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title: 'Head of Product at Socket'
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# Head of Product at Socket

- **Company:** Socket
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/socket/02c4af15-7ff5-4a4a-a961-cb1a557fb80a

## Job description

## 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-b)[125M 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 assumptions we need to validate, and how we’ll measure success. Use adoption data and customer feedback to inform what we do next.
- Partner with Sales on positioning, demos, and launches that clearly communicate what we’re building, who it’s for, and why it matters.
- Build a practical way to plan and communicate product work. Keep priorities, decisions, and roadmaps clear, and help customer-facing teams distinguish commitments from ideas we’re still exploring.
- Grow the product function over time. Help shape how we hire, collaborate, and develop the team while staying close to the work.

## What You'll Bring

- Senior product leadership experience, with a track record of taking complex products from strategy through launch and learning from the results.
- Experience building for developers, security teams, or other technical users, ideally in security, infrastructure, or B2B software.
- Technical fluency. You can work through architecture and implementation trade-offs, ask good questions, and earn the trust of engineers.
- Strong product judgment. You can separate important problems from competing requests, set boundaries, and make decisions with incomplete information.
- An understanding of how customer value translates into business results. You know how technical products are evaluated, adopted, and expanded within an organization.
- Clear written and verbal communication. You can explain 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-philosophy)and 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.

## About Socket

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Socket is a developer-first cybersecurity platform that proactively detects and blocks malicious packages in real time to prevent software supply chain attacks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Feross Aboukhadijeh

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Cybersecurity, software supply chain security, open source risk management.
- Target customers: B2B, serving developers and security teams across technology, media, healthcare, finance, and other industries; suitable for enterprises and SMBs alike.
- Mission or purpose: To improve the security of the internet by helping developers ship faster and safely find, audit, and manage open source software at scale.

## Products & Services
- **[Socket for GitHub](https://socket.dev)**: A GitHub app that scans pull requests for risky dependency additions and malicious updates before they merge. Detects malware, typosquats, HTTP dependencies, and more. (SaaS/integration)
- **[Socket Firewall](https://socket.dev)**: A command-line tool that blocks malicious packages at install time (e.g., `$ sfw npm install`). Provides real-time scanning and protection during package installation. (CLI/agent)
- **[Dependency Search](https://socket.dev)**: A search engine providing security insights, quality scores, maintenance ratings, vulnerability checks, and license info for millions of open source packages across npm, PyPI, and other registries. (Web tool/API)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Over 300,000 organizations protected; 11.6M+ code repositories protected; detects over 100 zero-day attacks every week.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by top-tier venture firms and industry leaders including Abstract Ventures, Elad Gil, Patrick Collinson, Zane Lackey (Ex-CEO of Signal Sciences), Haroon Meer (Thinkst), and others.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid adoption with 85+ (and growing) orgs explicitly shown; active hiring across 22+ roles; expanding product to keep pace with AI-generated code risks.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proactive, behavioral detection**: Unlike traditional security tools that rely on known vulnerability databases, Socket analyzes the actual behavior of packages to catch zero-day and novel threats before they cause harm.
- **Developer-first workflow**: Integrates seamlessly into existing Git and CLI workflows (GitHub PRs, npm install) without disrupting developer velocity.
- **Broad registry coverage**: Scans packages across npm, PyPI, and other major open source ecosystems, covering the 90% of modern codebases that come from open source.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening protection against AI-generated and rapidly changing open source dependencies.
- Expanding detection capabilities to cover more registries and attack patterns.
- Scaling the platform to serve both large enterprises and individual developers, with a continued emphasis on real-time, low-friction security.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Principles of learning, collaboration, transparency, experimentation, and passion. Team moves with urgency and trust, and is customer and feedback obsessed.
- **Remote work**: Remote-first with core hours overlap; HQ office in San Francisco available but not required.
- **Benefits**: Excellent health/dental/vision insurance (largely covered for you and dependents); unlimited time off; stock options; quarterly team offsites in beautiful locations; market-competitive salary benchmarking.
- **Engineering culture**: Open source pedigree with founder Feross Aboukhadijeh (Node.js Foundation board, Stanford lecturer). Strong focus on shipping fast, secure software.

## Sources
1. [socket.dev](https://socket.dev)
2. [socket.dev/about](https://socket.dev/about)
3. [socket.dev/careers](https://socket.dev/careers)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/socket-0)

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