management
Posted Mar 20VP of Engineering
at Socket
San Francisco, United StatesRemote
Responsibilities
- Build planning cadence, sprint structure, and decision-making processes that are lightweight enough to stay fast and rigorous enough to catch risks early.
- Document how Socket makes decisions so new engineers understand the culture, not just the rules.
- Create weekly coordination rhythms so teams sync proactively.
- Define clear growth paths so engineers know how to advance. - Eliminate operational friction.
- Identify the five biggest bottlenecks slowing the team down.
- Define what success looks like, track progress weekly, manage dependencies, escalate risks early. - Keep hands-on technical credibility.
- Create lightweight architecture review processes so major decisions are coordinated and informed, not siloed. - Establish culture and feedback loops that scale.
- Run skip-level 1-on-1s to understand what's actually blocking people.
- Build a feedback culture where code review is learning and where architecture reviews strengthen decisions instead of slowing them down.
- be the operational leader who keeps the organization unblocked and coordinated, AND be the technical leader who shapes architecture decisions and keeps the team executing with urgency. - Design an operating system that actually works.
Requirements
- Experience with security or supply chain security is a plus.
- 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. 6.
Benefits
- 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 1.