Senior People Partner (Remote Europe)

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination. n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give 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, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact. Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve: • 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 our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register. We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us. 🎯 Your main goal will be to enable n8n to build a high-output, low-drag organization—clear roles, crisp performance standards, and capable managers. To do so, here are your responsibilities: Coach and Enable Managers • Act as the primary People Partner to 1–2 departments, supporting managers on performance, development, morale, and communication. • Coach managers through tough conversations, feedback, conflict, and team challenges — with a focus on fairness and accountability. • Build confidence through informal coaching, playbooks, and toolkits that make doing the right thing easier. • Support capability-building through targeted resources (e.g., micro-trainings, manager guides). Drive Consistent, Fair People Practices • Support the full employee lifecycle: hiring, onboarding, goal setting, development, retention, and exits. • Guide performance processes: setting clear expectations, driving regular feedback, and managing reviews and underperformance. • Lead on employee relations cases with a focus on consistency, documentation, and legal compliance. • Ensure policies are current, clearly understood, and consistently applied across teams and geographies. Strengthen Culture, Engagement & Change Readiness • Partner with managers to build strong, inclusive team cultures based on trust, feedback, and psychological safety. • Help managers interpret engagement feedback and follow through with actionable improvements. • Champion initiatives that promote employee well-being and values alignment. • Support org changes (e.g., team growth, re-orgs) with clear communication and team-level enablement. Translate Insights into Action • Spot and synthesize patterns across performance, engagement, attrition, and ER themes. • Provide practical, data-informed recommendations to managers and leadership. • Collaborate cross-functionally to improve people processes, reduce friction, and scale what works. REQUIREMENTS Must-haves • 🧭 People Partner experience (5+ years): You’ve owned a senior IC scope partnering with leaders and influencing org, performance, and talent decisions. • 📜 Professional certification: You hold SHRM-CP/SCP, CIPD, or an equivalent credential. • 🧑‍🏫 Manager coaching depth: You’re known for elevating managers on goals, continuous feedback, and development planning. • ⚖️ Complex ER leadership: You’ve led sensitive cases (terminations, layoffs, restructures, works councils) with rigor and fairness. • 🧩 Performance frameworks: You’ve implemented goals/reviews/feedback cycles and led calibrations that drive consistency. • 📚 Employment law knowledge: You understand UK, US, or German employment law and know when to escalate to Legal. • 🔧 Change enablement: You’ve supported re-orgs and process change, balancing speed with adoption. • 📑 Policy builder: You spot gaps and keep policies current, practical, and consistently applied. • 🗣️ Influence & credibility: You communicate crisply with managers/executives, earning trust and driving decisions. • 🏗️ Org & role architecture: You’ve been hands-on in org design, role leveling, and re-org work. • 📈 Engagement partner: You’ve run survey follow-through and culture-shaping initiatives that land real actions. • 💬 Compensation communication: You guide managers on offers, adjustments, and comp narratives with clarity. • 🧠 Sales business partnering background: You’ve partnered closely with Product/Finance teams and can navigate the pace and ambiguity of a hyper-growth scale-up. Nice-to-haves • 🌍 International & remote experience: You’ve supported distributed teams across EU/UK/US. • 🏛️ Works council familiarity: You understand regional nuances and WC engagement. • 🧮 People analytics savvy: You’re comfortable interpreting metrics and turning them into decisions. • ⚙️ High-growth SaaS background: You’ve partnered in product-led or hypergrowth tech environments. • 📘 Manager enablement design: You’ve built/delivered trainings, toolkits, or playbooks at scale. • 🧱 Succession exposure: You’ve supported successor identification and development planning. • 🧑‍💻 Tech business partnering background: You’ve partnered closely with Engineering/Product teams. Why join us? At n8n, your work won’t disappear into a slide deck. You’ll be the force multiplier behind how we scale from ~400 to ~1000+ people: raising manager capability, sharpening performance, and keeping our builder culture strong as we grow. You’ll partner directly with executives, shape org design and calibration at the company’s most pivotal stage, and build pragmatic, lightweight processes that help teams ship faster. You’ll join a supportive, remote-first team across EU/UK/US that values autonomy, candor, and experimentation. Sound like a challenge you’re excited to take on? Apply now — and help us build the future of automation. 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 (https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35). 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 the most likely to work from in the future. 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. • Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang. *Country and/or State specific details provided in your employment agreement. Compensation: €77.1K – €145.8K • Offers Equity • Multiple Ranges • Western Europe and Northern Europe • €96.4K – €126.8K • Offers Equity • Southern Europe • €86.8K – €114.1K • Offers Equity • Central Eastern Europe • €77.1K – €101.4K • Offers Equity • United Kingdom • £100K – £125K • Offers Equity • Ireland • €110.9K – €145.8K • Offers Equity Find Jobs in Germany on Arbeitnow