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Product Design Lead

Leads product design for Socket's security platform, creating coherent vision, design systems, and intuitive experiences for developers across multiple products. Partners with CEO, engineering, and customers to simplify complex supply chain security.

United StatesProduct DesignRemote

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Shape the entire platform, creating the coherent vision that ties everything together across Socket's products (Socket Open Source, Firewall, Certified Patches, etc.).
  • Lead design as strategy, defining design primitives, patterns, and interactions that scale.
  • Partner with leadership (CEO, engineering, sales/marketing) and participate in customer conversations.
  • Design end-to-end experiences that make complex security concepts approachable for developers.
  • Work with engineering to develop interfaces that abstract complexity while preserving precision.
  • Establish and evolve Socket's design system for consistency and speed.
  • Shape visual and interaction language; help define roadmap and prioritize design opportunities.
  • Be part of hiring and building the design team.

What You'll Bring

  • Shipped products at a high bar with systems-level clarity.
  • Deep experience designing for developers or technical audiences.
  • Portfolio demonstrating systems thinking: design languages, component systems, consistency across complex products.
  • Comfort working directly with engineering/product leadership, moving fast without excessive process.
  • Experience designing security/infrastructure tools (plus, not required).
  • Strong focus on craft and functional details (pixels, interactions, word choice).

Benefits

  • Market competitive salary bands.
  • Meaningful equity program.
  • Comprehensive health benefits.
  • Flexible time-off, holidays, winter shutdown.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Remote-first with quarterly off-sites.

Skills

FigmaSketchAdobe XDDesign SystemsComponent LibrariesPrototyping ToolsDeveloper ToolsSecurity UxInteraction DesignVisual Design

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