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n8n

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise

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

• Your main goal will be to build and own n8n’s procurement and spend-management function, ensuring every vendor relationship delivers strong value, every commitment is well governed, and our processes scale through AI and automation. • Achieve this by creating a disciplined, transparent, and automation-first approach to sourcing, vendor management, contracts, and company-wide spend: • BUILD STRATEGIC SOURCING & NEGOTIATION • Own the vendor-request intake and selection process from structured business need through evaluation and signed agreement. • Lead commercial negotiations for our largest and most strategic spend, including consumption-based cloud and AI commitments. • Create category strategies, leadership briefing materials, and negotiation playbooks that help teams secure strong outcomes across cloud, AI, SaaS, services, and contractors. • MANAGE THE VENDOR & SAAS LIFECYCLE • Own the vendor portfolio across onboarding, performance management, renewal, consolidation, and offboarding. • Reduce SaaS sprawl by tracking adoption, identifying overlapping or underused tools, and taking deliberate action on renewals. • Surface shadow IT and shadow AI while applying robust evaluation standards to AI vendors, APIs, data handling, access controls, and consumption-based spend. • OWN CONTRACT LIFECYCLE & THIRD-PARTY RISK • Manage the contract lifecycle from intake and drafting support through commercial negotiation, execution, central storage, and obligation tracking. • Independently negotiate commercial terms while routing legal redlining, security, privacy, and specialist reviews to the appropriate owners. • Maintain proactive renewal calendars, consistent vendor-risk processes, and traceable records that remain audit-ready across all entities. • CREATE SPEND GOVERNANCE & VISIBILITY • Govern outbound spend across vendors, travel, expenses, corporate cards, and contractors through clear policies and approval thresholds. • Partner with FP&A to manage vendor spend against OpEx budgets and feed accurate actuals into financial planning. • Build automated approvals, alerts, and always-on reporting, with particular visibility into consumption-based cloud and AI costs.

🎯 Requirements

• 🚀 Function-building experience: You’ve meaningfully built or rebuilt a procurement or spend-management function rather than only operating an established one. • 🛒 Procurement expertise: You have deep experience across sourcing, vendor management, category strategy, and contracts, ideally within a fast-scaling technology or SaaS company. • 🤝 Commercial negotiation: You independently review and negotiate commercial agreements and have secured strong terms on significant commitments, ideally including consumption-based cloud or AI spend. • 💸 Spend-ownership mindset: You treat company money with care and bring discipline to how spend is approved, committed, monitored, and reported. • 🧩 Operator mindset: You turn ambiguous, manual workflows into clear, scalable processes and take ownership from initial problem through measurable outcome. • 🤖 AI-native working style: You instinctively use AI and automation to remove repetitive work and are excited to build your own processes using n8n. • 🛠️ Hands-on automation (Nice-to-haves): You’ve built workflows with n8n and can use the platform to scale your impact without relying on additional headcount. • 📊 Audit and compliance exposure (Nice-to-haves): You’ve supported audit, SOX, or GoBD readiness and understand the controls and documentation required to remain audit-ready. • 🔐 Third-party risk familiarity (Nice-to-haves): You’ve managed vendor security assessments, DPAs, privacy reviews, or other onboarding risk checks. • 🧰 Procurement tooling fluency (Nice-to-haves): You’ve worked with procurement or SaaS-management platforms and can judge when a dedicated tool will add value—or unnecessary complexity. • 🌍 Scale-up experience (Nice-to-haves): You’ve succeeded in a remote-first, international environment where priorities move quickly and ownership is distributed.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay. • Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity. • Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge: • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are. • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are. • Health & wellness 🩺 – • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.* • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage. • Future planning 💰 – • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.* • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match. • Financial security 🛡️ – • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.* • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones. • Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills. • A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it! • Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description. • Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about. • AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity. • Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.