Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

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 http://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 build and lead a high-performing regional Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team that accelerates enterprise customer adoption by turning high-impact automation use cases into production-ready workflows. You'll own technical delivery quality, team development, and regional execution, while staying hands-on and empowering customers to become independent, successful builders.

To achieve this, you'll focus on four key areas:

BUILD & LEAD A HIGH-PERFORMING FDE TEAM

• Hire, onboard, and coach Forward Deployed Engineers across your region, partnering closely with Deployment Strategists to deliver high-impact 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 and supporting your team's technical development.

OWN REGIONAL DELIVERY & CUSTOMER OUTCOMES

• Lead regional engagement intake and prioritization with Customer Success, Sales, and Partnerships, focusing resources 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 while ensuring clear success criteria, technical ownership, and timelines.
• Drive measurable customer outcomes through production-ready workflows, increased adoption, and seamless handovers to Customer Success Managers, while reporting regional results and expansion signals to leadership.

ENABLE CUSTOMERS & SCALE TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE

• Champion a customer-first delivery approach where customers build alongside FDEs, develop technical confidence, 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 that improve delivery quality and consistency across the global FDE team.

DRIVE PARTNER QUALITY & CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION

• 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 to build a reliable regional ecosystem of delivery resources.
• Work closely with Product and Engineering to translate customer feedback, integration gaps, feature requests, and custom node needs into actionable priorities, balancing reusable product improvements with customer-specific solutions.

REQUIREMENTS

MUST-HAVES

• Technical Customer-Facing Experience: You have 6+ years of experience in forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, professional services, or technical consulting within a software company.
• Technical Leadership: You have 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.
• Automation & Integration Expertise: You have hands-on experience with workflow automation, integration platforms, or low-code tools and can confidently design and troubleshoot complex automation solutions.
• Enterprise Technical Delivery: You're experienced in building production-ready workflows and integrations, with a strong understanding of APIs, authentication, data handling, security, and enterprise architecture considerations.
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