AI Engineering Manager

Your main goal will be to build and lead an engineering team that thrives in a fast-moving agentic, AI-native world—developing engineers, creating clarity, and delivering meaningful outcomes with strong technical judgment. This is a first-line engineering leadership role for someone who is deeply technical, but whose real strength is building teams: empowering engineers on their growth path, aligning stakeholders, and helping people move with confidence as AI agents, workflow automation, and user expectations evolve rapidly.

You will lead teams working on AI agents and agentic workflows within n8n, enabling users to orchestrate complex, multi-step automation across tools, data, and models. This includes shaping how LLMs, tools, APIs, and workflows come together into reliable, composable systems that users can trust in production.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers building agent-based systems, workflow orchestration capabilities, and AI-powered nodes.
Foster a culture of experimentation and rapid iteration, where engineers continuously improve prompts, tool usage, and workflow logic based on real-world outcomes.
Help your team think in terms of systems, not features—designing reliable agentic workflows rather than one-off AI calls.
Support hiring and team shaping with a focus on AI engineering, distributed systems thinking, and product-minded builders.
Help your team navigate a space where agents, tools, memory, and orchestration patterns are still emerging and rapidly changing.
Translate evolving AI capabilities into clear product and engineering direction for n8n workflows, nodes, and automation primitives.
Guide decisions around agent architecture (e.g., single-agent vs multi-agent workflows, tool selection, memory strategies, human-in-the-loop design).
Cut through hype and ambiguity to focus on what delivers real, reliable value to users building automations.
Partner with Product and Design to define and ship agent-powered workflow experiences that feel intuitive, composable, and powerful.
Ensure the team delivers end-to-end agent systems, including orchestration logic, tool integrations, memory handling, and execution environments.
Establish best practices for workflow reliability, including retries, fallbacks, guardrails, and observability of agent behaviour.
Balance speed and iteration with the need for determinism, debuggability, and user trust in automated systems.
Drive improvements in how users build, test, and debug AI-powered workflows inside n8n.
Bring strong technical depth in LLM integrations, tool use, and workflow orchestration, enabling you to mentor and challenge your team.
Support architectural decisions around agent frameworks, execution engines, state management, and integration layers.
Help the team design systems that handle long-running workflows, external APIs, and dynamic decision-making by agents.
Step into technical details when needed (prompt design, tool schemas, workflow execution issues) to unblock the team.
Promote best practices around safety, guardrails, and predictable behaviour in agent-driven systems.

Qualifications

First-line engineering management experience: led teams delivering meaningful product outcomes, ideally including automation platforms, workflow systems, or AI‑powered features.
Significant experience working with evaluations and driving results via evals.
Strong people leadership: coaches engineers effectively and builds teams that thrive in ambiguous, fast‑evolving technical spaces.
Comfort with ambiguity and speed: brings clarity in a world where agent patterns, tooling, and best practices are still emerging.
Strong software engineering background: confidently engages in discussions around distributed systems, APIs, and system design.
Hands‑on when needed: dives into workflow logic, integrations, or AI system behaviour to support the team.
Cross‑functional alignment: experience working closely with Product and Design to deliver end‑user‑facing builder experiences.
High‑growth SaaS experience: understands how to scale teams and systems in a fast‑moving environment.
AI/agent exposure: experience working with LLMs, agents, or automation systems, with an understanding of their strengths, limitations, and failure modes.

Nice‑to‑haves

n8n or workflow tooling familiarity.
Integration‑heavy systems background.
Deep agent experience: hands‑on work with agent frameworks, tool use, memory systems, or multi‑step reasoning workflows.
Observability & debugging: experience building tools for inspecting, debugging, and improving complex workflows or AI systems.
Responsible AI awareness: guardrails, failure handling, and safe automation practices in user‑facing AI systems.

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.
Work/life balance – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:
- 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: We provide 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: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.
- US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
Financial security –
- Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.
- 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.
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!
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.
Giving back – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
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.
Transparency – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.
An ambitious but kind culture – People love working here—our eNPS for 2024 is 94!

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.

Our company language is English.

You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n.

Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we’re hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you’re most likely to work from in the future.

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