Manager, Technical Account Teams (Enterprise)

Socket; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market competitive salary bands

Meaningful equity program

Comprehensive health benefits for you

Remote-first, quarterly team off-sites

Flexible time-off and holidays

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Socket seeks a leader to run Enterprise Technical Account Management, owning onboarding, adoption, customer health, and retention after the deal closes. You will lead a team of TAMs and ensure there’s never a product reason to walk away.

You bring deep post-sales experience, a track record of coaching teams to success, and ownership of retention metrics. You’ll scale a small, dynamic team and turn our blueprints into a repeatable retention engine with automation and playbooks.

Qualifications

• 4+ years directly managing post-sales teams (TAM, Solution Engineering, or related).
• 6+ years total in pre or post-sales roles in B2B SaaS.
• Owned GRR, NRR, or adoption targets with measurable results.
• Background in security, developer tools, or a technical product.
• Escalation owner on at-risk enterprise accounts with 'save' stories.
• Built or improved core post-sales systems: segmentation, playbooks, health scoring.
• Willingness to step in as IC when needed; executive-facing with CISOs/VPs.
• Willing to travel for customer/company meetings.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of Enterprise TAMs; hire ahead as we scale.
• Own adoption, health, and gross retention across the enterprise base.
• Mature the post-sales operating system: segmentation, health scoring, lifecycle playbooks.
• Serve as senior escalation point; run deep dives and save plans.
• Set performance bars and drive career growth on the team.
• Increase velocity via automation, playbooks, and scalable programs.
• Feed customer patterns to Product/Engineering for roadmap influence.
• Report retention and team health with data-driven metrics.

Skills

Post-sales leadership

TAM management

Executive presence

Security / DevSecOps knowledge

Stakeholder management

Escalation ownership

Automation & playbooks

Coaching and mentoring

Tools

Slack

GitHub

Zendesk

Vitally

HubSpot

Grafana

Job description

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

Our customers are the most demanding buyers in software: security teams and engineers who can smell fluff from a mile away. Keeping them successful takes a technical post-sales team, and those teams need strong leaders driving them.

You’ll lead a team of Enterprise Technical Account Managers who own everything after the deal closes: onboarding, adoption, customer health, and the deep technical partnership that keeps engineers happy. Your team owns making sure there’s never a product reason to walk away.

You have deep experience in post-sales, a track record of coaching team members to success, and have owned retention numbers that matter. You’ve been the person others go to for guidance, and you’re looking for the right opportunity to manage a small, dynamic team.

The Socket blueprints exist: segmentation, a health score model, role charters, and playbooks are drafted. Now we’re hiring a leadership layer to strengthen our operating muscle: automation, targets, cadences, team accountability and growth.

You’ll inherit a strong team and a customer base that genuinely loves the product. Your job is to turn the blueprint into a retention engine that runs without heroics.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of Enterprise TAMs. Hire ahead of need as we scale.

• Own adoption, customer health, and gross retention outcomes across the customer base, partnering with AEs who own the enterprise renewal

• Influence and mature the post-sales operating system: our segmentation, health scoring, and lifecycle playbooks exist. Make them run, then make them better. QBRs should tell a real story with real data instead of a slide of vanity metrics.

• Be the senior escalation point when an account is at risk. Run the deep dive, build the save plan, and see it through.

• Set the bar for performance and career growth on your team, then hold it

• Make the team faster per head every quarter through automation, playbooks, and one-to-many programs

• Feed technical field intelligence back to Product and Engineering so customer patterns actually reach the roadmap

• Report retention, adoption, and team health to leadership with numbers you’d bet on

What You’ll Bring

Required:

• 4+ years directly managing post-sales teams (TAM, Solution Engineering, or related). You’ve hired, developed, and performance-managed ICs.

• 6+ years total in pre or post-sales roles (TAM, Solutions, or Services) in B2B SaaS

• You’ve owned GRR, NRR, or adoption targets and can walk us through the number, the misses, and what you changed

• Background in security, developer tools, or an adjacent technical product. You know how the SDLC works and how devs and security teams actually operate.

• You’ve been the escalation owner on at-risk enterprise accounts and have the save stories to prove it

• You’ve built, operationalized, or improved on core post-sales systems: segmentation, playbooks, health scoring, QBR frameworks.

• Ready to step in as an individual contributor to support team needs, cover gaps, or lead by example when the team is at capacity.

• Executive presence with CISOs and VPs of Engineering, and with our own leadership

• Willingness to travel for customer and company meetings as needed

• Demonstrated success in supporting and scaling relationships with large-scale enterprise customers, managing complex stakeholder requirements and high-stakes technical environments.

Preferred:

• Domain experience in software supply chain security, AppSec, DevSecOps, or open-source ecosystems

• You scaled a post-sales function at a high-growth startup through rapid ARR and headcount growth

• You’ve managed TAM charters and kept each motion distinct but coordinated.

• Hands-on with Vitally or similar CS platforms and scaled/digital-touch programs

Tools You’ll Use

Slack, GitHub, Zendesk, Vitally, HubSpot, Grafana

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

1. Pursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.

2. Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.

3. 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.

4. Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.

5. 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. Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.