Head of Application Security

n8nAI, SaaS

EuropeFull-TimeLead

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Job Details

Languages: English

Requirements

Significant experience leading security in a SaaS, cloud, or product-led technology environment
Strong practical experience in application security
Strong practical experience in cloud or platform security
Strong practical experience in vulnerability management
Strong practical experience in secure engineering practices
Pragmatic risk judgment: define priorities and make trade-offs
Cross-functional influence with engineers, engineering leadership, and non-technical stakeholders
Builder mindset: operate in ambiguity and create structure/standards
Clear communication: explain security risks to technical and non-technical audiences
Security enablement approach: build guardrails, tooling, and workflows for adoption
Incident and vulnerability ownership: experience leading/coordinating disclosure, remediation, and response
Resilience under pressure: stay calm and effective during incidents or high-stakes discussions
Executive maturity and judgment: comfortable representing security externally and internally, balancing urgency, transparency, and decision-making

Responsibilities

Define what “secure” means for n8n across product, platform, and customer-facing security commitments.
Set the security roadmap, clarify priorities, and drive pragmatic decisions on the highest-impact risks.
Act as the company’s central security leader, bringing visibility, direction, and accountability across engineering and leadership.
Build the tooling, guardrails, and workflows that help engineering teams ship secure code without unnecessary friction.
Embed security into the SDLC through pragmatic reviews, standards, automation, and developer education.
Partner with teams across product and engineering to ensure security is considered early in architecture, infrastructure, and delivery decisions.
Own vulnerability management operations, including intake, triage, disclosure, bug bounty coordination, and remediation follow-through.
Lead incident readiness and response by creating playbooks, running exercises, and coordinating investigations when needed.
Drive Trust & Safety enablement by improving how we handle abuse risk, AI-related threat vectors, and platform misuse.
Build and lead n8n’s security function over time, including hiring and shaping the team based on evolving business needs.
Support enterprise growth through strong security questionnaire responses, customer conversations, and clear evidence of our practices.
Establish scalable ways of working with Engineering, IT, Legal, and leadership so security responsibilities are clear and effective.

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