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Lead Forward Deployed Engineer
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · EMEA
Experience
Senior · 6+ years
Job description
Lead a regional Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team for n8n in EMEA, turning high-impact enterprise automation use cases into production-ready workflows while owning technical delivery quality and team development.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Hire, onboard, and coach Forward Deployed Engineers across the region, partnering with Deployment Strategists on customer engagements
- Set and maintain a high technical quality bar for production workflows, custom nodes, integration architectures, and customer-facing delivery
- Manage regional team capacity, workload, and staffing while staying hands-on with customer engagements
- Lead regional engagement intake and prioritization with Customer Success, Sales, and Partnerships, focusing on high-value accounts, strategic adoption opportunities, and at-risk renewals
- Qualify and scope customer engagements, selecting the right mix of internal FDEs and delivery partners with clear success criteria, technical ownership, and timelines
- Drive measurable customer outcomes through production-ready workflows, increased adoption, and seamless handovers to Customer Success Managers, reporting regional results and expansion signals to leadership
- Champion a customer-first delivery approach where customers build alongside FDEs and become capable of maintaining and scaling their own automations
- Create and continuously improve reusable technical assets, including workflow templates, reference architectures, workshop materials, and hackathon playbooks
- Capture learnings from customer engagements and turn them into scalable best practices across the global FDE team
- Collaborate with regional partner managers and the Partner Delivery Manager to ensure partner-led engagements meet n8n's technical and delivery standards
- Support partner technical readiness, certification, and quality reviews
- Work closely with Product and Engineering to translate customer feedback, integration gaps, feature requests, and custom node needs into actionable priorities
What we're looking for
- 6+ years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, professional services, or technical consulting within a software company
- 2+ years of experience leading and coaching technical teams, with a track record of developing talent and raising the bar for customer-facing technical delivery
- Hands-on experience with workflow automation, integration platforms, or low-code tools, able to design and troubleshoot complex automation solutions
- Experience building production-ready workflows and integrations, with strong understanding of APIs, authentication, data handling, security, and enterprise architecture considerations
- Comfortable working across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Partnerships to align priorities, manage expectations, and make thoughtful trade-offs
- Ability to balance technical excellence with business impact, identify high-value use cases, and empower customers to become self-sufficient
- Player-coach mentality: staying close to the technology and customer challenges while building a high-performing team and scaling delivery
- Based in the relevant region (EMEA or North America) and comfortable traveling to customer sites when needed
Nice to have
- Familiarity with n8n or similar workflow automation and low-code platforms, ideally building complex production workflows
- Experience working with systems integrators, technical consulting partners, or external delivery teams on enterprise customer engagements
- Experience establishing or scaling a regional technical delivery team, including hiring, defining processes, and building team culture from the ground up
Your team
Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)
Regional FDE team that turns high-impact automation use cases into production-ready workflows for enterprise customers
Benefits
US: multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans, no-cost premium HDHP option with pre-seeded HSA, dental and vision coverage
- Competitive compensation
- Equity
- Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are
- US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are
- Europe: benefits according to local country norms (health & wellness, pension contributions, financial security)
- US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match
- US: company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance plus life insurance
- €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching
- Regular hackathons
- Remote-first team across Europe with regular off-sites
- $100 per month to support open source projects
- Transparency
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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. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, n8n is changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.
Key facts
- over 260
- 2019
- Berlin
- Workflow automation / software
- Community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders
- 190K+ GitHub stars, 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
- $5.2bn valuation
- Team works across Europe and the US with centre of gravity in Berlin
- Company language is English
- Can sponsor visas to Germany
Partners & customers
SequoiaSAP
What they value
- Empower others
- Autonomy
- Experimentation
- Collaboration
- Continuous learning