The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. Along the way, we’ve:Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and buildersEarned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projectsBacked by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuationThat’s the company we’ve built. cloud/register.n8n sits at one of the most interesting UX problems in software right now: more than 80% of workflows built on n8n today involve AI agents, and the platform is in the middle of a deliberate expansion from deeply technical developers toward a broader set of builders. That tension, keeping power users happy while dramatically lowering the floor, is the central design challenge.What you'll doOwn the quality barSet a clear, consistent quality bar that the team can orient around and build toward, so great work becomes the natural output of how we design together.Build review processes and critique rituals that give the team a shared language for quality and the confidence to make strong craft decisions together.Evolve the design system and QA practices so the bar rises as the team grows.Dig into one of the most genuinely interesting UX challenges in the space: n8n has historically had a steep learning curve for new users.
Drive design's strategic influenceShape product strategy, not just respond to it. Bring design thinking into roadmap conversations and help surface user problems before they become someone else's brief.Help lead n8n's expansion toward a broader, less technical audience, a deliberate and exciting strategic shift that design should be leading.Build the kind of relationships with Product, Engineering, and leadership where design is a genuine thought partner at every stage.2 Design Leads each working with ~6 ICs, plus Design Engineering and UX Research (with more hires ahead).Shape the team structure, career framework, and progression paths so people know where they stand and where they're going.Build research into how we make decisionsEstablish a pragmatic,
continuous research practice from the ground up. We're making our first dedicated UX research hires, so there's real room to shape this.Make customer insight, product data, and community feedback a live input to product decisions, so teams are building from evidence at every step.Connect research to the decisions that matter most: activation, adoption, retention, and helping new users find their way into n8n with confidence.Help the team work in new waysChampion practical AI adoption inside the design org, from prototyping and research synthesis to design QA and workflow efficiency.RequirementsMust-havesProduct design leadership: You have managed managers, coached senior designers, and built design teams that improve both craft and business outcomes, including making hard performance calls when needed.You have led design across complex or developer-facing products where UX quality depends on deep product understanding.Craft authority: You are a quality bar, not just someone who appreciates quality.
You have made design a co-equal in product conversations, not a downstream function. You understand the AI, automation, or adjacent tooling landscape and can turn emerging patterns into usable, trustworthy product experiences.Research literacy: You know how to build research into product development so insight becomes part of how teams make decisions, not a separate artifact.Data-informed decision making: You use product analytics, research, and customer evidence to guide decisions instead of relying on taste or opinion alone.Org design and performance management: You can design team structures, define career paths, raise expectations, and handle difficult performance conversations with clarity.You have worked on open-source, fair-code, community-led,
or builder-driven products and understand what it means to design for a community that has strong opinions.Design engineering credibility: You have enough front-end or design engineering fluency to partner deeply on design system adoption and implementation quality.Remote-first operating systems: You have built design rituals, critique, QA, and collaboration practices that work across distributed teams and time zones.Rising Design Manager profile: We are open to someone who has been an exceptional Design Manager and is ready for their first Head-level role, if the fundamentals are exceptional.We can sponsor visas to Germany; Our company language is English.If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. 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.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 .Giving back - We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.Transparency - We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.
Country-specific details are provided in your contract.Compensation Range: 125K - 271.9KLocationBerlin Office; London Office;
📌 Product Manager - Work from home (Madrid)
🏢 n8n
📍 Madrid