Senior People Partner
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Senior People Partner helping n8n, an AI workflow automation company, scale manager capability, performance, and culture across Europe.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as primary People Partner to 1–2 departments
- Support managers on performance, development, morale, and communication
- Coach managers through difficult conversations, feedback, conflict, and team challenges
- Create coaching playbooks, toolkits, micro-trainings, and manager guides
- Support the full employee lifecycle, including hiring, onboarding, goal setting, development, retention, and exits
- Guide performance processes, regular feedback, reviews, and underperformance management
- Lead employee-relations cases with consistency, documentation, and legal compliance
- Keep policies current and consistently applied across teams and geographies
- Build inclusive team cultures based on trust, feedback, and psychological safety
- Help managers interpret engagement feedback and implement improvements
- Champion employee well-being and values-alignment initiatives
- Support organizational changes with clear communication and team enablement
- Synthesize patterns across performance, engagement, attrition, and employee-relations themes
- Provide data-informed recommendations to managers and leadership
- Collaborate cross-functionally to improve people processes and scale effective practices
- Partner directly with executives on manager capability, performance, org design, and calibration
- Help scale n8n from approximately 400 to 1,000+ employees while preserving its builder culture
Requirements:
- 5+ years of People Partner experience in a senior individual-contributor scope
- Professional certification: SHRM-CP/SCP, CIPD, or equivalent credential
- Experience coaching managers on goals, continuous feedback, and development planning
- Experience leading sensitive employee-relations cases, including terminations, layoffs, restructures, and works councils
- Experience implementing goals, reviews, feedback cycles, and performance calibrations
- Knowledge of UK, US, or German employment law and ability to escalate to Legal
- Experience supporting reorganizations and process change
- Experience building and maintaining practical, consistently applied policies
- Ability to communicate crisply with managers and executives and influence decisions
- Hands-on experience in organization design, role leveling, and reorganization work
- Experience running engagement-survey follow-through and culture initiatives
- Experience guiding managers on offers, compensation adjustments, and compensation narratives
- Sales business-partnering background; experience partnering with Product/Finance teams in a hyper-growth scale-up
- Nice to have: experience with distributed EU/UK/US teams
- Nice to have: works council familiarity
- Nice to have: people analytics experience
- Nice to have: high-growth SaaS background
- Nice to have: manager enablement design experience
- Nice to have: succession planning exposure
- Nice to have: Engineering/Product business-partnering background
- Existing right to work required for countries other than Germany; Germany visa sponsorship available
- Company language is English
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation
- Equity ownership in n8n
- Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are
- Europe: Benefits according to local country norms
- Europe: Pension contributions according to local country norms
- €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching
- Regular hackathons
- Remote work across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding
- $100 per month to support open-source projects
- Transparency about company work and performance
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