[Hiring] Biometric Evangelist @ASSA ABLOY

Role Description

The Biometrics Evangelist is responsible for driving market awareness, customer adoption, and internal alignment around HID biometric reader solutions. This role serves as a subject matter expert for biometric readers, helping customers, partners, and internal teams understand the value of biometric authentication in secure, modern physical access environments. The role supports end-user strategy through:

• Customer meetings
• Vertical-market engagement
• Sales enablement
• Executive briefings
• Field collaboration

In addition, this position creates thought leadership and market-facing content through:

• Public forums
• Podcasts
• Speaking engagements
• Webinars
• Social presence
• Industry events

Success requires strong technical curiosity, executive communication skills, frequent travel, and the ability to translate biometric capabilities into clear business outcomes for internal and external customers.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders, senior leaders, and cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Experience in physical access control, identity, security technology, biometrics, credential technology, or a related technology market.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a clear, business-focused way for executive, technical, and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience supporting customers, sales teams, partners, or field organizations in a consultative or evangelist capacity.
• Strong presentation, public speaking, content creation, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to travel frequently and engage effectively in customer meetings, conferences, internal meetings, and field activities.
• Legal authorization to work in the hiring country and ability to comply with all relevant HID policies and procedures.
• Experience with biometric readers, biometric modalities, identity verification, PACS, access control hardware, mobile credentials, or cyber-physical security solutions is preferred.
• Existing relationships or experience within key vertical markets such as Education, Healthcare, Critical Infrastructure, Finance, Commercial, Technology, or Government is preferred.
• Experience creating thought leadership content, speaking at industry events, participating in podcasts, or building a professional social presence is preferred.
• Experience partnering with Product, Marketing, Sales Engineering, and Commercial teams to support solution launches or category evangelism is preferred.
• Strong understanding of customer adoption barriers, privacy considerations, change management, and stakeholder education related to biometric technologies is preferred.

Requirements

• Serving as the primary evangelist and subject matter expert for HID biometric reader solutions across end-user, partner, and internal stakeholder audiences.
• Supporting internal and external customers by translating biometric reader capabilities into clear business, security, operational, and user-experience outcomes.
• Partnering with Sales, Business Development, Product, Marketing, and Sales Engineering to build awareness, pipeline influence, and adoption of biometric reader solutions.
• Delivering customer-facing presentations, executive briefings, demos, webinars, podcasts, conference sessions, and other public speaking engagements.
• Creating and maintaining market-facing content, sales enablement materials, social posts, talk tracks, FAQs, and thought leadership assets that support biometric reader adoption.
• Representing HID in public forums and industry conversations while reinforcing HID’s trusted identity, security, and innovation positioning.
• Developing and executing an evangelism plan that increases awareness and confidence in HID biometric reader solutions across priority vertical markets.
• Collaborating with field teams to support strategic end-user opportunities, customer workshops, partner meetings, and account planning activities.
• Gathering voice-of-customer, market, and competitive insights and share actionable feedback with Product, Marketing, and Commercial leadership.
• Supporting launch, enablement, and adoption efforts for biometric reader solutions, including messaging, training, demos, event content, and customer proof points.
• Maintaining a strong external presence through public speaking, podcasts, industry panels, webinars, social media, and customer-facing content development.
• Traveling as needed to support customer engagements, industry events, field ride-alongs, internal meetings, and strategic partner activities.

Benefits

• 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