Director of Engineering | Europe | Remote

REQUIREMENTS

Must-haves

• 🌱 Engineering leadership at scale: You have several years of experience leading multiple engineering teams and directly managing Engineering Managers in a high-growth product organization.
• 🧭 Technical strategy and roadmap ownership: You know how to set direction across a broad product area and turn technical strategy into clear priorities and outcomes.
• 🏗️ Strong technical credibility: You have a strong engineering background and can contribute meaningfully to architecture discussions and technical decision-making.
• 🤝 Coaching and people leadership: You’re known for developing leaders, giving clear feedback, and helping teams grow in ownership, performance, and judgement.
• 🚀 Product engineering experience: You’ve led product engineering teams that shipped meaningful user-facing experiences in a fast-moving SaaS environment.
• 🤖 AI product exposure: You’ve worked on AI-native products or led teams building AI-powered product experiences, and can help navigate the opportunities and pitfalls of this space.
• 🌐 Distributed leadership experience: You’re comfortable leading teams across countries in a remote-first environment.
• ⚖️ Execution and quality mindset: You’ve built systems and ways of working that improve delivery, maintain quality, and keep teams focused on meaningful outcomes.
• 🏢 Experience in growth-stage companies : You’ve worked in a scaling company and have seen the organizational growing pains that come with building teams and processes at pace.

Nice-to-haves

• 🧩 Developer tools or workflow automation experience: You’re excited by technical products and have worked on developer platforms, automation tools, or adjacent categories.
• 🌍 Open-source or developer tooling interest: You’re excited by technical products, builder communities, and the challenges that come with extensible software and automation.
• 🛠️ TypeScript / Node.js familiarity: You have experience with JavaScript or TypeScript and could quickly build context in our stack.
• 💡 Strong product sense: You know how to partner deeply with Product and Design and can help teams make smart trade-offs in user-facing areas.

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.