Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

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🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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n8n

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

n8n is a secure, AI-native workflow automation platform designed for technical teams. It provides limitless integrations and advanced AI features, allowing users to build autonomous, multi-step agents and workflows. With capabilities for IT, security, and sales operations, n8n can save significant time per workflow run and enrich various business processes using AI. It is available for self-hosting or on the cloud and is popular among developers for its open-source model and the ability to code in JavaScript or Python. n8n is enterprise-ready, offering advanced on-prem or cloud automation solutions, and maintaining mission-critical automations.

📋 Description

• Build and lead a high-performing regional Forward Deployed Engineering team • Hire, onboard, and coach Forward Deployed Engineers • Partner with Deployment Strategists on high-impact customer engagements • Set and maintain technical quality standards for production workflows, custom nodes, integration architectures, and customer-facing delivery • Manage regional capacity, workload, and staffing while remaining hands-on with customer engagements • Lead regional engagement intake and prioritization with Customer Success, Sales, and Partnerships • Qualify and scope customer engagements, selecting internal FDEs and delivery partners • Drive measurable customer outcomes through production-ready workflows, adoption, and handovers to Customer Success Managers • Report regional results and expansion signals to leadership • Enable customers to build, maintain, and scale their own automations • Create reusable workflow templates, reference architectures, workshop materials, and hackathon playbooks • Turn customer engagement learnings into scalable best practices • Collaborate with partner managers and the Partner Delivery Manager on partner-led engagements • Support partner technical readiness, certification, and quality reviews • Translate customer feedback, integration gaps, feature requests, and custom node needs into product and engineering priorities

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • Hands-on experience with workflow automation, integration platforms, or low-code tools • Experience designing and troubleshooting complex automation solutions • Experience building production-ready workflows and integrations • Strong understanding of APIs, authentication, data handling, security, and enterprise architecture • Comfortable collaborating across Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and Partnerships • Ability to balance technical excellence with business impact and empower customers to become self-sufficient • Player-coach mentality and ability to remain hands-on while leading a team • Based in EMEA or North America • Comfortable traveling to customer sites when needed • English is the company language • Nice to have: familiarity with n8n or similar workflow automation and low-code platforms • Nice to have: experience with systems integrators, technical consulting partners, or external delivery teams • Nice to have: experience establishing or scaling a regional technical delivery team

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity ownership in n8n • 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: health and wellness benefits according to local country norms • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans, a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA, dental and vision coverage • Europe: Pension contributions according to local country norms • 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 work across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding • $100 per month to support open-source projects • Transparent company culture

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