[Hiring] Talent Partner @Socket

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.

About the Role

We’re looking for a high-performing Talent Partner to help scale Socket’s next phase of growth! In this role, you’ll be a force multiplier and play a critical role in landing top-tier engineering and sales talent, maintaining white glove experiences and serving as a trusted resource to all hiring teams you partner with. This is a high impact role where you’ll be a utility player moving fluidly between engineering, sales, and business roles, bringing above the bar people and processes to the table.

What You’ll Do

• Own full-cycle recruiting across Engineering, Sales, and other functions, you could be sourcing a Staff Engineer or closing an Enterprise Account Executive in the same day
• Build trust and strong relationships with hiring teams, become the person they turn to first when thinking about team growth
• Proactively track and manage pipeline health and use data to spot problems early while optimizing what’s working
• Run a tight ship when it comes to hiring experiences and processes, you care deeply and treat candidates how you’d want to be treated
• Seek to understand trends and benchmarks to actively shape our talent strategy. You know how the talent landscape is changing and why
• Advocate for the right person at the right time, every time. You’re not afraid to say “no” and are more concerned about mutual fit than filling seats

What You’ll Bring

• 4+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting, with time spent focused in both Engineering and Sales hiring
• 2+ years of experience scaling early teams at a start up previously
• Strong experience sourcing and building passive talent networks
• Ability to influence and find win-win solutions with your stakeholders
• Flexibility and comfort in the grey, you know that early stage startups bring a ton of change and require adaptability over perfection
• You’re highly organized, resourceful, and have a skill for solutioning problems as they arise
• Active listening is one of your superpowers, you can flex your approach based on the need

Interview Process

1. 30 minute “get-to-know-you” with Lauren, head of talent
2. 45 minute deeper dive around skills, growth areas, and synergy
3. Take home exercise & live review to assess sourcing skills, working style, and collaboration
4. (2) 30 minute interviews with our GTM hiring leaders who recruit the most, Amjed & Braden, and Doug.
5. 30 minutes with our Founder & CEO, Feross
6. References
7. Decision/Offer

As we know how important clarity is when looking for a new role, we’ve put together a read-me about the Interview Process at Socket, should you be invited for an interview.

1. Pursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
2. Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
3. 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.
4. Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
5. 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.
6. Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.