An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Director, Strategic Alliances - Mobile Credentials, Americas!!Location: Austin, Texas; Open to other HID sites
Job ID: 47868
Travel: 31-60%
The Director, Strategic Alliances - Mobile Credentials, Americas leads HID's strategic partner ecosystem across North and South America, identifying and scaling high-impact technology partnerships that reduce deployment friction and accelerate mobile credential adoption. This individual contributor role focuses on alliance strategy, partner development, go-to-market execution, and measurable business impact, with regular engagement across product, engineering, sales, and executive stakeholders.
As our Director, Strategic Alliances - Mobile Credentials, Americas, you'll support HID's success by: - Developing and owning the Americas strategic alliance roadmap for HID Mobile Credentials, aligned to product and business strategy.
- Identifying, evaluating, prioritizing, and managing high-impact technology and integration partners that accelerate adoption and scalability.
- Driving measurable commercial outcomes including partner-influenced pipeline, ARR growth, and mobile credential activation.
- Translating complex technical integrations into repeatable, market-ready solutions.
- Influencing cross-functional teams and senior executives to align on partner priorities, execution plans, and success metrics.
- Defining partner segmentation, qualification criteria, and green/red decision frameworks to guide investment and scaling decisions.
- Collaborating with Product, Engineering, Partner Services, Sales, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and Operations to establish integration priorities, API/SDK requirements, certification standards, and deployment models.
- Building and executing joint business plans with strategic partners, including value propositions, enablement plans, pipeline goals, and launch strategies.
- Negotiating commercial and technical partnership agreements that support HID's growth objectives while protecting long-term strategic value.
- Monitoring partner performance against agreed milestones and KPIs, executing pivots where partnerships fail to deliver sufficient impact.
- Serving as a subject matter expert on mobile credentials, physical access, identity, enterprise software, and ecosystem integrations across the Americas.
- Representing HID externally with strategic partners, customers, and industry stakeholders.
Your Experience and Background include: - Bachelor's degree in business, technology, engineering, marketing, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in strategic alliances, business development, ecosystem partnerships, or technology partnerships.
- Demonstrated success building and scaling technology partner ecosystems involving software, hardware, cloud, mobile, and API-based integrations.
- Proven ability to convert partnerships into commercial outcomes, including pipeline creation, ARR growth, and solution adoption.
- Strong ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams in a highly matrixed environment.
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively across North and South America.
- MBA or advanced degree is preferred.
- Physical access control industry experience strongly preferred.
- Experience with mobile credentials, digital identity, SaaS platforms, enterprise software, or integration ecosystems is preferred.
- Spanish and/or Portuguese language proficiency is preferred.
- Experience working in or with global technology organizations is preferred.
What we can offer you:- Competitive salary and rewards package
- Competitive benefits and annual leave offering, allowing for work-life balance
- A vibrant, welcoming & inclusive culture
- Extensive career development opportunities and resources to maximize your potential
- To be a part of a global organization that is pioneering the hardware, software and services that allow people to confidently navigate the physical and digital worlds
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