Head of People, n8n
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Open workflow automation tool
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Open workflow automation tool
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give everyone who uses a computer technical superpowers.
Role
Who you are
- 🎯 Experience Scaling Teams: You have experience navigating the complex growth phase from 50 to 150 employees
- 🤝 Leadership Acumen: You bring 10+ years of experience, including 3+ years in a senior people role, and you know how to manage, mentor, and motivate a team
- 🌐 Remote Work Expertise: You’re adept at crafting people programs for a fully remote or hybrid workforce, with a keen understanding of remote-first best practices
- 📊 Data-Driven Decision Maker: You’re analytical, data-driven, and metrics-focused, making decisions based on insights from HR metrics
- ⚖️ Compliance Knowledge: You understand European labor laws and are confident ensuring compliance across multiple countries
Desirable
- 🌱 Diverse Background: You’ve had experience in other functions (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Product) and bring a unique perspective to People leadership
- 📈 Engineering Culture Fit: Experience in engineering-focused organizations would be an asset
- Startup Resilience: You’re no stranger to the fast pace and occasional ambiguity of a startup environment, thriving in high-growth, dynamic teams
- 🧩 Cultural Architect: You’re skilled at crafting and maintaining company culture, especially in rapidly scaling teams
- Tech-Savvy: Experience with modern HRIS, automation tools, and talent analytics platforms is a big plus
What the job involves
- As the Head of People at n8n, you’ll spearhead our mission to create an exceptional people-first culture while scaling the organization for long-term success
- You’ll partner with leadership and the People team to architect a high-performance, values-driven environment that drives employee satisfaction and retention, fosters talent growth, and supports rapid scaling across Europe
- 🤝 Business Partnering: Coach and advise managers on hiring, role scoping, underperformance, dismissals, and organizational design decisions
- 🌟 Talent Development: Own career paths, titles, compensation models, and performance retros; drive learning and development initiatives to empower employees to grow
- 🏆 Performance Optimization: Implement frameworks to recognize star talent, set team goals, and drive high performance across departments
- 🔍 Recruiting Excellence: Lead a team of 3 in talent acquisition, ensuring robust, inclusive hiring processes; support workload prioritization and set hiring teams up for success
- 🌐 People Operations: Support our People Ops team of 1 with onboarding, offboarding, benefits, and office management; create seamless processes that enhance employee engagement
- 🎉 Creating a Positive People Experience: Take a PM-style approach to the employee journey, owning the handbook, surveys, and policies to create a smooth, delightful experience for all
- 📊 Analytics and Infrastructure: Maintain high HRIS data quality, own people metrics, and use insights to inform decisions and refine strategies; drive automation wherever possible
- ⚖️ Compliance Across Jurisdictions: Ensure compliance with labor laws across our 10+ hiring regions, and support data privacy and security programs
- 📣 Internal Communication: Amplify employee voices to leadership, and ensure company-wide updates are clear, accessible, and well-understood by all
- 💡 Revisiting Values and Culture: Regularly review and refresh our company values to keep them relevant and authentic; instill an “n8n-y” personality that resonates throughout the organization
- 📈 Developing Career Frameworks: Build tailored career progression frameworks for departments (e.g., Engineering, Sales) to set clear development paths and strengthen retention
- ⏲️ Tracking & Efficiency Systems: Implement time-tracking where required, and ensure compliance and process efficiency
Our take
A recent trend in IT has been an increased effort to streamline workflows by improving integration between the multiple apps which people use. n8n was founded so that users can find a balance between building systems and having autonomy in their work whilst saving time through the rapid development of complex workflows.
n8n is certainly not the first to pick up on this trend - competition includes startups like Zapier, RapidAPI, and Tray.io- but n8n believes that its product is a cut above the rest of the market, offering more flexibility and robustness at a reduced price. The company also has the leading low-code automation tool in this field.
n8n's long-term approach to the market is set to be based on two key strategies, focusing efforts on its flagship platform, ensuring that it stays ahead of competition in meet the demand for its integration services whilst also pushing towards diversification. It plans to launch a version of its platform under a SaaS subscription model. n8n also looks to introduce network of consulting, support and integration services, and if the company can execute this joint approach well, it will be well-set to continue pushing ahead in the market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2021
$12m
SERIES A
Mar 2020
$1.5m
SEED
Total funding: $13.5m
Company benefits
- 30 vacation days
- International, ambitious and mission-driven team with flat hierarchies and strong emphasis on building great company culture
- 1000€ personal development budget
- Regular company hackathons and team event
- Scrappy, fast-paced startup environment
Company values
- Empower others: We make people stronger and more confident, helping them to do things for themselves. We help people grow by coffering them high challenge and high support. We use empathy to understand how to make things easier for others. We show appreciation. We foster a sense of ownership and autonomy
- Act with integrity: We have the backbone to do the right thing even when it’s hard to do, or when no one is watching. We are honest, direct and transparent with others. We are honest with ourselves, and work on becoming more self-aware
- Work with speed and efficiency: We prioritize ruthlessly, and say no to things that aren’t important. We create a habit of working with urgency. We are 80:20, but we set high standards for the things that matter. We keep it simple. We look for ways to minimize drag, effort and waste. We automate what can be automated
- Inspire and think big: We inspire people with possibilities for the future. We are creative and bold, aiming to make things 10x better. We are unafraid of doing things differently. We create delight and excitement for our community, customers and team
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, BE
Articles
Leadership
Jan Oberhauser
(CEO)Before Jan created n8n, they worked in multiple roles for different VFX companies worldwide. Jan is also the founder of showreel.tv and link.fish.
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