Founding Product Designer

The role

You will be the Founding Product Designer shaping how people experience Kernel. You will own core UX end-to-end, run user discovery, and build the design foundation.

What you will do

• Own core UX end-to-end including flows, IA, interaction design, and visual craft
• Run ground-truth discovery through user interviews and insight synthesis
• Prototype quickly using tools like Figma, v0, Figma Make, or code
• Ship with engineering and PM in tight loops
• Build the design foundation including principles, patterns, and a lightweight system
• Occasional help with decks and narrative

Required qualifications

• Early-stage startup experience
• Shipped meaningful product work and can walk through decisions and outcomes
• Strong at simplifying complexity
• Can run discovery independently
• Moves fast, communicates clearly, and collaborates tightly with engineers
• Has taste and execution from prototype to production details

Nice to have

• Founding designer experience

Benefits

• 24 days holiday per year + bank holidays
• £450 Monthly Office Dinner Allowance
• 2 weeks work-from-anywhere
• Generous parental leave policy
• Pension plan
• Top-spec equipment
• Central London office
• Team events and dinners
• Work directly with the founders
• High-autonomy, high-trust environment

Before you apply

• We sponsor visas for exceptional candidates
• Relocation support is provided for those moving to London
• Interview process includes an introductory call, founding team conversation, take-home assessment with remote working session, and founders interview
• Reference checks follow mutual fit

About the company

Kernel is building a business identity layer for agents. They have raised $20M from VCs and operators at Plaid, OpenAI, Slack and others.