# Technical Account Manager, Commercial at Socket

> Remote · North America · Unspecified · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Asocket%3Ac22588ba-5e23-4f48-88fa-beeb15430261 (read 2026-11-05).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Socket](https://alderhq.app/companies/socket)
- Location text: United States; Canada
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Remote · North America (evidence: "Location: United States; Canada")
- Posted: 2026-09-11 (55 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/socket/c22588ba-5e23-4f48-88fa-beeb15430261
- Skills listed (inferred): TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Docker, Figma

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $130k–$160k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- Market band for similar posted roles (United States, n 15888): p25 $58k, median $93k, p75 $158k

## Description (the employer's text)

### 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 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 $125M in funding from top angels, operators, and security leaders.

### About the Role

You'll own customer success post-sale for a portfolio of commercial customers. That means understanding how each customer wants to use Socket, helping them get there quickly, and solving problems when things break.

This is a product-focused, technical role. You'll balance hands-on customer guidance with scalable programs that help many customers adopt Socket successfully. You'll learn customer environments, uncover blockers, and translate product capabilities into practical 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 customers successful with the product and building repeatable motions that scale.

### What You'll Do

### Account Management

Own post sales relationship as the main point of contact and technical advisor

Strategize with AEs on upsells, renewals and expansions

Relationship building and executive alignment with our Champions

Conducting Quarterly Business Reviews with strategic customers

Build measurable customer success plans

### 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 Troubleshooting

Investigate and resolve integration, configuration, and compatibility issues

Respond to customer issues in dedicated Slack channels

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)

1+ years of experience being the dedicated point of contact for customers with an emphasis on quarterly health checks and success

Background in Socket's key product areas: Application Security, DevSecOps, package managers, or open-source ecosystems OR Linux systems administration, networking, firewalls, and Docker

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

Experience supporting commercial or mid-market customer segments

Experience with SCA, dependency management, or security scanning tools

Experience designing one-to-many customer programs

Contributions to open-source projects

### Tools You'll Use

Slack, GitHub, Zendesk, Vitally, HubSpot, Grafana

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