Technical Success Manager

Technical Success Manager 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 https://socket.dev/love to see for yourself!) Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh https://www.linkedin.com/in/feross/, a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $65M in funding https://socket.dev/blog/series-b from top angels, operators, and security leaders. About the Role You'll own customer success post-sale. That means understanding how each customer wants to use Socket, helping them get there, and solving problems when things break. This is a product-focused, technical role. You'll spend your time learning customer environments, asking the right questions to uncover blockers, and translating product capabilities into solutions. You're also the front line for technical support. We don't have a separate support team. When something doesn't work as expected, you investigate. AEs own renewals and expansion. You own making the customer successful with the product. What You'll Do Onboarding & Implementation - Lead technical onboarding for new enterprise customers, from initial setup through full integration - Work with engineering teams to configure Socket across CI/CD systems, build pipelines, IDEs, and internal tooling - Build repeatable onboarding playbooks, scripts, and automations that reduce time-to-value Technical Support & Troubleshooting - Investigate and resolve integration, configuration, and compatibility issues - Respond to customer issues in dedicated Slack channels (you're on-call for these) - Use logs and telemetry to identify root causes and document fixes - Escalate to Engineering when needed and follow through to resolution Product Enablement - Run discovery conversations to understand customer goals and use cases - Translate complex product capabilities into practical, developer-friendly guidance - Conduct architecture reviews and security posture assessments - Deliver workshops, office hours, and deep-dives that drive adoption Customer Advocacy - Bring technical feedback and field intelligence back to Product and Engineering - Surface patterns that inform roadmap priorities - Contribute documentation and internal tooling to scale the Technical Success practice What You'll Bring - 3+ years in a technical customer-facing role (Solutions Engineer, Technical Account Manager, Support Engineer, or similar) - Experience with developer tooling and CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.) - Ability to read and reason about code (JavaScript, Python, TypeScript) - Familiarity with APIs, webhooks, and SaaS integration patterns - Hands-on experience with Package Managers - Comfort troubleshooting in production environments alongside engineering teams - Clear written and verbal communication with developers, security practitioners, and executives - Willingness to travel for customer and company meetings as needed Nice to Have - Background in application security, DevSecOps, or open-source ecosystems - Experience with SCA, dependency management, or security scanning tools - Contributions to open-source projects Tools You'll Use Slack, GitHub, Zendesk, Vitally, HubSpot, Grafana Our Interview Process 1. Informational call with someone from our Talent team 2. Virtual f2f with our Head of Customer Engineering 3. Presentation 4. Final interview with our Founder & CEO 5. References 6. Decision We know how important clarity is when looking for a new role, so we've put together a read-me about the Interview Process at Socket. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nn4jGlO_yTo4mwidE0wn8DNWoBjQbRkkpMj1Ry75WoM/edit?usp=sharing Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care o ... (truncated, view full listing at source)