Senior Legal Counsel, Product

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. Job Description 🎯 You will be a trusted legal partner to our Product and R&D leadership and teams, as our privacy and product counsel. As such you will specifically be supporting our Product and R&D teams, developing further our readiness for AI regulation and advising on wider digital regulatory requirements, to allow n8n to keep building and be early. You will also help shape a modern, AI-first legal strategy as part of a growing Legal team, and bring your product insight to the technology and commercial deals where it makes the difference. You will report to the General Counsel. What success looks like after 6 months: you are the go-to legal partner in Product and R&D roadmap, you design and launch reviews, our AI regulation readiness plan is in place with clear owners, and templates and playbooks are updated so the wider Legal team can run standard deals without R&D and Product related escalation.

Responsibilities

Partner with Product and R&D (c. 80% of the role) Partner with the existing Legal team to build out our current approach to AI regulation: EU AI Act readiness and risk classification, AI risk assessments, model and provider due diligence, AI use policies, and customer-facing AI transparency commitments. Partner with others in the Legal team on our response to the wider digital regulatory landscape for software (for example the EU Data Act, and other digital regulation), from horizon scanning through to product readiness and compliance roadmaps. Be the embedded Product and Engineering partner, joining roadmap, design and launch reviews, advising on platform and product terms from the design stage, and turning legal requirements into clear product requirements engineers can build against. Advise on open-source, fair-code and open-core licensing, and on IP questions around AI-generated outputs, machine learning models and training data. Partner with others in the Legal team on privacy questions that arise in product design. Support Product and Engineering with customer, community and regulator questions about how our products meet legal requirements. Support complex technology and commercial deals (c. 20% of the role) Review, draft and negotiate technology-heavy agreements (SaaS and self-hosted), partnership and integration, and AI model and cloud provider contracts. Partner with sales, partnerships and revenue teams on complex enterprise deals with AI or product requirements. Deliver creative, risk-based solutions that protect the business, and feed deal learnings back into product decisions. Scale legal as a business enabler Solve legal questions in real time with a builder mindset. Improve and maintain scalable legal templates, playbooks and training materials together with the Legal team, so that standard deals and product questions do not need legal involvement, so the wider Legal team can run standard deals without escalation. Collaborate with our Automation and Legal Operations to improve our self-serve legal processes and tooling.

REQUIREMENTS

Must-haves ⚖️ Qualified lawyer (Europe-based): You are a qualified legal professional with 5+ years' post-qualification experience (PQE), with at least 3 of those years within an in-house SaaS or technology environment with a start up or scale up company. 💬 Fluent English: You can clearly communicate legal nuance in plain terms to global stakeholders. 🤖 Product, AI and digital regulation expert: You have substantial, hands-on experience of acting as a trusted business partner to and advising technology teams on regulatory matters such as the EU AI Act and related digital regulation and a clear track record of getting up to speed on new regulation quickly. 🔓 Open-source and licensing: You have working knowledge of open-source, fair-code or open-core licensing and how it applies to software products. 🌍 Cross-functional collaborator: You have experience supporting engineers, product managers and sales teams, and can demonstrate how you balance legal risk with product and revenue goals. 🛠️ Builder mindset: You are comfortable with ambiguity, enjoy solving problems with and without a playbook, and look for ways to improve how legal works. 🏃 Fast-scaling environment experience: You have worked where priorities shift quickly and your impact is immediate. 📄 Commercial and technology contracts: You have solid working experience with SaaS and self-hosted software license agreements. Nice-to-haves 🧠 Curiosity for tech and automation: You are excited to experiment with legal tech, AI tools and scalable internal systems. 🎓 AI or technology law credentials: for example AIGP, or equivalent practical experience. 💬 Other Languages: You can communicate in German with customers and stakeholders. Why join