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Senior/Staff Product Designer

Posted 5 months ago.

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n8n

Low-code workflow automation platform for connecting apps, APIs, and AI agents.

About the Role

  • Seasoned Product Designer to lead end-to-end product design on complex workflows, ship measurable outcomes, and raise the quality bar across the platform.
  • Role involves tackling complex problems that account for diverse user workflows, technical constraints, and how changes impact the entire platform.
  • Team assignments may shift, with specific focus areas including:
    • Enterprise: Technical B2B platforms, designing for scale, governance, and collaboration (permissions, environments, observability, and failure modes).
    • AI: Designing AI tools, agents, or builders to define the future of AI-powered workflows.
    • Growth: Rapid iteration, experimentation, and optimizing onboarding and activation flows to move metrics.
    • Marketplace: Multi-sided platforms where balancing the needs of supply and demand sides.
  • Remote-first (Europe) with regular off-sites for team bonding.
  • Visa sponsorship is available for Germany; other countries require an existing right to work.
  • Company language is English.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Lead the full design process from discovery to polished delivery, collaborating closely with PMs and engineers.
  • Consistently ship high-quality, visually cohesive designs that improve the overall UX at every release.
  • Work on complex features with a strong engineering mindset and understanding of the underlying technology.
  • Take ownership of complex, multi-faceted problems and drive them to completion with initiative and autonomy.
  • Champion the user by running interviews, usability tests, and research to inform critical product and business decisions
  • Master the feedback loop by gathering, synthesizing, and acting on input while giving actionable critique to teammates.
  • Balance speed and quality in an MVP-driven environment, navigating ambiguity while maintaining a high bar.
  • Design in systems, integrating solutions into the broader n8n platform and safeguarding the product’s big picture.
  • Account for edge cases, constraints, and interaction details to ensure users never end up in impossible states.
  • Collaborate across teams and designers to ensure consistency and quality across shared patterns and components.
  • Shape team strategy by influencing planning, prioritization, and scope with a design perspective tied to KPIs.
  • Explore and adopt AI and automation tools to push the boundaries of design practice and AI-powered workflows.

What You'll Bring

5+ years in product design with demonstrable impact on shipped products.
Proficiency across product design, UX, UI, and qualitative research.
Technical mindset with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and understand how software is, including common web technologies.
Experience shipping end-to-end features in smaller teams or startups.
Ability to operate at high speed in an MVP-driven environment, balancing quality and velocity amid ambiguity.
Outcome orientation using research and metrics to inform decisions and deliver solutions that enable team KPIs.
Open and non-defensive approach to critique and ability to provide actionable feedback.
Enthusiasm for AI and innovation, actively exploring new tools and approaches.

Nice to Have

Front-end fluency to prototype or collaborate using HTML/CSS/JavaScript frameworks.
Experience in the AI or automation domain; familiarity with n8n is a plus.
Proactive refinement of team rituals and workflows to increase effectiveness.
Motivation for continuous growth and creating tangible product and company impact.
Knowledge of methodologies like Continuous Discovery or Shape Up.
Comfort with metrics, A/B testing, or SQL to guide decisions.
Entrepreneurial drive, such as building startups or side projects.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive compensation.
  • Equity.
  • 30 days of vacation plus public holidays (Europe).
  • 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays (US).
  • Health & wellness: Local country norms (Europe) or multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans, including a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA, plus dental and vision coverage (US).
  • Pension contributions according to local country norms (Europe) or a 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match (US).
  • Financial security: Local country norms (Europe) or company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance (US).
  • €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching.
  • Regular hackathons.
  • Remote-first (Europe).
  • $100 per month to support open source projects you care about.
  • Unlimited AI budget to explore and use tools to boost productivity and creativity.
  • Transparent culture with an eNPS of 94 for 204.

About n8n

  • Open workflow orchestration platform for the AI era.
  • Provides technical teams with the freedom of code and the speed of no-code.
  • Founded in 2019 with a team of over 220 people working across Europe and the US.
  • Centre of gravity in Berlin.
  • Community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders.
  • 145k+ GitHub stars.
  • Ranked 4th in Sifted’s 2025 B2B SaaS Rising 100.
  • Raised $240m to date, including a $180m Series C, a $2.5bn valuation.

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