Legal Operations Manager in England

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 are changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.

Since our founding, we have 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 have:

• Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 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
• 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)

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 are 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 prioritise 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 have used tools like n8n, Make, or Zapier to automate workflows.
• High-growth startup chops: You have thrived in fast-scaling environments with competing priorities.

Why join us?

At n8n, your work won’t disappear into a slide deck. You will 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 will 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 will 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.

Our equal opportunity statement: 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.

Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we are 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 are 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 will 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 will 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 are big fans of open source, and you will 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 the last year is 94.

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