Head of Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Formulate the product strategy for Socket’s entire portfolio

• Align customer requirements, market potential, and technical capabilities with prioritized objectives

• Participate in customer calls to gain insights from support and sales discussions

• Collaborate with Engineering to transform intricate security challenges into user-friendly, technically robust products

• Establish product requirements and define success metrics

• Navigate technical trade-offs and empower engineers to make implementation decisions

• Balance commitments to customers, address support escalations, ensure reliability, pursue new opportunities, and consider engineering capacity

• Take ownership of customer outcomes, validate assumptions, and assess success using adoption metrics and customer feedback

• Collaborate with Sales on product positioning, demonstrations, and launches

• Organize and communicate product initiatives, priorities, decisions, and roadmaps

• Develop and enhance the product function, including hiring, collaboration, and team growth

• Work closely with Feross and the leadership team while partnering with Engineering, Sales, Customer Engineering, and Threat Intelligence

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven senior product leadership experience, demonstrating a successful history of guiding complex products from strategy through launch and learning from outcomes

• Experience in creating products for developers, security teams, or other technical users, preferably in the fields of security, infrastructure, or B2B software

• Technical proficiency, including the ability to assess architectural and implementation trade-offs

• Strong product judgment with the capacity to make informed decisions despite incomplete information

• Comprehension of how customer value translates into business outcomes

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Proactive approach to establishing structure and executing swiftly

• Preferred: Background in software supply chain security, application security, vulnerability management, or developer tools

• Preferred: Experience in building a product function at an early-stage company while consistently delivering

🏝️ Benefits

• Meaningful equity program

• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family (99% coverage)

• Flexible time-off, holidays, and a winter shutdown to allow for rest and rejuvenation

• Paid parental leave

• Remote-first work arrangement

• Quarterly team off-sites

• Market competitive salary bands