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Sr. People Partner, Technology

Socket· G&A
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Remote$140k - $190kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior People Partner dedicated to Socket's Technology teams, focusing on team design, talent decisions, performance, succession, compensation, and enabling scalable People operations as Socket grows.

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.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years as a People Partner for technical teams with hands-on depth across employee relations, performance, compensation, leveling, succession, retention, and change.
  • Strong judgment in complex & uncharted situations, including when to involve Legal or specialized expertise.
  • 2+ years of experience supporting distributed, multi-country teams.
  • A builder’s mindset: you create practical structure, communicate clearly, and keep the company moving through ambiguity.
  • Curiosity and active investment in AI, data, and better tools, with good judgment about where automation helps and where people remain accountable.
  • Strong familiarity with technical career pathing, levels, and compensation models.
  • Experience building or improving People systems in a scaling company.

Skills

Required:Team design and organizationPerformance managementEmployee relationsCompensation and leveling

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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