Founders Associate (Recruitment & Operations)

About Kernel

Kernel enables revenue teams to research companies as if they had unlimited time.

We’re growing extremely fast and working with many of the best revenue teams in the world like Remote.com, Navan, Zip, GoCardless, Cognism, and many more.

Previously, revenue teams relied on manual research to understand if a company had the problem they solved: Do job descriptions indicate doing what you automate? Who do they sell to? Is non-public financial data estimated to the right size? And what does this data tell me about their corporate card spend? Their travel expenses?

Our customers use Kernel to find this for every relevant company in the world to get complete overviews of ideal customers and pursue the right companies.

We’re a team of second-time founders and have raised $5mm+ (more announcements coming soon...) from top VCs and revenue leaders at Open AI, Slack, Snowflake, and MongoDB.

The Role

We’re now hiring a Founder’s Associate focused on Recruitment & Operations — a high-impact, high-autonomy role working directly with the leadership team. This is a unique opportunity for someone early in their career who wants to move fast, solve hard problems, and grow rapidly within a startup environment. This is an exciting opportunity to join Kernel at a formative stage, with plenty of room to grow into a broader People/Operations role as we mature our internal processes and team structure.

Recruitment & People Ops

• Build and own the end-to-end recruitment pipeline — from sourcing to scheduling — to help Kernel attract top-tier talent.
• Use creative strategies to identify and engage high-quality candidates across technical and operational roles.
• Ensure an outstanding candidate experience at every touchpoint.
• Work with founders and hiring managers to scale recruiting systems, tools, and interview processes.

Operations & Office Management

• Serve as the point person for all things office-related, coordinating day-to-day logistics at our co-working space (FORA).
• Own office management tasks, from supplies and space setup to facilitating team off-sites or internal events.
• Support broader business operations across HR, onboarding, and internal coordination.

Administrative Support

• Act as a trusted partner to the founder, handling administrative tasks, scheduling, and confidential projects.
• Maintain strict confidentiality and professionalism in dealing with sensitive information and decisions.
• Ensure the founder’s day-to-day operations are smooth and efficient

Essential requirements

• 🇬🇧 Lives in the UK with a right-to-work. Ideally it's easy to get to our London-based office.
• 🤓 Some experience as in recruiting, talent acquisition or office management preferably in a fast-paced environment
• 🤖 Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities

Desirable traits

• 🥷 Startup experience: you've seen first-hand that these are high-agency, high-ownership, high-intensity rides, and know you prefer this to something easier / less-impactful.
• 💻 Proficiency with Ashby ATS or Remote.com

You'll really do well here if you are:

• Entrepreneurial: creative, effective, resourceful & can wear multiple hats
• All-in: hard-working, excited to stretch yourself & willing to take out the trash.

Important to Know:

• Working location - Minimum 4 days a week in the London office (most people do 5).

What we offer:

• Work directly with the founding team
• Dinner: Free when working past 6 pm
• Holidays: 24 days plus bank holidays
• Salary: £35k-45k DoE
• Equity: Option grant on employee-friendly terms