Senior Product Manager - Core Platform (Engine, Scale & Reliability)

The role

You will own the foundations of the n8n Core Platform to make it more scalable, reliable, secure, and flexible. You will define the product strategy and roadmap while driving work on the execution engine and major platform releases.

What you will do

• Define and communicate the product strategy and roadmap for the Core Platform.
• Prioritize foundational investments based on customer impact, enterprise needs, technical risk, and engineering effort.
• Lead product discovery for technically complex problems.
• Drive work on the scalability and reliability of the execution engine.
• Improve the reliability of triggers and execution behaviour.
• Shape a more secure and flexible approach to executing code within n8n.
• Drive the planning and release of major or breaking platform versions.
• Establish clear success measures and keep the squad accountable for outcomes.
• Act as the bridge between the Core team and the wider organization.
• Treat internal product teams as customers of the platform.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in Product.
• At least 2 to 3 years on platform, infrastructure, developer-facing, or backend/API products.
• Ability to reason about distributed systems, execution models, and reliability/scalability trade-offs.
• Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives including a migration or breaking change.
• Ability to make trade-offs explicit and connect technical work to customer and commercial outcomes.
• Ability to drive outcomes without waiting for direction.
• Exceptional communication for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Understanding of running software in customer-controlled environments including self-hosted, air-gapped, and restricted deployments.
• English language proficiency.

Nice to have

• Hands-on ability to read code or prototype.
• Experience with B2B SaaS requirements like security, compliance, or deployment complexity.
• Comfort working with security teams on code execution, isolation, or compliance topics.
• Knowledge of workflow automation, orchestration, or open-source / developer-community products.
• A writing culture of defaulting to writing things down.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity
• Europe: 30 days of vacation plus public holidays
• US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays
• Europe: Benefits according to local country norms
• US: Medical plans, dental and vision coverage
• Europe: Pension contributions according to local country norms
• US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match
• US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance
• €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching
• Regular hackathons
• Remote-first

Before you apply

• We can sponsor visas to Germany
• For any other country, you need to have existing right to work
• Share a screenshot of your first workflow with us

About the company

n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform for the new era of AI. The team has over 260 members working across Europe and the US with a centre of gravity in Berlin.