Legal Operations Manager

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 160 - 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 650000 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

• And are grateful for our 94 eNPS score (most companies would call 70 excellent)

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.

⚠️ This is an individual contributor role with no direct report.

🎯 Your main goal will be to build an AI-first legal operations backbone that accelerates revenue reduces legal touchpoints per transaction and gives leadership real-time visibility into risk and performance.

To do so here are your responsibilities:

AI-FIRST SELF-SERVICE CONTRACTING

• Stand up scalable self-service for NDAs intake approvals and standard docs using n8n and AI review/playbooks.

• Deploy first-pass AI contract review risk flagging and playbook suggestions to speed TTS with guardrails.

• Launch an “@ask-legal” Slack assistant and a lightweight request portal to triage and deflect routine questions.

LEGAL TECH STACK & SOURCE OF TRUTH

• Own the legal tooling roadmap and integrations across Salesforce procurement Finance Security/IT and data sources.

• Define and maintain a reliable source of truth for contracts matters and obligations with clean data and audit trails.

• Manage vendors/partners; evaluate implement and optimize Wordsmith and adjacent AI/automation tools.

KNOWLEDGE RECORDS & COMPLIANCE READINESS

• Centralize corporate records and entity housekeeping; maintain templates playbooks and prompt libraries.

• Build a searchable legal knowledge base with versioning ownership and documentation standards.

• Improve audit/readiness posture with evidence capture automated reminders/controls and partnership with Compliance/Security.

METRICS & PROGRAM LEADERSHIP

• Build real-time dashboards for deal velocity bottlenecks renewal health risk events and OC spend.

• Propose roadmap KPIs and quarterly plans; communicate progress and trade-offs to executive stakeholders.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives as a senior IC; pilot ship and iterate based on data and feedback.

REQUIREMENTS

Must-haves

• 🧩 Legal operations or paralegal experience: You bring 3–5 years in legal ops contract management or as a paralegal ideally in B2B SaaS.

• 🤖 Automation & AI mindset: You’re excited to use AI and no/low-code to transform legal work and can build workflows from scratch.

• 📊 Data-driven operator: You build dashboards track KPIs and use insights to prioritize and improve processes.

• 📄 Contract fluency: You confidently handle non-complex agreements (e.g. NDAs DPAs) and know when to escalate.

• 🏗️ Builder mentality: You create scalable systems ship quickly iterate and document as you go.

• 🤝 Cross-functional collaborator: You communicate crisply exercise pragmatic judgment and partner effectively across teams and time zones.

Nice-to-haves

• 🎓 Legal background: You hold a paralegal certification legal studies or deep contract exposure.

• 🏛️ Corporate law exposure: You understand corporate housekeeping audits and filing obligations.

• 🔗 No-/low-code experience: You’ve used tools like n8n Make or Zapier to automate workflows.

• ⚡ High-growth startup chops: You’ve thrived in fast-scaling environments with competing priorities.

Why join us?

At n8n your work won’t disappear into a slide deck. You’ll design and own a modern AI-first legal ops stack—building with n8n in n8n—to unlock deal velocity and revenue at one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups. You’ll partner directly with the Head of Legal & Compliance and cross-functional leaders shape our playbooks and data foundations and see the impact of your work across the company. You’ll join a supportive remote-first team that values autonomy experimentation and continuous learning.

Sound like a challenge you’re excited to take on?

Apply now — and help us build the future of automation.

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 our Diversity Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n ( https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35 ).

Location disclaimer: 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.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.

• Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.

• Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:

  • Europe: 30 days of vacation plus public holidays wherever you are.

  • US: 15 vacation days 8 sick days plus public holidays wherever you are.

• Health & wellness 🩺 –

  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*

  • US : Multiple low-premium low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.

• Future planning 💰 –

  • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*

  • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.

• Financial security 🛡️ –

  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*

  • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.

• Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses books events or coaching to level up your skills.

• A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!

• Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles like sales in the US are hybrid—please check the job description.

• Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.

• AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.

• Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on how the company is doing—the whole shebang.

• An ambitious but kind culture 😍 – People love working here—our eNPS for 2024 is 94!

* Country-specific details are provided in your contract.