Sr. Manager Connected Home Partnerships

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 30 brands, 12,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, in 2024 we were awarded the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, which recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world.

Sr. Manager Connected Home Partnerships

The Sr. Manager, Connected Home Partnerships is a role that blends technical and business skills, is a key influencer, and the primary point of contact day-to-day for strategic partners, ensuring that leaders and other key staff are aware of opportunities and challenges ahead of the competition. 

Remote:

At Allegion, we recognize that great talent and breakthrough ideas can come from anywhere. That’s why this position offers a flexible remote work arrangement, with occasional on-site visits as needed based on the role. Whether you’re working remotely or collaborating in person, we’re committed to providing the tools, support, and dynamic environment you need to succeed. At Allegion, your career thrives where innovation meets flexibility, empowering you to achieve your goals while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

While this is the current structure and we currently have no plans to change, we reserve the right to make changes to the remote schedule as needed at the Company’s discretion.

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. The company does not intend to provide sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position.

What You Will Do:

• Drive Smart Home Electronics Platform including working closely with Software Product Management on the Vision and Strategy for Seamless Access within the connected home for Consumers and Businesses.

• Be a primary point of contact for strategic partners and customers representing Allegion’s best interests.

• Collaborate internally to address time sensitive opportunities in market to provide competitive advantage today, tomorrow and the future.

• Help the Allegion Home teams drive business opportunities by cultivating important strategic relationships with smart home ecosystem companies (Apple, Google, Samsung, etc.), premium smart home system providers, startups, Builders, Retailers, Property Management solution providers, etc.

• Work with and influence strategic partners to help identify key opportunities and actions that drive robust growth and exposure for our residential products and brand(s) in the short, medium, and long term.

• Help Marketing drive beneficial media coverage by identifying opportunities and partnering closely with strategic partners.

• Provide insight, guidance and leadership to sales, marketing, and engineering teams on engagement with key partners.

• Identify, evaluate, and analyze critical strategic partner priorities and/or strategic problems for the benefit of Allegion peers.

• Provide support and coordination amongst internal resources to successfully address strategic opportunities and challenges with strategic market partners and customers.

• Work closely with internal resources including software, hardware, and customer success teams to ensure successful integrations are achieved through our APIs and integrated smart lock capabilities with both new and existing partners.

What You Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor's degree in business, management, technology or engineering.

• 10+ years of total experience in management consulting, strategic planning, business development, product development or related fields.

• Proven ability to influence and at times, lead cross-functional teams and provide project management support.

• Superior analytic skills, and the ability to compile, analyze and leverage performance data to both identify new opportunities and optimize current campaigns.

• Preferred: experience working with embedded firmware, software, and API’s 

• Demonstrated ability to deliver against OKRs while supporting strategic and tactical plans.

• Superior writing, communication and presentation skills.

• Proven ability to conduct and/or analyze research related to consumers, industries and competitors.

• Comfortable leading and working with change

• Absolute self-starter with the self-awareness to know when and how to ask for help

• Ability to travel up to 30%. Travel requirement will be less if locate