Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

The role

You will build and lead a regional Forward Deployed Engineering team. You will drive enterprise customer adoption by turning automation use cases into production-ready workflows, and stay hands-on with customer engagements.

What you will do

• Hire, onboard, and coach Forward Deployed Engineers across the region
• Set and maintain a high technical quality bar for production workflows and integrations
• Manage regional team capacity, workload, and staffing
• Lead regional engagement intake and prioritization with Customer Success, Sales, and Partnerships
• Qualify and scope customer engagements, with clear success criteria and timelines
• Drive measurable customer outcomes and report regional results to leadership
• Help customers build alongside FDEs so they can maintain their own automations
• Create reusable templates, reference architectures and workshop materials
• Ensure partner-led engagements meet technical and delivery standards
• Translate customer feedback and integration gaps into product priorities with Product and Engineering

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, professional services, or technical consulting within a software company
• 2+ years of experience leading and coaching technical teams
• Hands-on experience with workflow automation, integration platforms, or low-code tools
• Experience building production-ready workflows and integrations, with understanding of APIs, authentication, data handling, security, and enterprise architecture
• Comfortable working across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Partnerships
• Ability to balance technical excellence with business impact and empower customers to become self-sufficient
• Player-coach mentality, staying close to technology while building a team
• Based in the relevant region (EMEA or North America) and comfortable traveling to customer sites

Nice to have

• Familiarity with n8n or similar workflow automation and low-code platforms
• Experience working with systems integrators, technical consulting partners, or external delivery teams
• Experience helping establish or scale a regional technical delivery team from the ground up

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity in the company
• Europe: 30 days of vacation plus public holidays
• US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays
• Europe: health benefits according to local country norms
• US: multiple medical plans, HDHP option with HSA, dental and vision coverage
• Europe: pension contributions according to local country norms
• US: 401(k) with 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 work with regular off-sites

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is offered for Germany only; for any other country you need an existing right to work
• The company language is English

About the company

n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform for AI, founded in 2019 with a team of over 260 working across Europe and the US, centred in Berlin. It has more than 650,000 active developers and builders and is backed by top investors.