About the company
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
Responsibilities
- Lead the full design process for your team, from discovery to polished delivery, collaborating closely with PMs and engineers.
- Consistently ship high-quality, visually cohesive designs that improve the overall UX at every release.
- Work effectively on complex features with a strong engineering mindset and understanding of the underlying technology.
- Take ownership of complex, multi-faceted problems and drive them to completion with initiative and autonomy.
- Champion the user by running interviews, usability tests, and research to inform critical product and business decisions.
- Master the feedback loop by gathering, synthesizing, and acting on input while giving actionable critique to elevate teammates’ work.
- Balance speed and quality in an MVP-driven environment, navigating ambiguity while maintaining a high bar.
- Design in systems, integrating solutions into the broader n8n platform and safeguarding the product’s big picture.
- Account for edge cases, constraints, and interaction details so users never end up in impossible states.
- Collaborate across teams and designers to ensure consistency and quality across shared patterns and components.
- Shape team strategy by influencing planning, prioritization, and scope with a strong design perspective tied to KPIs.
- Explore and adopt AI and automation tools to push the boundaries of design practice and AI-powered workflows.
Requirements
- Product design excellence: You’re proficient across product design, UX, UI, and qualitative research, delivering polished, detail-oriented work.
- Technical mindset: You collaborate effectively with engineers and understand how software is built, including common web technologies.
- Ownership & delivery: You’ve shipped end-to-end features in smaller teams or startups and can drive complex problems to measurable outcomes.
- Fast, focused execution: You operate at high speed in an MVP-driven environment, balancing quality and velocity amid ambiguity.
- Outcome orientation: You use research and metrics to inform decisions and consistently deliver solutions that enable team KPIs.
- Feedback & collaboration: You’re open and non-defensive in critique and provide actionable feedback that raises the team’s bar.
- Curiosity for AI: You’re enthusiastic about AI and innovation, actively exploring new tools and approaches to advance the craft.
- Experience level: You have 5+ years in product design with demonstrable impact on shipped products.
Nice-to-haves:
- Front-end fluency: You can prototype or collaborate using HTML/CSS/JavaScript frameworks.
- AI & automation domain knowledge.