Product Designer (Sponsorship Available) At Kernel

Employer: Kernel
Job Title: Product Designer
Location: London, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
Salary: £85,000 – £95,000 a year
Job Type: Full-time

About Kernel

Kernel provides enterprise RevOps teams with AI-powered company data for their CRMs. Kernel raised $14M in Series A funding from top VCs and operators at Plaid, OpenAI, and Slack to build an AI-native alternative to Dun & Bradstreet’s entity and hierarchy data.

RevOps teams at Navan, Gong, Mistral, and AlphaSense use Kernel to run their organizations.

At Kernel, 7B+ tokens are processed a day and 1.8M+ agents are run daily, all on an architecture that’s intentionally simple: one database, one queue. It’s minimalism built for massive scale (For reference, Wikipedia has 2.3B tokens in the English wikipedia). The queue processes a daily volume on par with the entire Visa network’s transactions (~365M/day). All of which has been built by a small but mighty team of engineers.

The Role

The role is Kernel’s first Product Designer position — a foundational hire with end-to-end ownership of core product UX.

The mission is to simplify complexity and make a powerful product feel effortless through clearer workflows, sharper mental models, fewer decisions, and more confidence.

Kernel is not hiring for seniority, but for impact.

What You’ll Do

• Own core UX end-to-end: flows, IA, interaction design, and visual craft

• Run ground-truth discovery: lead user interviews, synthesize fast, turn insight into shipped changes

• Prototype quickly using tools such as Figma, v0, and Figma Make

• Ship with engineering and product management through tight feedback loops and rapid iteration

• Build the design foundation including principles, patterns, and a lightweight system

• Provide occasional support with decks and narrative when it moves the business

What Kernel Is Looking For (Impact Over Seniority)

• Experience shipping meaningful product work with the ability to explain decisions and outcomes

• Strong ability to simplify complexity beyond surface-level UI polishing

• Capability to run discovery independently and uncover real insights

• Fast execution, clear communication, and close collaboration with engineers

• Strong taste and execution with attention to production details

This Role May Not Be a Fit If You

• Need perfect clarity before starting

• Prefer long cycles and large reveal-style launches

• Want fully remote work

What Kernel Offers

• Salary: £85,000 – £95,000 plus equity

• 24 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

• 2 weeks work-from-anywhere

• Pension plan

• Top-spec equipment and a central London office

• High-autonomy, high-trust environment with a small team shipping at pace

• Free dinner at the office

• Team events and dinners

• Direct collaboration with founders to scale enterprise AI systems

Visas & Relocation

Kernel sponsors visas for exceptional candidates and provides relocation support for those moving to London.

Interview Process

Stage 1: Introductory call (30 minutes)
Stage 2: Portfolio deep dive (60 minutes) with Marcus, the Hiring Manager, focused on ways of working and collaboration
Stage 3: On-site working session (60–90 minutes)
Final Stage: Founders interview with Anders (CEO) and Marcus focused on values alignment and long-term vision (60 minutes)
Following Mutual Fit: Reference checks and offer stage

Compensation Range

£85,000 – £95,000

How to Apply

If this opportunity interests you, head to the company’s official website for full details — click here to submit your application.