Tech companies are hiring across Europe, and right now three of them, n8n, Deel and Revolut, have 160 roles open to candidates based in Ireland, alongside candidates in dozens of other countries. That 160 is from a total of 780 open roles that these three companies have open, which means Irish-based talent is currently eligible to apply for 20% everything they’re hiring for. The question is how much of that 20% will land in Ireland.
Our Pre-Budget Submission 2027, Consolidating Remote Work in Ireland’s Economic and Social Future, opens with a call to consolidate Ireland as a leader in remote work and increase the supply of remote jobs. Over 100,000 remote jobs are advertised across the European Economic Area every month, and up to 350,000 existing jobs in Ireland could be done remotely if the right supports were in place. Yet Ireland has no national target for remote job creation, and enterprise agency frameworks, built around site-based employment, don’t currently capture distributed employers like these three. Grow Remote is calling for a National Remote Jobs Strategy: a defined national target for remote jobs, a dedicated unit within existing enterprise agencies to bring more remote employers to Ireland, and a role for Ireland in leading the conversation on remote work at EU level. This recommendation supports, amongst others, two key existing government strategies: the National Digital and AI Strategy 2030, and the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment’s Sectoral Capital Plan 2026-2030.
n8n, Deel and Revolut are already offering jobs to people in Ireland. We want them to land here.
n8n is a Berlin-headquartered company that makes it easier for businesses to connect their different software tools and AI models together, so tasks that used to need manual work or custom code can run automatically. Customers using it for that include Volkswagen, Delivery Hero, KPMG and Vodafone. The company is well backed: last October it closed a $180 million Series C funding round at a $2.5 billion valuation, led by Accel with participation from Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures, Sequoia Capital and Highland Europe.
Deel is a platform many distributed companies use to hire, pay and manage employees and contractors in more than 150 countries without setting up a legal entity in each one. It handles payroll, compliance, benefits and equity so a company can employ someone in Ireland, or anywhere else, without the paperwork that would normally take months. Deel is also well backed, and at a much larger scale than n8n: it closed a $300 million Series E last October at a $17.3 billion valuation, led by Ribbit Capital with existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Coatue Management also participating.
Revolut is the most familiar of the three: the banking and payments app that most Irish adults already use to send money, pay for things, and hold accounts in different currencies. It holds a European banking licence that lets it operate as a full bank across the EU, including Ireland. It’s also, by some distance, the most valuable of the three companies here: a share sale in late 2025 valued the business at $75 billion, making it one of Europe’s most valuable private companies.
Between them, n8n, Deel and Revolut currently have 779 roles open globally. 161 of those roles list Ireland among the eligible locations: 20 at n8n, 62 at Deel, and 79 at Revolut.
The jobs themselves
n8n’s 20 Ireland-eligible roles are listed as “Remote,” with Ireland one of more than two dozen eligible countries for each one. They break down as:
- Engineering (4 roles) — Senior Product Engineer, Senior AI Engineer, Senior Growth Engineer and Staff Core Platform Engineer, paying from roughly €72,800 up to €201,600.
- Product (5 roles) — Head of Product Design, Senior/Staff Product Designer, and three Senior Product Manager positions, paying up to €271,900 for the design lead role and between €89,700 and €152,300 for the product management roles.
- Revenue operations and marketing (5 roles) — VP Revenue Marketing, Global Director of Revenue Enablement, Head of Pricing and Monetization, Sales Compensation Manager, and a Strategy & Operations Manager for Partnerships.
- Sales (6 roles) — an EMEA Account Executive talent pool, an Enterprise Account Executive role for Northern Europe, a Forward Deployed Engineer, a Technical Programs Manager, a Senior Partner Manager, and Head of Solutions Engineering, with published pay running up to €244,725 plus commission.
Every one of the twenty sits at senior, staff or leadership level. There’s nothing junior or entry-level in the set.
Deel’s 62 Ireland-eligible roles span nearly every function in the business, including engineering, product and design, data and analytics, operations, payroll, finance, and customer onboarding. A handful are advertised for Ireland specifically: a Senior Data Analyst on the Product team, a Director of Operations paying $130,000–$150,000, a Payroll Implementation Manager paying $50,000–$60,000, and a Senior Product Operations Manager for EMEA paying $52,000–$130,000. Most of the rest are listed for “Multiple Locations,” with Ireland among the countries eligible to apply. The seniority spread here is much wider than at n8n: pay across Deel’s open roles runs from around $40,000 for an Operations Manager on the Payroll Solutions team up to $250,000–$300,000 for a General Manager of its Employer of Record business, with plenty of mid-level operations, implementation and product roles in between.
Revolut’s 79 Ireland-eligible roles look different again, and at a much larger volume than the other two combined. The majority, 56 of the 79, are sales and account management roles built around specific European markets: Graduate Sales Executive and Account Executive positions covering Germany, Italy, the Nordics, the Baltics, Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Benelux and more, all based remotely in Ireland (among other eligible countries) while the person works a market they don’t need to live in. Eleven of these are explicitly graduate-level, a genuine first-job-out-of-college route into fintech sales rather than something requiring years of experience. The remaining 23 roles cover credit, treasury, product, engineering, and a substantial compliance and risk cluster, including a Head of Regulatory Compliance, a Financial Crime Compliance Manager, an Auditor for financial crime, and a Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer, reflecting the scale of Revolut’s regulatory footprint as a licensed bank. Revolut doesn’t publish salary ranges on these listings, so pay can’t be compared directly with the other two companies, and Revolut already has an existing Dublin office, unlike n8n and Deel, which have no physical presence in Ireland.
Ireland isn’t singled out by any of the three companies. It’s one country in a list that runs to two dozen-plus other eligible countries for n8n, well over a hundred for Deel, and a similar spread of European markets for Revolut. Whether any of these 161 roles land with someone based in Cork, Sligo or Dublin rather than Tallinn, Lisbon or São Paulo isn’t something any of the three employers has a preference on. They’ll simply hire whoever is the best candidate. Making sure that person is based in Ireland is a job for Ireland, not for n8n, Deel or Revolut.
What landing these roles would actually mean
161 roles is a small number next to the 350,000 existing Irish jobs our Pre-Budget Submission 2027 estimates could be done remotely with the right supports. But n8n, Deel and Revolut are all hiring this way at the same time: a Berlin automation company, a San Francisco payroll platform, and a $75 billion EU neobank, with roles ranging from graduate sales positions to director and general manager level.
That pattern is exactly what determines whether remote work delivers the dispersal benefit our submission argues for. Every one of these 161 roles is remote, not hybrid, so someone hired into one of them isn’t tied to Dublin the way a hybrid role would tie them; they could build a life in Mayo or Waterford as easily as in Dublin 2. Doing that eases pressure on Dublin’s housing and transport that a Dublin-based hire wouldn’t, sustains spending and services in a town that needs them, and cuts the commuting emissions that come from concentrating jobs in one city. Revolut’s market-coverage sales roles make this especially concrete: they’re a modern version of the internationally traded services model, call centres and shared-service hubs covering European markets, that Ireland has run successfully for decades, just done from a home office anywhere in the country rather than an office park in one city.
There’s a retention and attraction angle too, and it isn’t limited to senior professionals. For Irish graduates and early-career candidates, Revolut’s graduate sales roles are a live route into a well-known, well-backed employer without needing to move to Dublin or another market first. For more experienced professionals across engineering, product, operations, payroll, credit, risk and compliance, these 161 roles are live alternatives to a domestic employer, arriving in the same job search with salaries and equity that many Irish employers would need to stretch to match. If only a few of them end up going to someone based in Ireland, that’s more likely because nobody made sure candidates knew the roles existed, than because Irish candidates weren’t competitive for them.
Several roles across all three companies are explicitly about coordinating distributed teams: n8n’s Forward Deployed Engineer and Head of Solutions Engineering roles, Deel’s Implementation Consultant and Senior HR Implementation Consultant roles working across EMEA and LATAM, and Revolut’s market-specific sales roles, which by design put someone in Ireland working daily with colleagues and customers spread across a dozen or more countries. Managing that well is a specific skill, not something that happens automatically once the infrastructure and legal barriers to remote work are cleared, which is exactly the gap our Lead from Anywhere programme was built to close for Irish managers and teams stepping into roles like these.
What €1 million in landed salary would actually do
Eight specific roles across n8n and Deel, at the midpoint of their published salary bands, add up to a combined annual salary of just under €1 million. Revolut isn’t part of this list as none of its listings publish a salary range.
| Role | Company | Salary band | Midpoint used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Product Design | n8n | €125,000 – €271,900 | €198,450 |
| Staff Core Platform Engineer | n8n | €127,500 – €201,600 | €164,550 |
| Senior AI Engineer | n8n | €102,200 – €189,900 | €146,050 |
| Senior Product Engineer | n8n | €72,800 – €171,700 | €122,250 |
| Senior Product Manager – Core Experience | n8n | €89,700 – €152,300 | €121,000 |
| Director, Operations (Ireland) | Deel | $130,000 – $150,000 | €120,400 |
| Senior Product Operations Manager, EMEA (Ireland) | Deel | $52,000 – $130,000 | €78,260 |
| Payroll Implementation Manager (Ireland) | Deel | $50,000 – $60,000 | €47,300 |
| Total | €998,260 |
Applying the same methodology set out in Grow Remote’s Workings, which measures the incremental gain against the average salary in Ireland’s five lowest-income counties (€42,874): eight roles, just under €1 million in combined salary. Over €650,000 in incremental GDP, more than €425,000 in local spend, roughly 6 local jobs sustained, and at least €90,000 in incremental tax revenue a year, likely more once the significantly higher salaries are properly tax-modelled.
Where this connects to our Pre-Budget Submission 2027
n8n, Deel and Revolut’s current hiring rounds are one small, specific instance of what a dedicated enterprise agency unit for remote employers would act on: 161 roles, open today, spanning graduate to executive level, that Ireland has no active mechanism for pursuing on behalf of its own talent pool. A national target for remote job creation would give that unit something concrete to work toward, and a way to show whether efforts like this one are actually landing roles with people living and paying tax in Ireland, rather than leaving that outcome to chance.
Our submission also notes that Ireland, thanks to low employer social insurance contributions and competitive salaries, is already one of the more cost-effective countries in Western Europe for employers hiring remote talent. That advantage doesn’t help candidates competing for roles like these unless something connects it to them directly, which is also where Ireland leading the conversation on remote work at EU level matters: it’s the difference between Ireland responding to hiring rounds like these as they happen, and Ireland shaping the EU-wide policy environment they happen inside.
Why this matters
Ireland has the infrastructure, the broadband, the flexible working legislation and the talent pool to compete for hiring rounds like these. What’s missing, as we set out in the submission, is the coordinated national strategy to actively pursue distributed employers, and the training layer to make sure the people who land these roles, and the teams around them, know how to work well inside a fully distributed company. n8n, Deel and Revolut’s current hiring rounds are a specific, immediate test of whether Ireland has that strategy in place, and Budget 2027 is the moment to put it there.
Grow Remote is an Irish social enterprise working to unlock the economic, social, and environmental potential of remote work for individuals, employers, and communities across Ireland.
Read our full Pre-Budget Submission 2027, Consolidating Remote Work in Ireland’s Economic and Social Future.
Learn more about our Lead from Anywhere programme for managers and teams working across distributed companies.
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