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Leading AI agent and workflow development for an open orchestration platform. First-line engineering management experience required. Visa sponsorship for Germany, 30 days vacation.
Requirements
- First-line engineering management experience
- Experience leading teams delivering automation platforms, workflow systems, or AI features
- Significant experience with Evaluations & driving results
- Strong people leadership and coaching skills
- Ability to build thriving teams in ambiguous, evolving spaces
- Comfort with ambiguity and speed
- Ability to bring clarity in emerging agent patterns, tooling, and best practices
- Strong software engineering background
- Ability to discuss distributed systems, APIs, and system design
- Willingness to dive into workflow logic, integrations, or AI systems
- Cross-functional alignment experience
- Experience working with Product and Design on end-user-facing builder experiences
- High-growth SaaS experience
- Understanding of scaling teams and systems in fast-moving environments
- AI/agent exposure
- Experience with LLMs, agents, or automation systems
- Understanding of AI/agent strengths, limitations, and failure modes
- n8n or workflow tooling familiarity
- Experience with n8n or similar automation platforms
- Integration-heavy systems background
- Background in building or scaling API-driven platforms or extensible systems
- Deep agent experience
- Hands-on work with agent frameworks, tool use, memory systems, or multi-step reasoning workflows
- Observability & debugging experience
- Experience building tools for inspecting, debugging, and improving complex workflows or AI systems
- Responsible AI awareness
- Awareness of guardrails, failure handling, and safe automation practices in user-facing AI systems
Tasks
- Build and lead an engineering team
- Empower engineers on their growth path
- Align stakeholders and foster confidence
- Lead teams on AI agents and workflows
- Develop agent-based systems and orchestration capabilities
- Foster a culture of experimentation and iteration
- Improve prompts, tool usage, and workflow logic
- Design reliable agentic workflows
- Support hiring and team shaping
- Navigate emerging AI and orchestration patterns
- Translate AI capabilities into product direction
- Guide agent architecture decisions
- Focus on real, reliable user value
- Partner with Product and Design
- Define and ship intuitive workflows
- Deliver end-to-end agent systems
- Establish best practices for reliability
- Balance speed with determinism and trust
- Drive improvements in workflow building
- Lead with technical credibility
- Mentor and challenge the team
- Support architectural decisions
- Handle long-running workflows and APIs
- Step into technical details as needed
- Promote safety and predictable behavior
Work Experience
- approx. 4 - 6 years
Education
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
- automation platforms
- workflow systems
- AI-powered features
- LLMs
- agents
- automation systems
- n8n
- workflow tooling
- API-driven platforms
- extensible systems
- agent frameworks
- tool use
- memory systems
- multi-step reasoning workflows
Benefits
Other Benefits
- Visa sponsorship for Germany
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance (US)
- Life insurance (US)
- Transparency
Competitive Pay
- Equity
More Vacation Days
- 30 days of vacation (Europe)
Healthcare & Fitness
- Health benefits according to local country norms (Europe)
- Low-premium medical plans (US)
- Dental and vision coverage (US)
Retirement Plans
- Pension contributions according to local country norms (Europe)
- 401(k) retirement plan with 4% employer match (US)
Additional Allowances
- 1000 EUR yearly budget for professional development
- 100 USD per month for open source support
- Unlimited AI budget
Team Events
- Hackathons
Flexible Working
- Remote-first
Informal Culture
- Ambitious but kind culture
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Leading AI agent and workflow development for an open orchestration platform. First-line engineering management experience required. Visa sponsorship for Germany, 30 days vacation.
Requirements
- First-line engineering management experience
- Experience leading teams delivering automation platforms, workflow systems, or AI features
- Significant experience with Evaluations & driving results
- Strong people leadership and coaching skills
- Ability to build thriving teams in ambiguous, evolving spaces
- Comfort with ambiguity and speed
- Ability to bring clarity in emerging agent patterns, tooling, and best practices
- Strong software engineering background
- Ability to discuss distributed systems, APIs, and system design
- Willingness to dive into workflow logic, integrations, or AI systems
- Cross-functional alignment experience
- Experience working with Product and Design on end-user-facing builder experiences
- High-growth SaaS experience
- Understanding of scaling teams and systems in fast-moving environments
- AI/agent exposure
- Experience with LLMs, agents, or automation systems
- Understanding of AI/agent strengths, limitations, and failure modes
- n8n or workflow tooling familiarity
- Experience with n8n or similar automation platforms
- Integration-heavy systems background
- Background in building or scaling API-driven platforms or extensible systems
- Deep agent experience
- Hands-on work with agent frameworks, tool use, memory systems, or multi-step reasoning workflows
- Observability & debugging experience
- Experience building tools for inspecting, debugging, and improving complex workflows or AI systems
- Responsible AI awareness
- Awareness of guardrails, failure handling, and safe automation practices in user-facing AI systems
Tasks
- Build and lead an engineering team
- Empower engineers on their growth path
- Align stakeholders and foster confidence
- Lead teams on AI agents and workflows
- Develop agent-based systems and orchestration capabilities
- Foster a culture of experimentation and iteration
- Improve prompts, tool usage, and workflow logic
- Design reliable agentic workflows
- Support hiring and team shaping
- Navigate emerging AI and orchestration patterns
- Translate AI capabilities into product direction
- Guide agent architecture decisions
- Focus on real, reliable user value
- Partner with Product and Design
- Define and ship intuitive workflows
- Deliver end-to-end agent systems
- Establish best practices for reliability
- Balance speed with determinism and trust
- Drive improvements in workflow building
- Lead with technical credibility
- Mentor and challenge the team
- Support architectural decisions
- Handle long-running workflows and APIs
- Step into technical details as needed
- Promote safety and predictable behavior
Work Experience
- approx. 4 - 6 years
Education
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
- automation platforms
- workflow systems
- AI-powered features
- LLMs
- agents
- automation systems
- n8n
- workflow tooling
- API-driven platforms
- extensible systems
- agent frameworks
- tool use
- memory systems
- multi-step reasoning workflows
Benefits
Other Benefits
- Visa sponsorship for Germany
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance (US)
- Life insurance (US)
- Transparency
Competitive Pay
- Equity
More Vacation Days
- 30 days of vacation (Europe)
Healthcare & Fitness
- Health benefits according to local country norms (Europe)
- Low-premium medical plans (US)
- Dental and vision coverage (US)
Retirement Plans
- Pension contributions according to local country norms (Europe)
- 401(k) retirement plan with 4% employer match (US)
Additional Allowances
- 1000 EUR yearly budget for professional development
- 100 USD per month for open source support
- Unlimited AI budget
Team Events
- Hackathons
Flexible Working
- Remote-first
Informal Culture
- Ambitious but kind culture
About the Company
n8n
Industry
IT
Description
n8n is an open AI workflow orchestration platform that empowers technical teams to automate faster and smarter.
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