Senior People Partner

• Serve as primary People Partner to 1–2 departments
• Support managers on performance, development, morale, and communication
• Coach managers through difficult conversations, feedback, conflict, and team challenges
• Create coaching playbooks, toolkits, micro-trainings, and manager guides
• Support the full employee lifecycle, including hiring, onboarding, goal setting, development, retention, and exits
• Guide performance processes, regular feedback, reviews, and underperformance management
• Lead employee-relations cases with consistency, documentation, and legal compliance
• Keep policies current and consistently applied across teams and geographies
• Build inclusive team cultures based on trust, feedback, and psychological safety
• Help managers interpret engagement feedback and implement improvements
• Champion employee well-being and values-alignment initiatives
• Support organizational changes with clear communication and team enablement
• Synthesize patterns across performance, engagement, attrition, and employee-relations themes
• Provide data-informed recommendations to managers and leadership
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve people processes and scale effective practices
• Partner directly with executives on manager capability, performance, org design, and calibration
• Help scale n8n from approximately 400 to 1,000+ employees while preserving its builder culture

• 5+ years of People Partner experience in a senior individual-contributor scope
• Professional certification: SHRM-CP/SCP, CIPD, or equivalent credential
• Experience coaching managers on goals, continuous feedback, and development planning
• Experience leading sensitive employee-relations cases, including terminations, layoffs, restructures, and works councils
• Experience implementing goals, reviews, feedback cycles, and performance calibrations
• Knowledge of UK, US, or German employment law and ability to escalate to Legal
• Experience supporting reorganizations and process change
• Experience building and maintaining practical, consistently applied policies
• Ability to communicate crisply with managers and executives and influence decisions
• Hands-on experience in organization design, role leveling, and reorganization work
• Experience running engagement-survey follow-through and culture initiatives
• Experience guiding managers on offers, compensation adjustments, and compensation narratives
• Sales business-partnering background; experience partnering with Product/Finance teams in a hyper-growth scale-up
• Nice to have: experience with distributed EU/UK/US teams
• Nice to have: works council familiarity
• Nice to have: people analytics experience
• Nice to have: high-growth SaaS background
• Nice to have: manager enablement design experience
• Nice to have: succession planning exposure
• Nice to have: Engineering/Product business-partnering background
• Existing right to work required for countries other than Germany; Germany visa sponsorship available
• Company language is English

• Competitive compensation
• Equity ownership in n8n
• Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are
• Europe: Benefits according to local country norms
• Europe: Pension contributions according to local country norms
• €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching
• Regular hackathons
• Remote work across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding
• $100 per month to support open-source projects
• Transparency about company work and performance