Strategy & Operations Manager - Partnerships

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 d 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 ing, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and 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. Partnerships is still a young motion at n8n, and that's exactly what makes it exciting. Despite strong inbound interest, we're early in building this out, with ambitious growth targets and strong executive backing.

The team is scaling quickly, new leadership is joining soon, and there's real momentum from recent strategic partnership wins. You'd be shaping strategy and operations across a genuinely broad ecosystem, spanning GSIs, affiliates, agencies, resellers, tech partners, education partners, and hyperscalers, with real room to define how it's structured and run rather than inheriting someone else's playbook. Your main goal will be to become n8n's dedicated architect of Partner Ecosystem strategy and operations, building the systems, data, and processes that let this fast-growing partner network scale alongside n8n's growth. To do so, here are your responsibilities: Channel Program Operations - Own the operational infrastructure powering n8n's global partner ecosystem across reseller and referral segments. - Design and maintain partner-attributed pipeline tracking, keeping sourced, influenced, and co-sell deals accurately categorized in Salesforce. - Build and maintain channel reporting frameworks covering partner-sourced MRR, activation rates, deal registration, and tier performance. Partner Performance & Pipeline - Support partner pipeline inspection and forecast roll-ups alongside Channel Sales leadership. - Develop reporting and insights that drive partner growth and sharpen program performance. - Build channel-specific territory and routing logic so partner-sourced leads and registered deals are prioritized and attributed correctly. Program & Systems Administration - Own configuration and adoption of partner-facing tools, including the partner portal and Salesforce's channel-specific objects. - Maintain documentation and training materials covering channel processes, rules of engagement, and partner program policies. - Manage partner tier qualification, tracking certifications and activity thresholds, while using AI-enabled tools to streamline and scale the work. Cross-Functional Collaboration - Partner with Channel Sales, Revenue Operations, Marketing, Legal, and Finance to operationalize GTM motions like co-marketing campaigns and partner enablement launches. - Serve as the channel operations subject matter expert across cross-functional planning cycles, from annual planning to QBRs and GTM launches. - Triage and support ad hoc requests, partner escalations, and troubleshooting as they come up.