Careers
About us
Icon is the first AI Admaker. Think ChatGPT + CapCut, but for making winning ads with AI in minutes.
We're backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund & execs of frontier AI labs like OpenAI, Pika, & Cognition.
Mission
Hyper-personalize all content.
Values
Please understand and agree with our values before applying:
- In-person working (New York City). No remote/hybrid.
- A-players only. Only A-players can hire A-players. We'd rather hire 1 A-player and pay an above-market amount (that someone is very happy with) than hire 3 B-players and pay market.
- Drive. You're hungry to do what it takes for us to win. You likely have a massive chip on the shoulder and/or a neurodivergent brain. Work is a key part of your identity / fulfillment in life.
- Grind. We work/text on weekends and at night. It's ok to send messages at 3am.
- Urgency. Do in a day what usually takes weeks. Run through walls to get things done. Respond in minutes (or seconds) instead of hours.
- Shameless. Be extremely annoying if it means winning. Check-in on things 10x daily. Double (or quadruple) text if someone hasn't responded. Call them too.
- Fast firing. If someone isn't an A player, we part ways quickly. Please be okay with this. We do paid trials to help derisk this.
- Mission-driven. "Hyper-personalize all content" as a mission sounds fun to you.
- Wear many hats. No job is not your job.
- EV-based decision making. No buying IBM because it's safe.
- Customer-first, not team-first. It's our job to make things move fast. We dropped the ball if a customer feels like we did.
- Flat company org. Titles reflect scope. No political promotion games.
Perks
- $1500/mo to live near NoMad office (15m walk or 10m subway).
- Free food (in-office).
Founding Engineer (product)
- Having product sense is great
- No product managers
- Next, GraphQL, Hasura, Postgres
- Technical founder, early stage eng experience is great
Founding Brand Growth (Account Executive)
- Uncapped commission
- GTM, AE, BDR, agency experience is great
Founding Research Engineer (generative video/audio)
- Apply (SOTA) models to make AI-generated video + audio perform better
- Technical founder, early stage eng experience is great
Founding Operations
- You're creative, hardworking, and a great communicator
- IB, consulting, ops, success, CX experience is great
Kennan Davison
CEO, Founder
Dropout at 19. Solo-founded Skio ($15M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates).
Dropout at 19. Solo-founded Skio ($15M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates), Pinterest, Hulu, Top 200 NA LoL, YC S20.
Previously: Pinterest, Hulu, W+K (ad agency), Top 200 NA League of Legends (100M+ players), YC S20 (solo), Columbia (transfer, dropout).
Kevin Jin
Engineering
Previously: CTO at Kalder, Compound Labs, Robinhood, Rippling, Impira, Flexport, Google, Tesla, TSM, Vanderbilt.
CTO at Kalder, Robinhood, Rippling, Impira, Flexport, Google, Tesla, TSM, Vanderbilt.
Max Sidebotham
Engineering
Previously: CTO, Co-founder at Tare (AI Emails / LLMs), Founding Engineer at Skio, Robinhood, UMD.
CTO, Co-founder at Tare (AI Emails / LLMs), Founding Engineer at Skio, Robinhood, UMD.
Kennan Davison
CEO, Founder
Dropout at 19. Solo-founded Skio ($15M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates).
Dropout at 19. Solo-founded Skio ($15M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates), Pinterest, Hulu, Top 200 NA LoL, YC S20.
Previously: Pinterest, Hulu, W+K (ad agency), Top 200 NA League of Legends (100M+ players), YC S20 (solo), Columbia (transfer, dropout).
Kevin Jin
Engineering
Previously: CTO at Kalder, Compound Labs, Robinhood, Rippling, Impira, Flexport, Google, Tesla, TSM, Vanderbilt.
CTO at Kalder, Robinhood, Rippling, Impira, Flexport, Google, Tesla, TSM, Vanderbilt.
Max Sidebotham
Engineering
Previously: CTO, Co-founder at Tare (AI Emails / LLMs), Founding Engineer at Skio, Robinhood, UMD.
CTO, Co-founder at Tare (AI Emails / LLMs), Founding Engineer at Skio, Robinhood, UMD.
Kennan Davison
CEO, Founder
Dropout at 19. Solo-founded Skio ($15M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates).
Dropout at 19. Solo-founded Skio ($15M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates), Pinterest, Hulu, Top 200 NA LoL, YC S20.
Previously: Pinterest, Hulu, W+K (ad agency), Top 200 NA League of Legends (100M+ players), YC S20 (solo), Columbia (transfer, dropout).
Kevin Jin
Engineering
Previously: CTO at Kalder, Compound Labs, Robinhood, Rippling, Impira, Flexport, Google, Tesla, TSM, Vanderbilt.
CTO at Kalder, Robinhood, Rippling, Impira, Flexport, Google, Tesla, TSM, Vanderbilt.
Max Sidebotham
Engineering
Previously: CTO, Co-founder at Tare (AI Emails / LLMs), Founding Engineer at Skio, Robinhood, UMD.
CTO, Co-founder at Tare (AI Emails / LLMs), Founding Engineer at Skio, Robinhood, UMD.
Founders Fund
Icon Investor
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm. The partners have founded & funded companies like PayPal, Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, Flexport, Airbnb, & Stripe.
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm.
Mark Chen
Icon Investor
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Previously: Jane Street, Microsoft, MIT.
Saquon Barkley
Icon Investor
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
Previously: New York Giants.
Roman Khan
Icon Investor
President, Founder at Peak21, CMO at Raycon, CMO at Know Beauty, CMO, Co-founder at Linjer, CMO at Nutrition Kitchen.
CMO at Raycon, Know Beauty, & Linjer.
Founders Fund
Icon Investor
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm. The partners have founded & funded companies like PayPal, Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, Flexport, Airbnb, & Stripe.
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm.
Mark Chen
Icon Investor
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Previously: Jane Street, Microsoft, MIT.
Saquon Barkley
Icon Investor
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
Previously: New York Giants.
Roman Khan
Icon Investor
President, Founder at Peak21, CMO at Raycon, CMO at Know Beauty, CMO, Co-founder at Linjer, CMO at Nutrition Kitchen.
CMO at Raycon, Know Beauty, & Linjer.
Founders Fund
Icon Investor
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm. The partners have founded & funded companies like PayPal, Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, Flexport, Airbnb, & Stripe.
Peter Thiel's venture capital firm.
Mark Chen
Icon Investor
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Chief Research Officer at OpenAI (ChatGPT).
Previously: Jane Street, Microsoft, MIT.
Saquon Barkley
Icon Investor
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
Previously: New York Giants.
Roman Khan
Icon Investor
President, Founder at Peak21, CMO at Raycon, CMO at Know Beauty, CMO, Co-founder at Linjer, CMO at Nutrition Kitchen.
CMO at Raycon, Know Beauty, & Linjer.
Story
Kennan Davison
CEO, Founder
Dropout at 19. Solo-founded Skio ($15M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates).
Dropout at 19. Solo-founded Skio ($15M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates).
Previously: Pinterest, Hulu, W+K (ad agency), Top 200 NA League of Legends (100M+ players), YC S20 (solo), Columbia (transfer, dropout).
Previously: Pinterest, Hulu, W+K (ad agency), Top 200 NA League of Legends (100M+ players), YC S20 (solo), Columbia (transfer, dropout).
Hi, I'm Kennan!
Thank you for reading this. My life has been a journey full of ups & downs & I’m grateful to be here.
I grew up finding school extremely boring & slept through most of my classes. If I'm being real, no one thought I'd go anywhere (was Top 200 North America out of 100M+ players in League of Legends though).
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