Socket · 1 month ago
Product Design Lead
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/StaffSocket is a company that helps developers and security teams streamline their work by minimizing security busywork. The Product Design Lead will be responsible for shaping the platform's vision, ensuring clarity and coherence across various products, and leading design strategies that enhance developer interactions with supply chain security.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityDeveloper ToolsInternetOpen SourceSecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Shape the entire platform, your work will create the coherent vision that ties everything together, 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. 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
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Experience designing security or infrastructure tools is a plus, but not required, what matters is your ability to take complexity and make it clear
Company
Socket
Socket is a developer-first security platform that protects your most critical apps from software supply chain attacks.
Founded in 2020
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Socket has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2024 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$64.6MKey Investors
AbstractAndreessen Horowitz
2024-10-22Series B· $40M
2023-08-01Series A· $20M
2022-05-11Seed· $4.6M
Leadership Team
Feross Aboukhadijeh
Founder & CEO
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