Senior Legal Counsel US; Remote East Coast
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 650,000 active developers and builders
Earned 145k+ Git Hub 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.
🎯 Your main goal will be to anchor n8n’s US go‑to‑market by accelerating Enterprise and Mid‑Market deal velocity as the on‑the‑ground legal lead who can make principled risk calls without escalation.
To do so, here are your responsibilities:
Own US commercial contractingLead end‑to‑end negotiation of complex enterprise SaaS agreements, with a special focus on banks and financial services.
Make clear, business‑savvy risk trade‑offs within agreed guardrails to unblock revenue quickly.
Reduce outside counsel spend and cycle time by providing responsive coverage across US time zones.
Create, localize, and maintain AMER‑specific playbooks, fallback positions, and clause libraries.
Partner with legal ops to standardize templates, automate workflows, and scale deal desk processes.
Train GTM teams on positions and escalation paths to drive consistency.
Advise on US privacy/marketing laws (CCPA/CPRA, state patchwork, cookies/lead‑gen) and align with SOC 2 buyer expectations.
Counsel Product on AI‑powered features, data usage, and state AI guidance; operationalize international data transfer mechanisms.
Coordinate with Security and IT to address customer questionnaires and regulatory riders.
Partner with Sales, CS, Rev Ops, Finance, and Marketing to streamline quote‑to‑close and renewals.
Influence deal desk and pricing/packaging motions with practical, data‑driven guidance.
Provide strategic commercial counsel on US expansion and regulatory strategy.
Lead support for n8n US Inc. on corporate governance and commercial vendor contracts.
Implement contract tooling and metadata hygiene to enable reporting and insights.
Own continuous improvement of processes in a fast‑moving, high‑ambiguity environment.
📄 6–10 years’ PQE in commercial SaaS: You have deep in‑house experience closing complex enterprise deals and owning redlines to signature.
⚖️ Active US bar membership: You’re licensed and in good standing, able to advise across US jurisdictions.
🔐 US privacy & marketing expertise: You navigate CCPA/CPRA and the state patchwork, cookies/lead‑gen rules, and understand SOC 2 buyer expectations.
🏦 Finserv enterprise negotiations: You’ve closed with banks/finserv, handling security, data protection, AI, and regulatory riders with confidence.
🧭 Judgment & communication: You make principled, business‑aligned risk calls and communicate them crisply to executives and Sales.
🧰 Playbooks & tooling: You’ve built playbooks/clause libraries and implemented contract tooling to scale commercial operations.
⏱️ US time zone coverage: You provide responsive support that reduces…
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