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

About the role

n8n is an open workflow orchestration platform for automating workflows, with its centre of gravity in Berlin and a remote-first team across Europe and the US. This Senior Product Manager role owns the Core Platform, which is the foundation on which the company's AI and agent capabilities are built. The goal is to make the platform more scalable, reliable, secure and flexible as customer usage and technical complexity grow.

Key responsibilities

• Own the Core Platform strategy and roadmap, define it with Engineering and Product leadership, and prioritize foundational investments based on customer impact, enterprise needs, technical risk and engineering effort.
• Lead product discovery for technically complex problems, working directly with enterprise customers and internal customer-facing teams.
• Drive work on the scalability and reliability of the execution engine, including worker pools and distributed execution, and improve reliability of triggers and execution across multi-main Cloud and self-hosted enterprise setups.
• Shape a more secure and flexible approach to executing code within n8n.
• Drive planning and release of major or breaking platform versions, including migration strategy, stakeholder communication and risk management.
• Bridge the Core team with Product, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success and Support, and turn cross-cutting needs from internal product teams into explicit Core Platform work.

Required profile

• 5+ years in Product, with at least 2 to 3 years on platform, infrastructure, developer-facing or backend/API products.
• Credible with senior engineers, able to reason about distributed systems, execution models and reliability/scalability trade-offs.
• Track record leading cross-team technical initiatives with real delivery risk, such as migrations or breaking changes.
• Comfortable making trade-offs explicit and connecting technical-debt work to customer and commercial outcomes.
• Understands enterprise platforms, including self-hosted, air-gapped and restricted deployments.

Nice to have

• Ability to read code or prototype.
• Experience with B2B SaaS requirements such as security, compliance or deployment complexity.
• Familiarity with workflow automation, orchestration or open-source developer products.
• Writing culture, and comfort working with security teams on code execution, isolation or compliance.

What we offer

• Equity in the company.
• 30 vacation days in Europe, 20 in the US, plus public holidays.
• Health benefits and pension contributions in Europe; 401(k) with employer match, medical, dental and vision plans in the US.
• €1K (or equivalent) per year for learning, and $100 per month to support open-source projects.
• Remote-first work, with regular off-sites; some roles are hybrid.