n8n - Head of Design
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Requirements
• Must-haves • 🧭 Product design leadership: You have managed managers, coached senior designers, and built design teams that improve both craft and business outcomes, including making hard performance calls when needed. • Product design leadership: • 🧩 Complex product systems experience: You have led design across complex or developer-facing products where UX quality depends on deep product understanding. • 🎨 Craft authority: You are a quality bar, not just someone who appreciates quality. You can identify great work, explain why it's great, and hold the line on standards even when it's uncomfortable. • Craft authority: • 📣 Strategic influence, not just strategic thinking: You have made design a co-equal in product conversations, not a downstream function. You know how to bring people with you, create debate, and drive decisions. • Strategic influence, not just strategic thinking: • 🔀 Structured problem-solving under ambiguity: You find your way into unclear problems and create a plan. You don't just ask good questions, you answer them. You move forward when there's no map. • Structured problem-solving under ambiguity: • 🤖 AI-era product judgment: You understand the AI, automation, or adjacent tooling landscape and can turn emerging patterns into usable, trustworthy product experiences. • AI-era product judgment: • 🔍 Research literacy: You know how to build research into product development so insight becomes part of how teams make decisions, not a separate artifact. • Research literacy: • 📊 Data-informed decision making: You use product analytics, research, and customer evidence to guide decisions instead of relying on taste or opinion alone. • Data-informed decision making: • 🧱 Org design and performance management: You can design team structures, define career paths, raise expectations, and handle difficult performance conversations with clarity. • Org design and performance management: • Nice-to-haves • 🌱 Open-source or community product experience: You have worked on open-source, fair-code, community-led, or builder-driven products and understand what it means to design for a community that has strong opinions. • Open-source or community product experience: • 💻 Design engineering credibility: You have enough front-end or design engineering fluency to partner deeply on design system adoption and implementation quality. • Design engineering credibility: • 🌍 Remote-first operating systems: You have built design rituals, critique, QA, and collaboration practices that work across distributed teams and time zones. • Remote-first operating systems: • 🚀 Growth surface experience: You have worked on activation, onboarding, templates, time-to-value, or product-led growth surfaces. • ⬆️ Rising Design Manager profile: We are open to someone who has been an exceptional Design Manager and is ready for their first Head-level role, if the fundamentals are exceptional. • Rising Design Manager profile:
Responsibilities
• Own the quality bar • Set a clear, consistent quality bar that the team can orient around and build toward, so great work becomes the natural output of how we design together. • Build review processes and critique rituals that give the team a shared language for quality and the confidence to make strong craft decisions together. • Evolve the design system and QA practices so the bar rises as the team grows. • Dig into one of the most genuinely interesting UX challenges in the space: n8n has historically had a steep learning curve for new users. Your job is to lower that floor without losing the power that experienced builders love. • Drive design's strategic influence • Shape product strategy, not just respond to it. Bring design thinking into roadmap conversations and help surface user problems before they become someone else's brief. • Help lead n8n's expansion toward a broader, less technical audience, a deliberate and exciting strategic shift that design should be leading. • Build the kind of relationships with Product, Engineering, and leadership where design is a genuine thought partner at every stage. • Build and grow the team • Lead a team of around 14 designers today: 2 Design Leads each working with ~6 ICs, plus Design Engineering and UX Research (with more hires ahead). • Shape the team structure, career framework, and progression paths so people know where they stand and where they're going. • Create a culture of high standards and honest feedback, where people feel supported to do their best work and have a clear sense of what great looks like. • Own hiring and headcount planning for the department, and help us grow without losing what makes the team good. • Build research into how we make decisions • Establish a pragmatic, continuous research practice from the ground up. We're making our first dedicated UX research hires, so there's real room to shape this. • Make customer insight, product data, and community feedback a live input to product decisions, so teams are building from evidence at every step. • Connect research to the decisions that matter most: activation, adoption, retention, and helping new users find their way into n8n with confidence. • Help the team work in new ways • Champion practical AI adoption inside the design org, from prototyping and research synthesis to design QA and workflow efficiency. • Help the team stay curious and current as the tools, patterns, and expectations around AI products continue to evolve fast. • Model the kind of working style you want to see: thoughtful, adaptive, and genuinely excited about what's changing.
Benefits
• Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay. • Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity. • Ownership • Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge: • Work/life balance • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are. • Europe: • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are. • Health & wellness 🩺 – • Health & wellness • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.* • Europe: • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage. • Future planning 💰 – • Future planning • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.* • Europe: • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match. • Financial security 🛡️ – • Financial security • Europe: • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones. • Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills. • Career growth • A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it! • A passionate team • Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description. • Remote-first • Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about. • Giving back • AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity. • AI enablement 🤖 – • Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang. • Transparency • Country-specific details are provided in your contract.
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