About the role
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 $65M in funding 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. That requires world-class engineering, but it also requires world-class design. 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. They need clarity. They need tools that help them see the truth instantly so they can act with confidence. This is where design becomes a strategic weapon. Great design in security isn't ornamental. It's leverage. It's how we reduce cognitive load, cut through chaos, and make the complex feel intuitive. It's how we give millions of developers a sense of control in an environment that often feels unknowable. It's how we move the entire industry forward. Socket now has five products that all share the same purpose but solve different layers of the supply chain problem: Socket Open Source, Socket Firewall, Socket Certified Patches, Socket Basics, and Extension Guard. Your role is to bring coherence, clarity, and vision to the platform as a whole. You'll work directly with the CEO (Feross), with our engineering team, with our sales and marketing teams, and with our customers who rely on Socket to secure mission-critical systems. Your fingerprints will be on everything we ship. This isn't a supportive design function. It's a core leadership role shaping how developers experience the future of supply chain security. Some of the most design-driven teams in the world use Socket — Vercel, OpenAI, Figma, Replit, and others. These teams care about clarity, craft, and speed, and they expect tools that meet their standards. Your work will be in front of people who notice the details, which pushes all of us to raise the bar. It's one of the most energizing parts of this role. We're looking for someone who sweats the details, thinks in systems, obsesses about clarity, and understands that design is as much about how things work as how they look. Someone who can help us define the primitives, patterns, and interactions that let developers move fast without compromising safety. Someone who wants to build a standard the rest of the industry follows. This is a rare opportunity to design a product that protects the global software ecosystem. The work you do here will directly influence how the world builds and ships code. If you care about craft, if you care about impact, and if you want your design work to matter on a massive scale, then you'll thrive here. Let's build the future of secure software together.