--- title: 'Product Marketing Lead at Kernel' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-marketing-lead-kernel-london-c3faz23z02te' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-15' --- # Product Marketing Lead at Kernel - **Company:** Kernel - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kernel/75071010-6679-4648-b9d0-65a97c818efc ## Job description ## About Kernel AI agents are starting to do sales, procurement and operations work. They need to know which company they are dealing with. Most company data is in CRMs, ERPs and third-party datasets. Records are duplicated, parent companies are missing, and addresses are outdated. This costs sales teams revenue and leaves operations and finance teams with avoidable risk and bad debt. Agents need a business identity layer they can trust. Kernel is building that layer: the business registry for agents. Every business gets a permanent KERN ID, along with the context an agent needs to act on it. Ops, data and revenue teams at Gong, Legora, Mistral, Canva and Checkout already use Kernel in their own systems, and we expect agents to use it far more. We have raised $14M from top VCs and operators at Plaid, OpenAI, Slack and others, and we are growing 5x YoY. ## The role You’ll be Kernel’s Product Marketing Lead, building product marketing from the ground up. There’s a lot of potential here, and you’ll set the direction. Your mission: make Kernel easy to understand and easy to buy, for customers and for the partners who sell it. ## What you’ll do - Own positioning and narrative: for customers we sell to directly and for our partners. - Write the technical story: work with Anders, Marcus, and Zak on product positioning and technical documentation. - Own announcements and launches: plan each one and get it out. - Equip sales: work with the sales team on messaging, demos and battlecards. - Build our social proof: case studies and customer references. - 5% “other stuff”: events, the website and anything else that helps the business. ## What we’re looking for - Most important is product marketing experience at a high-growth startup and examples of work that had a real impact on the business. - You have written technical content before. - You have led large projects such as a launch or a repositioning, and set the plan yourself. - You work fast and closely with sales and the founders. - You have taste and you execute well. - Experience with video content is a plus but not a requirement. ⚠️ This role may not be for you if you: - Need other product marketers around you to work best. - Prefer to be handed a brief than to write one. - Need perfect clarity before starting. - Prefer long cycles and big “reveals.” - Want fully remote work (we move faster in-person). ## What We Offer We will do our best to offer you a ride of a lifetime. It will not be easy, but it will be thrilling. - 💰 Salary: £90,000 – £120,000 base + equity - 🗓️ 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 and central London office - 🎉 Team events and dinners - 🚀 Work directly with the founders to scale the systems that power enterprise AI - 🏆 High-autonomy, high-trust environment with a small team shipping at pace 🎫 Visas & Relocation We sponsor visas for exceptional candidates and provide relocation support for those moving to London. Interview Process Stage 1: Introductory Call with Zak, Founding Growth (30 minutes) Stage 2: Case Study with Zak & Anders (CEO) Final Stage: Founders Interview. A conversation with the founders focused on values alignment and long-term vision. Following Mutual Fit: Reference checks and offer stage. ## About Kernel ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Kernel provides an AI-powered agentic entity database that guarantees accurate, persistent firmographic data for revenue operations teams. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, raised in September 2023) - **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX) - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Marcus Henglein (CEO and Co‑founder) and other co‑founders (names not publicly listed) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI‑powered data management / RevOps (Revenue Operations) - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise go‑to‑market teams, specifically RevOps professionals at high‑growth companies - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Build the source of truth for enterprise AI” – turning CRM data into a reliable foundation for AI‑driven decisions. ## Products & Services - **Kernel Platform (SaaS)**: An agentic entity database that resolves messy CRM records to unique, persistent KERN IDs. It enriches accounts with accurate hierarchies and firmographics, detects duplicates, and applies expert‑level corrections at scale. The platform continuously maintains data to align with each customer’s go‑to‑market strategy. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – Seed round (September 2023) from 2 undisclosed investors; amount not disclosed. **Headcount** – 43 employees (LinkedIn, July 2025), with +123.1% YoY growth. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors from the Seed round are not named. Customers include **Gong, Navan, Remote, Zip, Cognism, and Mistral AI**. - **Growth Signals**: - Processes **petabytes** of data and runs **1.8M+ AI agents daily**; handles **7B tokens per day**. - Claims a **4x accuracy improvement** over legacy data tools and a **14% → 90%+ average increase in CRM record accuracy**. - Headcount grew from ~11 to 43 in one year, with presence in 6 countries (UK, US, Germany, Denmark, Romania, Sweden). ## Competitive Advantages - **Guaranteed accuracy**: Kernel explicitly guarantees data accuracy; if an error is found, Kernel investigates and fixes it. - **Persistent KERN ID**: Survives domain changes, rebrands, and acquisitions – provides a single source of truth across systems. - **AI agents with reasoning**: Agents crawl and reason over CRM context and public sources, producing justifiable, expert‑level decisions. - **Continuous maintenance**: Unlike one‑time data providers, Kernel updates and aligns data with each customer’s evolving sales strategy. - **Transparency**: Every data point includes a reasoning explainer and source citation, building auditability and trust. ## Strategic Focus - Scale the platform to become the default entity‑resolution layer for enterprise AI. - Expand customer base among high‑growth B2B companies, particularly those with complex hierarchies and multi‑geography sales. - Deepen AI agent capabilities for automation of RevOps workflows (territory planning, whitespace identification, account merging). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “No sugar, no salt” – candid, direct feedback; “Play to win” – competitive, cross‑team intensity; “Customer Shareholders” – customer‑first mindset. - **Work environment**: **On‑site** in a central London office with a gym, top‑spec equipment, free dinner, and regular team events. Hybrid not explicitly stated, but the Built In profile lists “OnSite Workspace”. - **Perks**: 24 days holiday + bank holidays, work abroad 2 weeks per year, visa sponsorship, relocation bonus, employee‑friendly equity (meaningful option grants), and free dinner. - **Engineering culture**: Early‑stage opportunity – work directly with founders, shape infrastructure for enterprise AI. The company is solving a hard data‑accuracy problem, appealing to engineers who enjoy reasoning about edge cases. - **Growth**: High headcount growth and a strong customer roster signal a fast‑scaling startup with career acceleration potential. ## Sources 1. [kernel.ai](https://www.kernel.ai/) 2. [kernel.ai/company/careers](https://kernel.ai/company/careers) 3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/kernel](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kernel) 4. [builtin.com/company/kernel-ai](https://builtin.com/company/kernel-ai) 5. 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