Senior Legal Counsel, EMEA

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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 220 - 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 145k+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects

Been ranked as one of Europe’s most promising privately held SaaS startups (4th in Sifted’s 2025 B2B SaaS Rising 100)

Raised $240m to date, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our recent $180m Series C - bringing us to a $2.5bn valuation

That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see wha you app.n8n.cloud/register

We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.

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From Bono and Oscar Wilde to today's tech leaders, Dublin has always attracted trailblazers, with more than 70,000 people working in the city's expanding digital sector. Continuing its legacy of drawing pioneers, the city is advancing rapidly. Ireland is now ranked as one of the top tech clusters in the region and the number one destination for digital companies, with the highest hiring intention of any region across all

To do so, here are your responsibilities:

• Social Impact • SoftwareAs a Senior Quality Platform Engineer, you will develop and maintain quality infrastructure, improve developer experience, and implement quality engineering practices to ensure scalable, efficient testing workflows.

Your main goal will be to support the build-out of n8n’s legal function as a foundational hire — enabling our sales team to close complex deals at scale while shaping a modern, AI-first legal strategy.

Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of agreements including SaaS (cloud and on-prem), DPA, channel, partnership, and vendor contracts

Partner closely with the sales and revenue teams to drive deals to close

Deliver creative, risk-based solutions that unlock revenue and protect the business

Provide pragmatic legal advice on GDPR, international data transfers, CCPA, and other global privacy frameworks

Advise cross-functional teams on the legal implications of AI in product development and go-to-market strategy

Help set a scalable, forward-looking approach to AI and privacy governance

Work with stakeholders across the company to solve legal questions in real-time with a builder mindset

Improve and maintain scalable legal templates, playbooks, and training materials

Help design and implement a self-serve legal portal and processes to support a fast-scaling global team

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Top Skills: AWSAzureCircleCICypressDockerGCPGithub ActionsGitlabJavaJavaScriptJestJunitKubernetesPlaywrightPythonRubyTypescript Big Data • Food • Hardware • Machine Learning • Retail • Automation • ManufacturingLead Norway commercial/category finance as a business partner to country leadership. Own month-end close, planning/forecasting, P&L, reporting, controls, financial modelling, audits, and drive improvements while developing a local finance team. Artificial Intelligence • Consumer Web • Digital Media • Information Technology • Social Impact • SoftwareThe AI Platform Engineer will build infrastructure to evaluate and improve AI systems, focusing on observability, diagnostics, and enhancement of performance. Top Skills: PythonRuby On Rails

Qualified lawyer (Europe-based): You're a qualified legal professional with 5+ years PQE, ideally with both top-tier law firm and in-house SaaS experience

Strong English fluency: You can clearly communicate legal nuance in plain terms to global stakeholders

Commercial contracts expert: You have deep experience in SaaS agreements, open-source licensing, and commercial deal-making

AI- and privacy-savvy: You’re confident navigating GDPR, CCPA, and emerging AI regulations in a practical, business-centric way

Builder mindset: You thrive in ambiguity, enjoy solving problems without a playbook, and constantly look for ways to improve how legal works

Cross-functional collaborator: You're empathetic, business-minded, and able to balance legal risk with product and revenue goals

Curiosity for tech and automation: You're excited to experiment with legal tech, AI tools, and scalable internal systems

Experience with open-source models: Familiarity with fair-code or open-core licensing approaches

Startup pace experience: You’ve worked in fast-scaling environments where priorities shift quickly and your impact

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At n8n, your work won’t disappear into a shared drive — it will shape the legal backbone of a category-defining company. You’ll be the first legal hire alongside our new Head of Legal, with the chance to help build the function from the ground up, rethink how legal supports business, and embed AI-first thinking into everything we do. You’ll join a fast-growing, remote-first team that values ownership, pragmatism, and

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n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.

Our company language is English.

You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out ourDiversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n( https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35 ).

If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future. Location disclaimer:

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