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.

marissaren x glowrecipe

2.4M followers

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.

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Perks

$1500/mo to live near NoMad office (15m walk or 10m subway).
Free food (in-office).

marissaren x glowrecipe

2.4M followers

reillyopelka x drinkpoppi

450K followers

Founding Engineer (product)

Having product sense is great
No product managers
Next, GraphQL, Hasura, Postgres
Technical founder, early stage eng experience is great

Software Engineer Intern (product)

Any quarter/semester works

Founding Product Designer

Own design

Founding Brand Growth (Account Executive)

Uncapped commission
GTM, AE, BDR, agency experience is great

Founding Creator Growth (Talent Manager)

Talent manager, creator 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

Research Engineer Intern (generative video/audio)

Any quarter/semester works

Founding Operations

You're creative, hardworking, and a great communicator
IB, consulting, ops, success, CX experience is great

Founding Agency Partnerships

Uncapped commission
Agency partnerships, agency experience is great

Founding Tech Partnerships

Uncapped commission
Tech partnerships, agency experience is great

Anything

Team

Kennan Davison

CEO, Founder

Dropout at 19. Solo-founded Skio ($15M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed).

Dropout at 19. Solo-founded Skio ($15M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed), Pinterest, Hulu, Top 200 NA LoL, YC S20.

Previously: Pinterest, Hulu, W+K (ad agency), Top 200 North America League of Legends (out of 10M+ people), Y Combinator S20 (solo founder), Columbia (transfer, dropout).

Yunyu Lin

Founding Board Member

Head of AI at Ramp.

Head of AI at Ramp, CEO at Cohere (acq. by Ramp), Nuro, Facebook, YC S20, Duke (dropout).

Previously: CEO, Co-founder at Cohere (AI CX / LLMs, acquired by Ramp), Nuro, Facebook, YC S20, Duke (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.