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title: 'Sr. People Partner, Technology at Socket'
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# Sr. People Partner, Technology at Socket

- **Company:** Socket
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $140k–$190k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/socket/5d1438fa-f9b4-46c3-8975-bb328d7b855b

## 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 Socket’s first People Partner dedicated to our Technology teams! We’re scaling quickly: People are taking on new mandates, scope is expanding, and managers are facing new territory. We need someone who can influence without hiding behind policy, support managers without taking over, and introduce structure only when it makes the company faster and more effective. The work moves between long-range organization questions and immediate human ones. In the same week, you might help a leader evolve how their team operates, coach a new manager through an important conversation, or improve how we run performance reviews, compensation, or onboarding. In each case, you’ll spot patterns, clarify tradeoffs, and turn discussion into decisions and follow-through. Because this is the first dedicated People Partner at Socket, you’ll have room to shape how People partnership works here.

## What You’ll Do

- Partner directly with Technology leaders on team design, structure, capacity, headcount, and the talent decisions behind our priorities.
- Help leaders make clearer, more consistent calls on roles, levels, compensation, succession, and internal movement.
- Coach managers to set expectations, give useful feedback, address performance, navigate conflict, and lead effectively as their scope grows.
- Own employee relation issues from first signal through resolution, bringing the right balance of care, rigor, documentation, and pace.
- Lead talent and performance cycles that produce decisions and action, not just meetings, ratings, or completed forms.
- Work with Talent to improve role design, leveling, and how we evaluate candidates for technical positions.
- Use data and day-to-day signals to float retention concerns, gaps, and recurring friction early.
- Build practical fixes with People Ops, Legal, and Finance when a process is unclear, inconsistent, or no longer fits the company’s stage.

What Good Looks Like

- By day 30: You understand how the Technology organization works, its leaders, teams, priorities, critical roles, and decisions in motion. You have a clear cadence with the people you support. Every active performance or employee issue has an owner, a next step, and a decision framework.
- By day 60: Leaders bring you into team and talent decisions early enough to shape the outcome. You’ve surfaced the most important leadership, team, and talent risks, gave creative and sound recommendations, and found a simple cadence for leader check-ins and follow-through.
- By day 90: Managers are raising issues earlier, changes are better framed, and routine People work defaults to you; leaders see you as direct, useful, and grounded in the business. You've made significant contributions to evolving our People roadmap, insights, and tech stack.

What You’ll Bring:

- 7+ years as a People Partner for technical teams with hands-on depth across employee relations, performance, compensation, leveling, succession, retention, and change.
- Strong judgment in complex & uncharted situations, including when to involve Legal or specialized expertise.
- 2+ years of experience supporting distributed, multi-country teams.
- A builder’s mindset: you create practical structure, communicate clearly, and keep the company moving through ambiguity.
- Curiosity and active investment in AI, data, and better tools, with good judgment about where automation helps and where people remain accountable.
- Strong familiarity with technical career pathing, levels, and compensation models.
- Experience building or improving People systems in a scaling company.

The Interview Process:

- Meet with [Lauren](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-valencia-34911a61/), Head of People & Talent
- Meet with [Cami](https://www.linkedin.com/in/camilla-lacayo/), Sr. Talent Partner
- Take home & 30, 60, 90 style presentation
- Meet with [James](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescookesquire/), General Counsel
- Meet with [Jay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaykeswani/), VP of Strategy & Operations
- References
- Offer/Decision

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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