Senior Legal Counsel, Product
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Senior Legal Counsel advising n8n’s Product and R&D teams on AI regulation, privacy, licensing, and technology contracts. Supporting an open workflow automation company’s scalable legal operations.
Responsibilities:
- Act as trusted privacy and product counsel to Product and R&D leadership and teams
- Support Product and R&D teams on AI regulation readiness and wider digital regulatory requirements
- Develop EU AI Act readiness, risk classification, AI risk assessments, model/provider due diligence, AI use policies, and customer-facing AI transparency commitments
- Monitor wider digital regulation, including the EU Data Act, and develop product readiness and compliance roadmaps
- Join roadmap, design, and launch reviews as an embedded Product and Engineering partner
- Advise on platform and product terms from the design stage and translate legal requirements into product requirements
- Advise on open-source, fair-code, and open-core licensing
- Advise on IP issues involving AI-generated outputs, machine-learning models, and training data
- Partner on privacy questions arising in product design
- Support customer, community, and regulator questions about product legal compliance
- Review, draft, and negotiate SaaS, self-hosted software, partnership, integration, AI model, and cloud-provider agreements
- Partner with sales, partnerships, and revenue teams on complex enterprise deals
- Deliver risk-based solutions and feed deal learnings into product decisions
- Develop and maintain legal templates, playbooks, and training materials
- Collaborate with Automation and Legal Operations to improve self-serve legal processes and tooling
- Report to the General Counsel
Requirements:
- Qualified legal professional based in Europe
- 5+ years' post-qualification experience (PQE)
- At least 3 years within an in-house SaaS or technology environment with a start-up or scale-up company
- Fluent English
- Substantial hands-on experience advising technology teams on the EU AI Act and related digital regulation
- Track record of getting up to speed on new regulation quickly
- Working knowledge of open-source, fair-code, or open-core licensing
- Experience supporting engineers, product managers, and sales teams
- Ability to balance legal risk with product and revenue goals
- Comfortable with ambiguity and solving problems with and without a playbook
- Experience in a fast-scaling environment
- Solid working experience with SaaS and self-hosted software license agreements
- Curiosity for legal technology, AI tools, and scalable internal systems
- AI or technology law credentials such as AIGP, or equivalent practical experience (nice-to-have)
- German communication skills with customers and stakeholders (nice-to-have)
- For countries other than Germany, existing right to work is required; Germany visa sponsorship available
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation
- Equity ownership in n8n
- Europe: 30 days of vacation plus public holidays wherever you are
- US: 20 vacation days and 8 sick days plus public holidays wherever you are
- Europe: benefits according to local country norms
- US: low-premium, low-deductible medical plans, no-cost premium HDHP option with pre-seeded HSA, dental and vision coverage
- Europe: pension contributions according to local country norms
- US: 401(k) retirement plan with 4% employer match
- US: company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance and life insurance
- €1K (or equivalent) annual career development budget for courses, books, events, or coaching
- Regular hackathons
- Remote-first work across Europe with regular off-sites
- $100 per month to support open-source projects
- Transparency
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