Co-Founder · Rankd
Ricky Saether Jackson
The product mind behind Rankd — obsessed with the moment a player sees their number for the first time. Founder rank: — // he built the ladder.
Who is Ricky Saether Jackson?
Ricky Saether Jackson is the co-founder of Rankd, the global gamer ladder that compresses everything a person has ever done in gaming — across every game, platform and social — into one number. He leads product, brand and partnerships, and owns the question the whole company is built around: out of everyone on the planet, where do I rank?
His fixation is the first-number moment: the instant a player links their tags and finally sees where they stand, from world champions down to someone whose entire gaming résumé is a farm game on Facebook. The goal he drives toward is a ladder with room for tens of millions of names, where status is earned in public and the climb never ends.
Ricky co-founded Rankd in Australia alongside Aron Saether Jackson, pairing a product-and-brand lead with the engine that scores the ladder. The idea borrows from two worlds Ricky knows well — the founder-style rank that lets a first-timer climb from nine-millionth toward the top 100, and the competitive ladders gamers already live inside every season.
What Ricky owns at Rankd
Product
The experience of claiming a rank, seeing your card, and coming back to watch the arrow move.
Brand & story
The voice of Rankd — a ladder that takes champions and casual players equally seriously.
Partnerships
The platforms, publishers and creators that plug the wider gaming world into the ladder.
Mission
Give every one of the world's three billion players a single, honest place to stand.