Senior/Staff Product Designer

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Europe, Germany
Experience
Senior · 5+ years

Job description

Senior or Staff Product Designer role at n8n, embedded in a product squad to lead end-to-end product design on complex workflows across enterprise, adoption/retention, or n8n Labs teams.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
Work mode
Remote · Europe, Germany
Languages
English – fluent

What you'll do

  • Lead the full design process for your team, 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 effectively on complex features and understand the underlying technology
  • Take ownership of complex, multi-faceted problems and drive them to completion with initiative and autonomy
  • Own the direction of research for your team, decide when it's needed, choose the right methodology, and take the initiative without waiting to be told
  • 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 elevate teammates' work
  • 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 so 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 strong design perspective tied to KPIs
  • Explore and adopt AI and automation tools to push the boundaries of design practice and AI-powered workflows

What we're looking for

  • Proficient across product design, UX, UI, and qualitative research, delivering polished, detail-oriented work
  • Collaborate effectively with engineers and understand how software is built, including common web technologies; genuine curiosity about APIs, webhooks, data structures and how workflows actually execute
  • Shipped end-to-end features in smaller teams or startups and can drive complex problems to measurable outcomes
  • Operate at high speed in an MVP-driven environment, balancing quality and velocity amid ambiguity
  • Use research and metrics to inform decisions and consistently deliver solutions that enable team KPIs
  • Open and non-defensive in critique and provide actionable feedback that raises the team's bar
  • Enthusiastic about AI and innovation, actively exploring new tools and approaches to advance the craft
  • 5+ years in product design with demonstrable impact on shipped products

Nice to have

  • Can prototype using HTML/CSS/JavaScript, with or without AI coding tools, and can collaborate effectively with engineers on the result
  • Designed AI or automation products; familiarity with n8n is a plus
  • Proactively refine team rituals and workflows to increase effectiveness
  • Invest in your craft and are motivated by creating tangible product and company impact
  • Know methodologies like Continuous Discovery or Shape Up
  • Comfortable with metrics, A/B testing, or SQL to guide decisions
  • Built startups or side projects that show initiative and creative problem-solving

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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
  • Workflow orchestration / automation software
  • Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders
  • Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us 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 - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation
  • 500+ builder-approved integrations
  • Team works across Europe and the US, with centre of gravity in Berlin

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What they value

  • Empower others