Lead Technical Writer | Berlin or Europe remote

n8n is a low-code platform for workflow automation and AI app integration, designed for technical users. It simplifies connecting to any app or API and enables the incorporation of AI into business processes. n8n is Source Code Available and has a passionate and engaged community of builders!

We were founded end of 2019 and currently:

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We’re a diverse team of + 50 talented people

🚀 Our annual recurring revenue is growing 5x year-over-year

⭐️ With +40k GitHub stars, we in the top 500 most popular projects on Github

🌱 We now count a total of $20m in funding: we were Sequoia's first seed investment in Germany, and most recently secured a Series A extension (February 2024)

Your role

We're looking for a hands-on Lead Technical Writer to own and build our technical documentation [https://docs.n8n.io/] as well as currently having one direct report + managing potential external contractors.

• Own our technical documentation to accelerate the adoption of n8n by helping people autonomously get unstuck and ensuring the easiest possible user experience
• Lead a small team of internal and external writers
• Collect feedback from the community and analyse data to get signals on where to improve the usability of our docs
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to gather information and ensure the accuracy of the documentation.
• Stay up to date with best practice and trends, and implement them in our documentation
• Understand company goals and strategy and use them to prioritize workflow for the docs

Tools/processes we useSite: MKDocs with the Material theme.

Deployment and hosting: Netlify

Linting: Vale and Lexi

Contributing and collaborating: git and GitHub, Linear

Link to Docs repo: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n-docs

Requirements

• Proven experience owning and writing technical content & documentation for developers, SaaS, and B2B products.
• Some programming experience, ideally in a professional capacity, with Node.js and JavaScript
• A product mindset: able to put yourself in users' shoes and come up with creative ways of making user journeys simpler and easier
• A strong editorial eye and attention to detail
• Fluent-level writing skills in English

• You're curious and you love learning new stuff (super important)
• You're humble, kind, and are open to feedback (super duper important)

Benefits

💸 Competitive compensation

💪Ownership: Our core value is to “empower others”, and we give you a slice of n8n in the form of equity.

🏖️Work/life balance: We work hard, but make sure everyone can properly recharge their batteries with 30 days holiday, plus public holidays wherever you are.

📈Career growth: We are looking to hire 'rising stars', who can grow with the company into more senior roles. We give you €1k a year to spend on courses, books, events and coaching, to support you in developing your career.

🤩A passionate team: We love our product, and we have regular office hackathons to see who can build the coolest thing with it!

🌏Remote-first: Our team works remote from anywhere within Europe but we have regular off-sites to help build team bonds and alignment.

🙏Transparency: We all know what everyone’s working on, how’s the company doing — the whole shebang.

🤝 Giving back: We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about. 😍 Ambitious but kind culture where people love to work - our eNPS for 2023 is 100!

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, 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.

This role can be done from anywhere within Europe. We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work. Our company language is English.

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.