Job Overview
Location
Berlin Office
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data Science
Date Posted
May 26, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead a team of 14 designers, including 2 Design Leads managing ~6 ICs each, plus Design Engineering and UX Research, and own hiring, headcount planning, and team structure evolution.
- • Set and elevate the design quality bar by establishing clear review processes, critique rituals, and QA practices that enable consistent, high-standard outputs as the team scales.
- • Own the evolution of n8n’s design system and ensure its alignment with product complexity, user needs, and engineering implementation across technical and non-technical user segments.
- • Drive the strategic shift of n8n from a developer-centric platform to a broader builder audience, lowering the learning curve without sacrificing the power features loved by advanced users.
- • Embed design thinking into product strategy by actively participating in roadmap discussions, surfacing user problems before they become formal briefs, and ensuring design is a co-equal voice in leadership decisions.
- • Build and institutionalize a pragmatic, continuous UX research practice from the ground up, integrating customer insights, product data, and community feedback directly into decision-making cycles.
- • Use product analytics, research findings, and behavioral data to guide design decisions—replacing opinion-based choices with evidence-driven outcomes focused on activation, adoption, and retention.
- • Champion the adoption of AI tools within the design org for prototyping, research synthesis, design QA, and workflow efficiency, modeling adaptive and curious working habits in a rapidly evolving AI landscape.
- • Establish strong, trusted partnerships with Product, Engineering, and executive leadership to ensure design is a strategic thought partner at every stage of product development.
- • Define clear career progression paths and performance management frameworks that support designer growth, accountability, and retention while maintaining high standards.
- • Foster a culture of honest feedback, psychological safety, and craft excellence where designers feel supported to take ownership and deliver exceptional work.
- • Promote practical AI adoption across design workflows, staying current with emerging patterns in AI-powered tools and translating them into usable, trustworthy product experiences.
- • Ensure design decisions are informed by real user behavior, not assumptions, by connecting research insights to key product metrics and user journey touchpoints.
- • Support the expansion of n8n’s global, remote-first design team by implementing collaboration, critique, and QA rituals that function effectively across time zones and distributed environments.
- • Maintain deep fluency in complex, developer-facing product systems where UX quality hinges on understanding technical workflows, integrations, and automation logic.
- • Advocate for and model transparency in decision-making, ensuring the entire team understands company goals, product direction, and design priorities.
🎯 Requirements
- • Managed managers and coached senior designers while building teams that improved both craft and business outcomes
- • Led design for complex or developer-facing products with deep product understanding required for UX quality
- • Established and enforced a high design quality bar through direct critique, standards, and accountability
- • Made design a co-equal partner in product strategy, not a downstream function
- • Solved ambiguous, unstructured problems with clear plans and decisive action
- • Demonstrated understanding of AI, automation, or adjacent tooling landscapes and translated them into usable product experiences
- • Built research into product development so insights directly inform decisions
- • Used product analytics, research, and customer evidence to guide decisions over personal taste
- • Designed team structures, career paths, and managed performance conversations with clarity
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive compensation with equity ownership
- • 30 days of vacation plus public holidays in Europe; 20 vacation days + 8 sick days + public holidays in the US
- • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with low-premium, low-deductible plans and a no-cost premium HDHP + pre-seeded HSA in the US
- • 4% employer match on 401(k) retirement plan in the US
- • €1,000 annual stipend for courses, books, events, or coaching
- • $100 monthly stipend to support open-source projects
- • Unlimited AI budget for productivity and creativity tools
- • Transparency into company goals, performance, and team work
Skills & Technologies
GitHub
Remote
About n8n GmbH
n8n GmbH provides open-source workflow automation software that enables technical teams to connect applications and APIs without writing extensive code. The Berlin-based company offers a fair-code licensed platform for building, deploying and monitoring integrations, ETL pipelines and business processes. It combines visual node-based editing with JavaScript flexibility, supports hundreds of pre-built integrations, and can be self-hosted or used via cloud. Founded in 2019, n8n serves developers, IT departments and digital agencies seeking cost-effective alternatives to proprietary automation tools.
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