Head of Product

The posting, as Socket wrote it

About Us

Socket helps devs and security teams ship faster by cutting out security busywork. Thousands of orgs use Socket to safely find, audit, and manage open source code. Our customers - from Anthropic to xAI, and Figma to Vercel - love Socket (just check out their tweets https://socket.dev/love to see for yourself!)

Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh https://www.linkedin.com/in/feross/, a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $ https://socket.dev/blog/series-b125M in funding https://socket.dev/blog/series-c from top angels, operators, and security leaders.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re hiring a Head of Product to define where Socket goes next and build the product function to support our next stage of growth. We’ve built a platform with strong product-market pull, a rapidly growing customer base, and a lot of room to grow. You’ll set the product strategy, bring our growing portfolio together into a cohesive platform, and help define what software supply chain security looks like as AI changes how software gets built.

You’ll work directly with Feross and the leadership team, and have real influence over what we build, where we invest, and how we grow. Partnering closely with Engineering, Sales, Customer Engineering, and Threat Intelligence, you’ll turn customer needs and market opportunities into clear product direction and products that ship. You’ll stay close to customers, understand where the biggest problems are, and help us focus on the opportunities that will have the greatest impact. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll shape both the big picture and the decisions that bring it to life.

You’ll also build the product function itself: establishing how we prioritize across our portfolio, make tradeoffs, measure success, and communicate our roadmap. You’ll create the practices and team that allow us to move quickly without losing focus, bringing clarity to what we’re building, why it matters, and how each product fits into the bigger picture.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Set product strategy across Socket’s portfolio. Connect customer needs, market opportunities, and our technical strengths to a focused set of priorities.
• Get close to customer problems. Join customer calls, learn from support and sales conversations, and understand what’s behind a feature request before deciding how to solve it.
• Partner with Engineering to turn complex security challenges into intuitive, technically sound products. Define clear requirements and success metrics, help navigate technical trade-offs, and give engineers the ownership to determine how we build.
• Make prioritization decisions explicit. Balance customer commitments, support escalations, reliability, and new opportunities against engineering capacity. Be clear about product boundaries and what a new priority displaces.
• Own outcomes, not just launches. Define the customer impact we’re aiming for, the assum

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xplain complex problems simply, document the reasoning behind a decision, and help teams understand what we’re doing and why.

• A hands-on approach. You’re comfortable building where there’s no established playbook, creating structure where it helps, and moving quickly without losing sight of the details.
• Preferred
• Experience with software supply chain security, application security, vulnerability management, or developer tooling.
• Experience building a product function at an early-stage company while continuing to ship.

Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy https://socket.dev/hiring-philosophyand how we approach the process at Socket.

Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:

• Market competitive salary bands
• Meaningful equity program
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family (99% coverage)
• Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge
• Paid parental leave
• Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites

At Socket, we

• Pursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
• Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
• Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
• Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
• Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
• Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.