Product Design Lead

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 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 $125M in funding from top angels, operators, and security leaders.

What You'll Do

• Shape the entire platform, ensuring that whether a developer is using Socket Open Source, the Firewall, Certified Patches, or any of our other products, they experience clarity and craft.
• Lead design as strategy, your design decisions will directly influence how developers understand and interact with supply chain security.
• 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.
• Shape the visual and interaction language that developers associate with Socket, establishing a standard others follow.
• Participate in customer conversations to understand how developers actually use our products and where clarity breaks down.
• Help define the roadmap and prioritize design opportunities that will have the most impact on adoption and user success.
• Be part of hiring and building a world-class design team as we grow.

What You'll Bring

• You've shipped products at a high bar and understand the difference between surface-level polish and systems-level clarity.
• Deep experience designing for developers or technical audiences, you understand the contexts where clarity really matters.
• Portfolio that demonstrates systems thinking: how you've defined design languages, built component systems, and maintained consistency across complex products.
• Comfort working directly with engineering and product leadership, able to move fast and make decisions without excessive process.
• 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.

Benefits

• Market competitive salary bands
• Meaningful equity program
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family (99% coverage)
• Paid parental leave
• Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites

Pursue Excellence

• We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
• Moves 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.