Own customer success for European clients as a Technical Account Manager, focusing on onboarding, troubleshooting, and relationship building.
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The Technical Account Manager at Socket.dev is responsible for ensuring customer success post-sale by acting as the main technical advisor and point of contact for European clients. This role requires a strong background in application security and developer tooling, along with the ability to troubleshoot technical issues and facilitate onboarding processes. Ideal candidates will have over six years of experience in a technical customer-facing role, with a focus on building relationships and driving customer adoption. The position is integral to the company's mission of enhancing the developer experience while managing open-source code.
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About the Role
You'll own customer success post-sale for our European Customers. 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.
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
Must be located in the UK or Denmark
6+ years in a technical customer-facing role (Solutions Engineer, Technical Account Manager, Support Engineer, or similar)
2+ years of experience being the dedicated point of contact for customers with an emphasis on quarterly health checks and success
Background in application security, DevSecOps, or open-source ecosystems
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 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
Informational call with someone from our Talent team
Virtual f2f with a peer
Presentation
Interview with our Head of CS
Final interview with our Founder & CEO
References
Decision
Market competitive salary bands
Meaningful equity program
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.
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