Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

• Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders

🎯 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.

• 🤝 Cross-functional Collaboration: You're comfortable working across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Partnerships to align priorities, manage expectations, and make thoughtful trade-offs.

• 🎯 Customer Outcome Mindset: You know how to balance technical excellence with business impact, identify high-value use cases, and empower customers to become self-sufficient rather than dependent on ongoing services.

• 🚀 Player-Coach Mentality: You enjoy staying close to the technology and customer challenges while building a high-performing team, creating repeatable processes, and scaling delivery in a fast-moving environment.

• 🌍 Regional Availability: You're based in the relevant region (EMEA or North America) and comfortable traveling to customer sites when needed.

Nice-to-haves

• 💻 n8n Expertise: You're familiar with n8n or similar workflow automation and low-code platforms, ideally with experience building complex production workflows.

• 🤝 Partner Ecosystems: You have experience working with systems integrators, technical consulting partners, or external delivery teams to deliver enterprise customer engagements.

• 🌱 0-to-1 Team Building: You've helped establish or scale a regional technical delivery team, including hiring, defining processes, and building a strong team culture from the ground up.

Why join us?

At n8n, you'll have the opportunity to build and shape a regional Forward Deployed Engineering team at a pivotal moment in our enterprise growth journey. You won't just lead engineers — you'll help define how we deliver technical excellence, accelerate customer adoption, and turn ambitious automation ideas into real business outcomes.

You'll combine hands-on technical work with people leadership, working closely with Customer Success, Sales, Partnerships, Product, and Engineering to influence how we scale customer delivery across your region. Your work will directly contribute to getting more workflows into production, helping customers become independent builders, and creating scalable technical practices that benefit our global FDE organization.

You'll join one of Europe's fastest-growing startups and a supportive, remote-first team that values autonomy, experimentation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Sound like a challenge you're excited to take on?

Apply now — and help us build the future of automation.

Our company language is English.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.

  • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.

• Health & wellness 🩺 –

  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*

• Future planning 💰 –

  • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*

• Financial security 🛡️ –

  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*