[Hiring] Senior Product Manager - Core Platform @n8n

Role Description

Your main goal will be to make n8n's Core Platform ready for the company's next stage of growth: more scalable, reliable, secure, and flexible as customer usage and technical complexity increase. You'll own the foundations that everything else, including our AI and agent capabilities, is built on.

To do so, here are your 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, 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.
• 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 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.
• 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, 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.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Product, with at least 2 to 3 years on platform, infrastructure, developer-facing, or backend/API products.
• Credible with senior engineers; able to reason about distributed systems, execution models, and reliability/scalability trade-offs.
• 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.
• Proactively grab problems without being asked 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.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: Fair and attractive pay.
• Ownership: Get a slice of n8n with equity.
• Work/life balance:
  • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays.
  • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays.
• Health & wellness:
  • Europe: Benefits according to local country norms.
  • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families.
• Future planning:
  • Europe: Pension contributions according to local country norms.
  • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
• Financial security:
  • Europe: Benefits according to local country norms.
  • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance.
• Career growth: €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching.
• A passionate team: Regular hackathons to build cool things.
• Remote-first: Team works remotely across Europe with regular off-sites.
• Giving back: $100 per month to support open source projects.
• AI enablement: Unlimited AI budget to explore and use productivity tools.
• Transparency: Everyone knows what everyone’s working on and how the company is doing.