requirements like security, compliance, or deployment complexity.
• Comfortable working with security teams on code execution, isolation, or compliance topics.
• Know workflow automation, orchestration, or open-source / developer-community products.
• Default to writing things down to create clarity and alignment.

• We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.
• Our company language is English.