Technical Account Manager, Commercial
Required skills
- technical advisor
- customer success plans
- technical onboarding
- enterprise customers
- integration
- CI/CD systems
- IDEs
- internal tooling
- onboarding playbooks
- scripts
Nice to have
- commercial customer segments
- mid-market customer segments
- SCA
- dependency management
- security scanning tools
- one-to-many customer programs
Role summary
Socket is seeking a Technical Account Manager to manage post-sale customer success for commercial clients. This product-focused, technical role involves understanding customer needs, guiding them to successful product adoption, and troubleshooting issues. You will act as the primary technical advisor, build success plans, lead onboarding and integration, and provide technical support. Responsibilities include investigating and resolving integration/configuration problems, using logs and telemetry for root cause analysis, and escalating to engineering when necessary. You will also conduct discovery conversations, deliver workshops, and bring customer feedback to the Product and Engineering teams. The ideal candidate has 3 years in a technical customer-facing role, 1+ years as a dedicated customer point of contact, and a background in application security, DevSecOps, open-source ecosystems, or Linux systems administration. Experience with developer tooling, CI/CD platforms, code reading, SaaS integration patterns, and package managers is required. Familiarity with SCA, dependency management, or security scanning tools is a plus.
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
Our Interview Process
Informational call with someone from our Talent team
Virtual f2f with technical leadership
Virtual f2f with a peer
Presentation
Final interview with our Founder & CEO
References
Decision
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
Market competitive salary bands
Meaningful equity program
Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family (99% coverage)
Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge
Paid parental leave
Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites
At Socket, we
Pursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
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.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
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.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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