Socket
Product Design Lead
AMER
Sponsorship not specified$48k-$70kDetected 229 days ago
SwiftRESTFigmaDesign SystemsSupply ChainFirewallLeadership
About the role
- A Letter From our Founder & CEO: The world now runs on open source.
- Every company, every product, every device you touch depends on code written by strangers on the internet.
- This is one of humanity's greatest achievements, but it's also one of its greatest vulnerabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead design as strategy, your design decisions will directly influence how developers understand and interact with supply chain security.
- You'll think in systems, define design primitives that scale across our platform, and obsess over the details that separate good products from great ones.
- Partner with leadership, your voice will be essential in shaping what we build, how we prioritize, and how we communicate the value of Socket to the world.
- Design end-to-end experiences across Socket's product portfolio that make complex security concepts feel approachable and actionable for developers.
- Work with the engineering team to develop interfaces that abstract away complexity while preserving the rigor and precision security demands.
- Establish and evolve Socket's design system, creating patterns and components that let us move fast without compromising on craft or consistency.
- Help define the roadmap and prioritize design opportunities that will have the most impact on adoption and user success.
- Portfolio that demonstrates systems thinking: how you've defined design languages, built component systems, and maintained consistency across complex products.
- That requires world-class engineering, but it also requires world-class design.
Nice to have
- Comfort working directly with engineering and product leadership, able to move fast and make decisions without excessive process.
- Experience designing security or infrastructure tools is a plus, but not required, what matters is your ability to take complexity and make it clear.
- You care about craft.
- The details matter to you, not because they're decorative but because they're functional.
- You understand that every pixel, every interaction, every word choice shapes how someone experiences a product.
Compensation
- Market competitive salary bands
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.
- 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
Company info
- 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.
- A Letter From our Founder & CEO: The world now runs on open source. Every company, every product, every device you touch depends on code written by strangers on the internet. This is one of humanity's greatest achievements, but it's also one of its greatest vulnerabilities. When the software supply chain breaks, the world breaks with it.
- Our job at Socket is simple to describe and incredibly hard to execute: protect the software that powers everything.
- 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!)
- When the software supply chain breaks, the world breaks with it.
- Security tools are infamous for blinking lights, noisy dashboards, and walls of alerts that no human can keep up with.
- Developers don't need more noise.
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