Senior Legal Counsel - Product
Job description
Privacy and product counsel acting as an embedded legal partner to Product and R&D leadership at n8n, focused on AI regulation readiness and digital regulatory compliance, with a smaller share of complex technology and commercial deal work. Reports to the General Counsel.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Partner with the existing Legal team to build out our current approach to AI regulation: EU AI Act readiness and risk classification, AI risk assessments, model and provider due diligence, AI use policies, and customer-facing AI transparency commitments.
- Partner with others in the Legal team on our response to the wider digital regulatory landscape for software (for example the EU Data Act, and other digital regulation), from horizon scanning through to product readiness and compliance roadmaps.
- Be the embedded Product and Engineering partner, joining roadmap, design and launch reviews, advising on platform and product terms from the design stage, and turning legal requirements into clear product requirements engineers can build against.
- Advise on open-source, fair-code and open-core licensing, and on IP questions around AI-generated outputs, machine learning models and training data.
- Partner with others in the Legal team on privacy questions that arise in product design.
- Support Product and Engineering with customer, community and regulator questions about how our products meet legal requirements.
- Review, draft and negotiate technology-heavy agreements (SaaS and self-hosted), partnership and integration, and AI model and cloud provider contracts.
- Partner with sales, partnerships and revenue teams on complex enterprise deals with AI or product requirements.
- Deliver creative, risk-based solutions that protect the business, and feed deal learnings back into product decisions.
- Solve legal questions in real time with a builder mindset.
- Improve and maintain scalable legal templates, playbooks and training materials together with the Legal team, so that standard deals and product questions do not need legal involvement.
- Collaborate with our Automation and Legal Operations to improve our self-serve legal processes and tooling.
What we're looking for
- Qualified legal professional with 5+ years' post-qualification experience (PQE), with at least 3 of those years within an in-house SaaS or technology environment with a start up or scale up company.
- Fluent English: can clearly communicate legal nuance in plain terms to global stakeholders.
- Substantial, hands-on experience of acting as a trusted business partner to and advising technology teams on regulatory matters such as the EU AI Act and related digital regulation, with a clear track record of getting up to speed on new regulation quickly.
- Working knowledge of open-source, fair-code or open-core licensing and how it applies to software products.
- Experience supporting engineers, product managers and sales teams, and able to demonstrate how you balance legal risk with product and revenue goals.
- Builder mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, enjoys solving problems with and without a playbook, and looks for ways to improve how legal works.
- Experience in a fast-scaling environment where priorities shift quickly and impact is immediate.
- Solid working experience with SaaS and self-hosted software license agreements.
Nice to have
- Curiosity for tech and automation: excited to experiment with legal tech, AI tools and scalable internal systems.
- AI or technology law credentials, for example AIGP, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to communicate in German with customers and stakeholders.
Your team
Legal
A growing, senior Legal team embedding AI-first thinking into everything n8n does.
Benefits
Work/life balance – Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are; US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
Health & wellness – Europe: benefits according to local country norms; 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 – Europe: pension contributions according to local country norms; US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
Financial security – Europe: benefits according to local country norms; US: company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance.
- Competitive compensation – fair and attractive pay.
- Ownership – equity in n8n.
- Career growth – €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching.
- A passionate team – regular hackathons.
- Remote-first – team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding.
- Giving back – $100 per month to support open source projects you care about.
- Transparency – visibility into what everyone's working on and how the company is doing.
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About n8n
The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.
n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI, giving technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations.
Key facts
- over 260
- 2019
- Berlin (centre of gravity); team across Europe and the US
- Workflow orchestration / automation software
- Community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders
- 190K+ GitHub stars, one of the world's Top 40 most popular projects
- Backed by top investors, from Sequoia's first German seed to SAP's recent strategic investment
- $5.2bn valuation
- 500+ builder-approved integrations
- Company language is English
- Can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, existing right to work required
Partners & customers
What they value
- Empower others
- Ownership
- Pragmatism
- Speed
- Builder spirit