Senior Product Manager - Core Platform (Engine, Scale & Reliability)

About the Position

Senior Product Manager - Core Platform (Engine, Scale & Reliability)

We are seeking a seasoned Senior Product Manager to join our dynamic team at n8n, the open workflow orchestration platform. Your role will be pivotal in making our Core Platform more scalable, reliable, secure, and flexible as we continue to grow and innovate.

Location

Berlin, Germany (Remote)

Employment Type

Full-time

Department

Product Management

Compensation

• Western/Northern Europe: €89.7K - €152.3K per year
• Southern Europe: €100.9K - €119.2K per year
• Central/Eastern Europe: €89.7K - €105.9K per year
• United Kingdom: £106.6K - £136.7K per year
• Republic of Ireland: €128.9K - €152.3K per year

Offers Equity

Responsibilities

Own the Core Platform Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and communicate the product strategy and roadmap for the Core Platform in partnership with Engineering and Product leadership.
• Prioritize foundational investments based on customer impact, enterprise needs, technical risk, and engineering effort.
• Lead product discovery for technically complex problems, engaging directly with enterprise customers and internal customer-facing teams.

Scalability, Reliability & Execution Engine

• 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 behavior across complex deployment setups.
• Shape a more secure and flexible approach to executing code within n8n.

Major Releases & Cross-Org Alignment

• 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.
• Act as the bridge between the Core team and the wider organization: Product, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and Support.

Requirements

Must-Haves

• Platform product experience: 5+ years in Product, with at least 2 to 3 years on platform, infrastructure, developer-facing, or backend/API products.
• Technical depth: Credible with senior engineers, capable of reasoning about distributed systems, execution models, and reliability/scalability trade-offs.
• Complex delivery track record: Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives with real delivery risk.
• Prioritization under ambiguity: Ability to make trade-offs explicit and connect foundational or technical-debt work to customer and commercial outcomes.
• Ownership and autonomy: Proactive in identifying and fixing problems, driving outcomes without waiting for direction.
• Exceptional communication: Ability to make complex platform topics understandable for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Enterprise platform reality: Understanding of running software in customer-controlled environments, including self-hosted, air-gapped, and restricted deployments.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on ability: Ability to read code or prototype, even if not shipping it.
• Enterprise exposure: Experience with B2B SaaS requirements like security, compliance, or deployment complexity.
• Security partnership: Comfortable working with security teams on code execution, isolation, or compliance topics.
• Domain familiarity: Knowledge of workflow automation, orchestration, or open-source/developer-community products.
• Writing culture: Default to writing things down to create clarity and alignment.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation 💸
• Ownership 💪 – Equity in n8n
• Work/life balance 🏖️ – Generous vacation days and public holidays
• Health & wellness 🩺 – Comprehensive health benefits
• Future planning 💰 – Pension contributions and 401(k) retirement plan
• Financial security 🛡️ – Disability and life insurance
• Career growth 📈 – €1K (or equivalent) per year for professional development
• A passionate team 🤩 – Regular hackathons and team bonding events
• Remote-first 🌏 – Flexible remote work with regular off-sites
• Giving back 🤝 – $100 per month to support open-source projects
• Transparency 🙏 – Open communication about company and team progress

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.

Our company language is English.

You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n (https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35).

Location disclaimer: 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. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future.