Support Engineering Team Lead | Remote | US
n8nAbout the role
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 188+ 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.
Your main goal will be to ensure a predictable, high-quality, and scalable support engineering operation while empowering your team to perform at their best.
To achieve this, you’ll act as the operational backbone of your domain—owning execution, driving consistency, and continuously improving how we support our users.
Location: Remote, United States. Candidates must be based in one of the following states: California, Massachusetts, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Florida, or Texas.
What you’ll do
Day-to-day leadership & team enablement
Run weekly team meetings, share key metrics, and track OKR progress
Manage and mentor part of the team through 1:1s, feedback, and growth support
Escalation point to the team
Take part on the hiring process
Cross functional work with other team leads
Onboard new members to the team by ensuring tools, processes and enablement needs are covered
Queue ownership & operational excellence
Monitor queue health (backlog, aging, spikes) and ensure tickets flow smoothly
Investigate stuck tickets and drive them to resolution
Remove blockers by coordinating with Tier2, Engineering, Product, or Support stakeholders
Track key KPIs (e.g. average first response, resolution, number of replies) and ensure fast feedback loops
Scheduling & coverage management
Design and maintain schedules to ensure consistent team coverage
Adapt staffing based on volume, PTO, and ongoing projects/events
Balance workload across the team to avoid burnout and inefficiencies
Quality, CSAT & continuous improvement
Run QA checks on tickets to maintain high support standards
Review CSAT feedback and turn insights into concrete improvements
Identify recurring issues and build playbooks or automations to solve them
Project & domain health
Track project and cycle health, ensuring steady delivery and follow-ups
Maintain clean and up-to-date Linear cycles and weekly project updates
Keep visibility on risks, blockers, and progress across initiatives
Maintain a list of top customer pain points and share insights across teams
Core Requirements
Must-have
Support Engineering experience: You have hands-on experience in a technical support or support engineering role in a SaaS environment
Technical depth (APIs / workflows): You are comfortable debugging integrations, APIs, or workflow-based systems
Operational ownership: You are used to owning queues, metrics, and day-to-day operations with a strong sense of accountability
Escalation ownership: You know when and how to escalate. You write escalations that lead with customer name, ARR, business impact, and data — not vague summaries. When a bug is confirmed, you open the ticket immediately and communicate that to the customer. You do not
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