Head of People Operations & Tech

You'll own and rebuild the operating system behind n8n's People function: hygiene, analytics, systems, and automation. You'll have a real mandate to design it your way, and since n8n builds workflow automation for a living, you'll get to use your own product to do it.

What you'll do

• Own employment contracts, payroll coordination, visas, and employee policies end to end.
• Keep n8n's SOC 2-related compliance processes accurate and audit-ready.
• Bring clear, centralized ownership to freelancer and contractor engagement approvals.
• Stand up n8n's own people analytics capability and turn People data into decisions leadership can act on.
• Own and evolve People systems like HiBob and Mahana, keeping data clean and workflows scalable.
• Automate repetitive People Ops work, partnering with workflow automation engineers on complex builds using n8n's product.
• Act as the onboarding liaison, making sure new hires feel welcomed and set up to succeed from day one.
• Build out a small, high-trust team, hiring 2–3 specialists in analytics, automation, and systems over the next 12–24 months.

What you'll need

• Proven scaling experience: you've scaled or matured an existing People Operations function through a comparable growth range such as 500 to 1,000 employees.
• Hands-on hygiene ownership: you've personally owned contracts, payroll coordination, visas, employee policies, and SOC 2-adjacent compliance.
• Comfortable setting vision and prioritizing, and just as comfortable rolling up your sleeves on execution.
• Real experience with people analytics and data, and willing to build that capability in-house.
• Hands-on work with HRIS platforms like HiBob and driven process automation in a People function.
• Based in Europe.
• Run or built this kind of function at least once before; twice is a plus.
• You know automation is only as good as the process and data behind it, and you don't force AI onto a process that isn't documented or consistent yet.

Nice to have

• Come up through analytics into people ops, or the other way around.
• Partnered with or managed workflow-automation or AI tooling specialists.
• Worked with compensation benchmarking or market-data analysis.
• Scaled a People function inside a remote-first, distributed organization.