Senior/Staff Product Designer

Strategy, impact, and innovation

• Shape team strategy by influencing planning, prioritization, and scope with a strong design perspective tied to KPIs.

• Explore and adopt AI and automation tools to push the boundaries of design practice and AI-powered workflows.

Must-haves

• 🎨 Product design excellence: You're proficient across product design, UX, UI, and qualitative research, delivering polished, detail-oriented work.

• 🧠 Technical mindset: You collaborate effectively with engineers and understand how software is built, including common web technologies. You don't need to write code, but you do need genuine curiosity about what's happening underneath - APIs, webhooks, data structures and how workflows actually execute.

• 🧭 Ownership & delivery: You've shipped end-to-end features in smaller teams or startups and can drive complex problems to measurable outcomes.

• ⚡ Fast, focused execution: You operate at high speed in an MVP-driven environment, balancing quality and velocity amid ambiguity.

• 📈 Outcome orientation: You use research and metrics to inform decisions and consistently deliver solutions that enable team KPIs.

• 🤝 Feedback & collaboration: You're open and non-defensive in critique and provide actionable feedback that raises the team's bar.

• 🧪 Curiosity for AI: You're enthusiastic about AI and innovation, actively exploring new tools and approaches to advance the craft.

• 📅 Experience level: You have 5+ years in product design with demonstrable impact on shipped products.

Nice-to-haves

• 💻 Front-end fluency: You can prototype using HTML/CSS/JavaScript, with or without AI coding tools, and can collaborate effectively with engineers on the result.

• 🧩 AI & automation domain: You've designed AI or automation products; familiarity with n8n is a plus.

• 🔁 Process improvement: You proactively refine team rituals and workflows to increase effectiveness.

• 📚 Continuous growth: You invest in your craft and are motivated by creating tangible product and company impact.

• 🔎 Discovery frameworks: You know methodologies like Continuous Discovery or Shape Up.

• 📊 Data-informed design: You're comfortable with metrics, A/B testing, or SQL to guide decisions.

• 🚀 Entrepreneurial drive: You've built startups or side projects that show initiative and creative problem-solving.

Why join us?

At n8n, your work won't disappear into a slide deck. You'll lead high-impact design across core product surfaces, shaping AI-powered workflows, enterprise governance and billing, and how people discover and adopt n8n, from discovery to delivery. You'll join a fast-growing, Europe remote-first company where autonomy, experimentation, and craft matter, partnering closely with PMs and engineers to ship real outcomes to a passionate global community.

Sound like a challenge you're excited to take on?

Apply now and help us build the future of automation.

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).

Benefits

• Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.

• Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.

• 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.

• Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.

• A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!

• 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 job description.

• 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 and/or State specific details provided in your employment agreement.