Talent Partner

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 to see for yourself!)

Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh, a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $65M in funding from top angels, operators, and security leaders.

About the Role

We’re looking for a high-performing Talent Partner to help scale Socket’s next phase of growth! In this role, you'll be a force multiplier and play a critical role in landing top-tier engineering and sales talent, maintaining white glove experiences and serving as a trusted resource to all hiring teams you partner with. This is a high impact role where you’ll be a utility player moving fluidly between engineering, sales, and business roles, bringing above the bar people and processes to the table.

What You'll Do

• Own full-cycle recruiting across Engineering, Sales, and other functions, you could be sourcing a Staff Engineer or closing an Enterprise Account Executive in the same day

• Build trust and strong relationships with hiring teams, become the person they turn to first when thinking about team growth

• Proactively track and manage pipeline health and use data to spot problems early while optimizing what’s working

• Run a tight ship when it comes to hiring experiences and processes, you care deeply and treat candidates how you’d want to be treated

• Seek to understand trends and benchmarks to actively shape our talent strategy. You know how the talent landscape is changing and why

• Advocate for the right person at the right time, every time. You’re not afraid to say “no” and are more concerned about mutual fit than filling seats

What You'll Bring

• 4+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting, with time spent focused in both Engineering and Sales hiring

• 2+ years of experience scaling early teams at a start up previously

• Strong experience sourcing and building passive talent networks

• Ability to influence and find win-win solutions with your stakeholders

• Flexibility and comfort in the grey, you know that early stage startups bring a ton of change and require adaptability over perfection

• You’re highly organized, resourceful, and have a skill for solutioning problems as they arise

• Active listening is one of your superpowers, you can flex your approach based on the need

Interview Process

1. 30 minute “get-to-know-you” with Lauren, head of talent

2. 45 minute deeper dive around skills, growth areas, and synergy

3. Take home exercise & live review to assess sourcing skills, working style, and collaboration

4. (2) 30 minute interviews with our GTM hiring leaders who recruit the most, Amjed & Braden, and Doug.

5. 30 minutes with our Founder & CEO, Feross

6. References

7. Decision/Offer

As we know how important clarity is when looking for a new role, we've put together a read-me about the Interview Process at Socket, should you be invited for an interview.

1. Pursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.

2. Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.

3. 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.

4. Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.

5. 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.

6. Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.