Head of People

Summary

Join n8n as the Head of People to spearhead our mission to create an exceptional people-first culture while scaling the organization for long-term success.

Requirements

• Experience Scaling Teams: You have experience navigating the complex growth phase from 50 to 150 employees
• Leadership Acumen: You bring 10+ years of experience, including 3+ years in a senior people role, and you know how to manage, mentor, and motivate a team
• Remote Work Expertise: You’re adept at crafting people programs for a fully remote or hybrid workforce, with a keen understanding of remote-first best practices
• Data-Driven Decision Maker: You’re analytical, data-driven, and metrics-focused, making decisions based on insights from HR metrics
• Compliance Knowledge: You understand European labor laws and are confident ensuring compliance across multiple countries

Responsibilities

• Empowering Managers and Teams: Coach and advise managers on hiring, role scoping, underperformance, dismissals, and organizational design decisions
• Talent Development: Own career paths, titles, compensation models, and performance retros; drive learning and development initiatives to empower employees to grow
• Performance Optimization: Implement frameworks to recognize star talent, set team goals, and drive high performance across departments
• Leading Recruitment and People Operations: Lead a team of 3 in talent acquisition, ensuring robust, inclusive hiring processes; support workload prioritization and set hiring teams up for success
• People Operations: Support our People Ops team of 1 with onboarding, offboarding, benefits, and office management; create seamless processes that enhance employee engagement
• Creating a Positive People Experience: Take a PM-style approach to the employee journey, owning the handbook, surveys, and policies to create a smooth, delightful experience for all
• Ensuring Compliance and Data-Driven Decision Making: Maintain high HRIS data quality, own people metrics, and use insights to inform decisions and refine strategies; drive automation wherever possible
• Compliance Across Jurisdictions: Ensure compliance with labor laws across our 10+ hiring regions, and support data privacy and security programs
• Internal Communication: Amplify employee voices to leadership, and ensure company-wide updates are clear, accessible, and well-understood by all
• Building Our Culture and Future: Regularly review and refresh our company values to keep them relevant and authentic; instill an “n8n-y” personality that resonates throughout the organization
• Developing Career Frameworks: Build tailored career progression frameworks for departments (e.g., Engineering, Sales) to set clear development paths and strengthen retention
• Tracking & Efficiency Systems: Implement time-tracking where required, and ensure compliance and process efficiency

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Ownership: Our core value is to “empower others”, and we give you a slice of n8n in the form of equity
• Work/life balance: We work hard, but make sure everyone can properly recharge their batteries with 30 days holiday, plus public holidays wherever you are
• Career growth: We are looking to hire 'rising stars', who can grow with the company into more senior roles. We give you €1k a year to spend on courses, books, events and coaching, to support you in developing your career
• A passionate team: We love our product, and we have regular office hackathons to see who can build the coolest thing with it!
• Remote-first: Our team works remote from anywhere within Europe but we have regular off-sites to help build team bonds and alignment
• Transparency: We all know what everyone’s working on, how’s the company doing — the whole shebang
• Giving back: We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about