Engineering Manager, Kernel AI
£140-200k
+ Offers Equity
More information about location
4-5 days a week in office
RevOps Agents for the world's best GTM teams
Posted today
RevOps Agents for the world's best GTM teams
21-100 employees
Posted today
£140-200k
+ Offers Equity
More information about location
4-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable revenue teams to research companies as if they had unlimited time.
Role
Who you are
- You have extensive experience in architecting enterprise-level systems, delivering on ambitious product visions, and building world class engineering teams
- You have worked at high-growth businesses, and might have previously started your own company
- You are highly analytical, and thinking proactively through the implications of your decisions, but also have high conviction and understand the importance of moving at pace and shipping often
- You have previously led engineering at a company from its earliest stages, and don’t shy away from the manager role - you know what great looks like, and want to help engineers grow
- 8+ years software engineering experience, with 2+ years leading engineering teams
- Track record of hiring and developing strong engineers
- Strong production systems background - you've built and scaled things that matter, and you’ve done something hard and lived to tell the tale
- Proven experience in distributed systems
- Experience operating autonomously in small, high-velocity environments - ideally in a startup
Desirable
- Scaled an engineering team through a growth phase (5 → 20+ engineers), or from Series A to Series C
- Technical depth across the stack: NodeJS, Postgres, TypeScript, Kubernetes AI-driven or data-heavy product experience
- Understanding of LLMs (e.g., RAG, prompt engineering, evals)
- CRM data models or workflow automation knowledge
What the job involves
- You'll be a player-coach engineering leader with a spike in technical strategy, working closely with the founders to drive the hiring roadmap
- You'll own engineering delivery end-to-end - from developing exceptional engineers to setting technical direction - while helping the company grow from $3M to $30M ARR
- This is a hands-on leadership role
- You'll spend roughly 30% of your time contributing code and 70% leading the team, with that ratio shifting as we scale
- Build, hire, and develop a high-performing engineering team
- Help set technical direction and architecture decisions
- Own engineering delivery with an emphasis on velocity
- Collaborate closely with Product on roadmap and prioritization
- Write code when needed so you'll stay close to the product
- We are in the unique situation that our commercial traction is ahead of our product. You’ll play a leading role in moving towards automation in a way that enables us to rapidly scale with increased complexity and specific customer nuances
- We are around 30 people with 7 engineers and 1 Product Manager, including:
- Sam Houghton, Founding Engineer
- Eleanor Leung, Senior Engineer
- David Saltares, Senior Engineer
- Stefan Sabev, Head of Product
- Tom Ankers, Senior Engineer
- Willis Chou, Senior Engineer
Application process
- Stage 1: 30-minute introductory call covering your professional background and what you're looking for
- Stage 2: 30-minute call with Marcus (Hiring manager) on ways of working
- Stage 3: Technical deep-dive (60 mins) exploring your architectural thinking and past technical decisions
- Stage 4: Leadership scenario interview (60 mins) in our London office - we'll discuss real challenges you'd face here
- Final Stage: Founders interview with the co-founders, Anders and Marcus, on values alignment and vision
- Upon mutual fit: references and offer stage
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Company revenue and sales teams spend considerable time manually researching potential leads and customers, ascertaining if these potential clients are suffering from the problem their product is solving. Trawling through lead job descriptions and non-public financial data is a lengthy process, especially if you’re trying to infer information from them. Kernel.AI, formerly known as Momentum AI, saves revenue and sales team time with its fleet of AI Agents.
Kernel’s AI agents can be synced to Salesforce accounts to automate research into potential leads. The software maximises revenue and saves teams insurmountable time by building lists of potential customers. Growing enterprises such as GoCardless and FlatPay use Kernel to speed up their lead list.
The AI sales agents market was valued at $5.1 billion in 2024. By 2030, it’s expected to grow to $47.1 billion, indicating a lucrative space for Kernel. Launched by a founder who has already successfully launched two companies, Kernel shows plenty of promise as it builds itself up from 2023 seed funding.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2025
$9m
Series A
Dec 2023
$5m
Seed
Total funding: $14m
Company benefits
- Working directly with the founding team
- Dinner: Free when working past 6 pm
- Holidays: 24 days plus bank holidays
- Equity: Meaningful, option grant on employee-friendly terms
- Ability to work abroad for 2-weeks a year + flexibility during the working week for appointments (or anything else)
- Regular team, office, and company-wide celebrations
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Company provided MacBook
Company values
- Unreasonably Customer-focused
- Silly Ambitious
- Transparent by Default
Company HQ
Borough High St London
Leadership
Anders Krohn
(Founder)Also a Member of RevGenius. Previously CEO for and Co-Founder of Aula Education and was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Ublend.
Marcus Henglein
(Co-Founder)Previously a co-founder and Advisor at projectaccess.co. Prior to that, they worked in Light Reconnaissance for Forsvaret and in Consulting at The Boston Consulting Group.
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