Jan Oberhauser

Jan Oberhauser is a founder and product executive with over seven years of experience who serves as the Founder and CEO of n8n. In this role, he leads the strategy, development, and execution of the company's open-source workflow automation and orchestration platform, serving hundreds of thousands of builders and enterprises like Meta, Nvidia, Dell, Accenture, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, and Mercedes. Jan oversees a multidisciplinary product organization focused on empowering the people closest to the problem to build their own automations, and his leadership has been central to n8n's rapid evolution from a workflow tool into a comprehensive, AI-native ecosystem where agent orchestration, model routing, and enterprise-grade guardrails intersect.

At n8n, Jan drives the design and launch of highly composable, AI-powered automations built to help cross-functional teams achieve measurable operational leverage. He pioneered the "fair-code" license, an alternative to traditional open source that made n8n free to self-host while sustaining a $5.2 billion business and nearly 200,000 GitHub stars, and today over 500 integrations and 10,000 community templates power adoption across the enterprise. With a deep commitment to turning complex workflows into tangible action, Jan specializes in equipping non-technical builders to ship production-grade AI agents that route real work, replace repetitive processes, and scale seamlessly.