Lead Forward Deployed Engineer - EMEA

n8n; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

n8n is seeking a regional Forward Deployed Engineering leader to accelerate enterprise adoption by turning high-impact automation use cases into production workflows. You will stay hands-on while guiding a team across your region to deliver measurable outcomes.

You’ll hire, onboard, and coach engineers, maintain high technical standards, and coordinate with Deployment Strategists to drive successful customer engagements.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing regional Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team.
• Own technical delivery quality, team development, and regional execution.
• Hire, onboard, and coach FDE engineers across your region.
• Collaborate with Deployment Strategists to deliver high-impact customer engagements.

Job description

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.

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