Senior Product Manager – Core Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Enhance n8n’s Core Platform to ensure it is scalable, dependable, secure, and adaptable for the company's upcoming growth phase.

• Take charge of the Core Platform's product strategy and roadmap in collaboration with Engineering and Product leadership.

• Determine priorities for foundational investments based on customer impact, enterprise requirements, technical risks, and engineering efforts.

• Lead product discovery initiatives for technically intricate challenges faced by enterprise clients and internal customer-facing teams.

• Oversee efforts to improve scalability and reliability of the execution engine, which includes managing worker pools and facilitating distributed execution.

• Enhance trigger reliability and execution performance for both Cloud and self-hosted enterprise deployments.

• Develop secure and adaptable code execution methodologies.

• Organize and launch major or impactful platform versions, including migrations, stakeholder communications, and risk management strategies.

• Define success metrics and ensure the squad is accountable for achieving these outcomes.

• Connect the Core team with Product, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, and Support teams.

• Recognize cross-functional platform requirements in internal product roadmaps and translate them into actionable Core Platform initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Product management.

• A minimum of 2 to 3 years of experience working on platform, infrastructure, developer-focused, or backend/API products.

• Proficiency in reasoning about distributed systems, execution models, and the trade-offs related to reliability and scalability.

• Capability to engage credibly in architecture discussions with senior engineers.

• Knowledge of non-functional requirements.

• Proven track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives that involve delivery risks, ideally including migrations or significant changes.

• Ability to prioritize tasks amidst ambiguity and connect foundational efforts to customer and commercial results.

• Strong sense of ownership, autonomy, and the ability to drive results independently.

• Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Familiarity with self-hosted, air-gapped, restricted, and customer-controlled deployment environments.

• Nice to have: proficiency in reading code or creating prototypes.

• Nice to have: experience in B2B SaaS enterprise settings with a focus on security, compliance, or deployment intricacies.

• Nice to have: experience collaborating with security teams on code execution, isolation, or compliance matters.

• Nice to have: knowledge of workflow automation, orchestration, open-source, or products within the developer community.

• Nice to have: a writing-first approach for improved clarity and alignment.

• For applicants outside of Germany, a valid right to work is required.

• The company operates in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary package.

• Equity ownership in n8n.

• In Europe: 30 days of vacation, in addition to public holidays, regardless of your location.

• In Europe: Benefits aligned with local country standards.

• In Europe: Pension contributions according to local country standards.

• An annual budget of €1K (or equivalent) for courses, books, events, or coaching opportunities.

• Regular hackathons to encourage innovation.

• Remote-first work culture across Europe.

• Frequent off-site events for team bonding.

• Monthly support of $100 for open-source projects.

• Unlimited budget for AI resources.

• Transparency regarding company operations and performance.