Head of Product

The role

The Head of Product will define product strategy and build the product function to support growth. You will partner with engineering, sales, and customer engineering to turn customer needs into products.

What you will do

• Set product strategy across Socket's portfolio.
• Join customer calls to understand problems behind feature requests.
• Partner with Engineering to define requirements and success metrics.
• Make explicit prioritization decisions balancing commitments and capacity.
• Define customer impact and use adoption data to inform next steps.
• Partner with Sales on positioning, demos, and launches.
• Build a practical way to plan and communicate product work.
• Grow the product function over time.

Required qualifications

• Senior product leadership experience.
• Experience building for developers, security teams, or other technical users.
• Technical fluency.
• Strong product judgment.
• An understanding of how customer value translates into business results.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• A hands-on approach.

Nice to have

• 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.

Benefits

• Market competitive salary bands
• Meaningful equity program
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family (99% coverage)
• Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown
• Paid parental leave

About the company

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.