Careers
About us
Icon (icon.com) is the AI Admaker. Backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Saquon Barkley (NFL), & execs of OpenAI (ChatGPT), Ramp, Flexport, Cognition, & Pika.
Mission
Make things go viral.
Values
Please understand and agree with our values before applying:
- In-person working (New York City). 7-day work week. 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. "Make things go viral" 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).
Kennan Davison
CEO, Founder
College dropout. Solo-founded Skio ($20M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates).
College dropout. Solo-founded Skio ($20M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates), Top 200 NA LoL, YC S20.
Top 200 NA League of Legends (100M+ players), YC S20 (solo), W+K (ad agency), Columbia (instant dropout).
Yunyu Lin
Founding Board Member
CEO, Co-founder at Penrose.
CEO, Co-founder at Penrose, Head of AI at Ramp, CEO at Cohere (acq. by Ramp), Nuro, Facebook, YC S20, Duke (dropout).
Head of AI at Ramp, CEO, Co-founder at Cohere (AI CX / LLMs, acquired by Ramp), Nuro, Facebook, YC S20, Duke (dropout).
Kevin Jin
Engineering
CTO at Kalder, Compound Labs, Robinhood, Rippling, Impira, Flexport, Google, Tesla, TSM, Vanderbilt.
CTO at Kalder, Robinhood, Rippling, Impira, Flexport, Google, Tesla, TSM, Vanderbilt.
Ernest Wong
Engineering
Machine Learning Engineer at xAI, Databricks, Bloomberg, Waterloo (dropout).
Machine Learning Engineer at xAI, Databricks, Bloomberg, Waterloo (dropout).
Kennan Davison
CEO, Founder
College dropout. Solo-founded Skio ($20M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates).
College dropout. Solo-founded Skio ($20M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates), Top 200 NA LoL, YC S20.
Top 200 NA League of Legends (100M+ players), YC S20 (solo), W+K (ad agency), Columbia (instant dropout).
Yunyu Lin
Founding Board Member
CEO, Co-founder at Penrose.
CEO, Co-founder at Penrose, Head of AI at Ramp, CEO at Cohere (acq. by Ramp), Nuro, Facebook, YC S20, Duke (dropout).
Head of AI at Ramp, CEO, Co-founder at Cohere (AI CX / LLMs, acquired by Ramp), Nuro, Facebook, YC S20, Duke (dropout).
Kevin Jin
Engineering
CTO at Kalder, Compound Labs, Robinhood, Rippling, Impira, Flexport, Google, Tesla, TSM, Vanderbilt.
CTO at Kalder, Robinhood, Rippling, Impira, Flexport, Google, Tesla, TSM, Vanderbilt.
Ernest Wong
Engineering
Machine Learning Engineer at xAI, Databricks, Bloomberg, Waterloo (dropout).
Machine Learning Engineer at xAI, Databricks, Bloomberg, Waterloo (dropout).
Kennan Davison
CEO, Founder
College dropout. Solo-founded Skio ($20M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates).
College dropout. Solo-founded Skio ($20M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates), Top 200 NA LoL, YC S20.
Top 200 NA League of Legends (100M+ players), YC S20 (solo), W+K (ad agency), Columbia (instant dropout).
Yunyu Lin
Founding Board Member
CEO, Co-founder at Penrose.
CEO, Co-founder at Penrose, Head of AI at Ramp, CEO at Cohere (acq. by Ramp), Nuro, Facebook, YC S20, Duke (dropout).
Head of AI at Ramp, CEO, Co-founder at Cohere (AI CX / LLMs, acquired by Ramp), Nuro, Facebook, YC S20, Duke (dropout).
Kevin Jin
Engineering
CTO at Kalder, Compound Labs, Robinhood, Rippling, Impira, Flexport, Google, Tesla, TSM, Vanderbilt.
CTO at Kalder, Robinhood, Rippling, Impira, Flexport, Google, Tesla, TSM, Vanderbilt.
Ernest Wong
Engineering
Machine Learning Engineer at xAI, Databricks, Bloomberg, Waterloo (dropout).
Machine Learning Engineer at xAI, Databricks, Bloomberg, Waterloo (dropout).
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).
Jane Street, Microsoft, MIT.
Saquon Barkley
Icon Investor
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
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).
Jane Street, Microsoft, MIT.
Saquon Barkley
Icon Investor
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
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).
Jane Street, Microsoft, MIT.
Saquon Barkley
Icon Investor
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
NFL Running Back Philadelphia Eagles (Super Bowl 2025).
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
College dropout. Solo-founded Skio ($20M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates).
College dropout. Solo-founded Skio ($20M+ ARR & profitable, $8M seed, 50+ teammates).
Top 200 NA League of Legends (100M+ players), YC S20 (solo), W+K (ad agency), Columbia (instant dropout).
Top 200 NA League of Legends (100M+ players), YC S20 (solo), W+K (ad agency), Columbia (instant 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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