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

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 elevate to Legal.
• Change enablement:

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