Socket

Socket

Channel & Partners Lead

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Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 35 days ago
SwiftRESTFigmaBusiness DevelopmentSupply ChainPerformance ManagementLeadership

About the role

  • As Socket's first dedicated Channel & Partnerships hire, you'll build our partner ecosystem from the ground up and establish strategic relationships that amplify our reach in the CISO and AppSec space.
  • You'll help security teams and organizations discover Socket through trusted partners while creating scalable revenue channels that complement our direct sales efforts.
  • This is a high-ownership role where you'll work directly with Socket's leadership team to drive mutual success for Socket, our partners, and our customers.

Responsibilities

  • Manage Strategic Security Partner Relationships: Build and lead Socket's alliances with key security consulting firms, system integrators, and technology vendors.
  • Create long-term value through strong executive engagement and multi-level stakeholder relationships.
  • Build and Launch Channel Sales Motions: Create joint go-to-market strategies that capitalize on supply chain security trends, partner strengths, and market opportunities within security ecosystems to accelerate revenue growth.
  • Cultivate Executive-Level Partnerships: Establish and maintain trusted C-level relationships between Socket and security ecosystem partners, serving as a strategic liaison and business connector.
  • Drive Sales & Partner Enablement: Orchestrate internal training and partner field support, ensuring Socket's sales teams and partner organizations understand how to position and sell joint security solutions effectively.
  • Execute Co-Marketing & Pipeline Generation: Partner with marketing teams to deliver high-impact co-branded initiatives, security events, and content strategies that build pipeline and enhance market presence.
  • Conduct Partnership Performance Reviews: Run comprehensive business reviews with partners to assess progress, analyze key metrics, and identify data-driven opportunities for growth and optimization.
  • Experienced dealmaker with demonstrated success in end-to-end partner negotiations, including agreements, service level commitments, and revenue structures.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in Channel Sales, Partnership Management, or Business Development, with strong preference for security, AppSec, or enterprise software backgrounds selling into CISO and security organizations.

Compensation

  • Create & Execute Partnership Strategies: Build and implement annual partner plans with specific revenue targets, key milestones, and success metrics. Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure partnerships deliver measurable business impact.
  • 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
  • Strategic mindset with the ability to translate partnership vision into revenue execution while being hands-on with deal closure and partner success initiatives.

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.
  • 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!)
  • We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
  • We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
  • Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.

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