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About the role
You’ll work as part of a small, high-caliber team operating with high autonomy, fast iteration cycles, and strong founder energy.
In this role, you will
- Continuously explore emerging shifts in AI interfaces, orchestration, agents, autonomy, and AI-powered work through hands-on experimentation and ecosystem research
- Stay deeply connected to the AI ecosystem through founder networks, user conversations, Product Hunt, Reddit, GitHub, X, events, and emerging tooling
- Identify unmet needs and future product opportunities that could shape n8n’s long-term direction
- Rapidly prototype, validate, and launch AI-native product ideas with minimal support
- Operate across product, engineering, design, and go-to-market with a highly scrappy, execution-first mindset
- Pull in tooling, contractors, collaborators, or external support when needed to move quickly and unblock progress
- Use structured thinking, experimentation, user feedback, and market signals to evaluate what n8n should invest in over the next 1–3 years
- Work closely with n8n’s founder and Product leadership to workshop ideas, pressure-test assumptions, and shape strategic product bets
- Share insights and discoveries with the wider organization to help n8n stay ahead of the AI landscape
REQUIREMENTS
Must-haves
- 🚀 0→1 product building experience: You’ve built and launched products from scratch, ideally in the AI space, and know how to move from idea to real-world validation quickly.
- 🤖 AI-native thinking: You have strong intuition for how AI is changing software, workflows, interfaces, and user behavior, and can translate emerging shifts into concrete product opportunities.
- 🛠️ Hands-on execution: You’re comfortable building, prototyping, experimenting, and operating with minimal structure or support.
- 🧠 Product intuition & problem-solving: You combine strong product instincts with structured thinking and can quickly validate whether an idea is worth pursuing.
- 🔮 Product vision: You’re known for spotting non-obvious opportunities and thinking ahead of where the market is going.
- ⚡ Speed & resourcefulness: You thrive in ambiguity, move fast, and know how to creatively unblock yourself to make progress.
- 🤝 Collaboration & communication: You can workshop ideas with senior leaders, challenge assumptions thoughtfully, and bring others along through clear reasoning.
Nice-to-haves
- 📡 Deep AI ecosystem immersion: You actively follow emerging products, models, startups, communities, and technical trends across the AI landscape.
- 🎙️ Ecosystem curiosity: You naturally stay plugged into what’s happening across podcasts, X, Reddit, Product Hunt, events, and founder/operator communities.
- 🧪 Founder experience: You’ve previously founded or been an early employee at a startup and understand what it takes to build under uncertainty.
- 🧰 Technical breadth: You’re comfortable using AI coding tools, low-code/no-code tooling, or building lightweight prototypes independently.
