Senior Tech People Partner - Scale Team Design & Talent

Socket; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary bands

Equity program

Health benefits for family

Time-off policy

Parental leave

Remote-first with quarterly off-sites

Job summary

Socket is hiring its first People Partner dedicated to our Technology teams. You’ll influence org design, coaching leaders, and shaping compensation, leveling, and onboarding as we scale.

You’ll partner with People Ops, Legal, and Finance to build practical processes, surface risks with data, and move from discussion to decisions. This remote-first role includes quarterly team off-sites and deep impact on our engineering careers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a People Partner for technical teams with hands-on depth in ER, performance, compensation, leveling, and retention.
• Strong judgment in complex, uncharted situations, including when to involve Legal or specialized expertise.
• 2+ years supporting distributed, multi-country teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with Technology leaders on team design, structure, capacity, headcount, and the talent decisions behind our priorities.
• Help leaders make clearer, more consistent calls on roles, levels, compensation, succession, and internal movement.
• Coach managers to set expectations, give useful feedback, address performance, navigate conflict, and lead effectively as their scope grows.
• Own employee relation issues from first signal through resolution, bringing the right balance of care, rigor, documentation, and pace.
• Lead talent and performance cycles that produce decisions and action, not just meetings, ratings, or completed forms.
• Work with Talent to improve role design, leveling, and how we evaluate candidates for technical positions.
• Use data and day-to-day signals to float retention concerns, gaps, and recurring friction early.
• Build practical fixes with People Ops, Legal, and Finance when a process is unclear, inconsistent, or no longer fits the company’s stage.

Skills

Employee relations

Performance management

Compensation guidance

Leveling & career paths

Succession planning

Retention strategies

Change management

Job description

Socket is hiring its first People Partner dedicated to our Technology teams. You’ll influence org design, coaching leaders, and shaping compensation, leveling, and onboarding as we scale.

You’ll partner with People Ops, Legal, and Finance to build practical processes, surface risks with data, and move from discussion to decisions. This remote-first role includes quarterly team off-sites and deep impact on our engineering careers.