As a Senior HR Business Partner, you will support an engineering organization of 350+ employees as a trusted advisor on all people-related matters. You know that strong, lasting relationships are essential to influencing decisions and driving meaningful change. You thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments, embracing ambiguity while collaborating with department leaders and the broader HR team to elevate the employee experience across the full lifecycle.
You will lead core HR processes for your assigned groups, including performance reviews, employee development, hiring, succession planning, and employee relations. Your focus is to deliver a high-quality employee experience that supports our long-term business objectives, helps us retain top talent, and reinforces our reputation as a great place to work.
As a key HR resource, you will provide tailored support to managers and employees, coach leaders, resolve employee concerns, and advance strategic HR initiatives to drive positive outcomes.
This role is based at our Tysons HQ. We value in-person collaboration and require working from the office Monday through Thursday each week.
Responsibilities
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Serve as a strategic HR partner by providing programmatic support, coaching, and thought partnership to all levels within the Software Engineering organization.
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Partner with leaders to provide both strategic guidance and hands-on HR support, balancing big-picture thinking with day-to-day execution. This role requires someone who is comfortable shifting between strategy and transactional work — from advising leaders and facilitating discussions to drafting documents, managing employee relations matters, and supporting core HR processes.
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Build strong relationships to gain deep insight into business needs and challenges.
- Develop people strategies and design approaches for diagnosing and enhancing organizational effectiveness and employee satisfaction.
- Partner with business leaders to manage and facilitate organizational change.
- Proactively assess team and manager development needs, make recommendations, and implement appropriate solutions.
- Provide HR expertise in areas such as performance management, employee relations, leadership development, coaching, and organizational growth.
- Guide managers through complex employee relations matters, ensuring fair and consistent resolution of workplace issues, including investigations and performance improvement plans.
- Integrate and partner with HR colleagues in the Recruiting, Learning & Development, Compensation, Legal, and HR Operations teams to implement solutions and help scale the business.
- Perform other HR-related duties as needed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in a HR Business Partner role.
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Previous experience supporting engineering teams is preferred but not required.
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Proven employee relations experience and guidance, with the ability to manage delicate situations with fairness and appropriate outcomes.
- Strong client-service focus and ability to build and manage relationships across different levels and functions.
- Desire to work collaboratively with broader HR team to analyze, plan, and improve processes.
- Able to balance multiple time-sensitive deliverables and effectively prioritize, organize, and manage time.
- Commitment to excellence and high level of integrity; ability to exercise strict confidentiality and sound judgement.
- Takes ownership of work, isn't afraid to tackle challenges, sees opportunities for growth, and has the patience to learn new processes.
Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time.
WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM?
- Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers.
- Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team!
- Gain well rounded experience: Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business.
- Community and Camaraderie: One of our core values is to 'Keep It Fun,' which to us means fostering a strong sense of community. Our culture is built on collaboration and connection, where we celebrate our successes and believe that a positive, engaging environment is key to doing our best work.
- Alarm.com values working together and collaborating in person. Our employees work from the office 4 days a week.
COMPANY INFO
Alarm.com is the leading platform for intelligently connected properties. Millions of homeowners and businesses rely on Alarm.com's technology to secure, monitor, and manage their environments from anywhere. Our comprehensive suite of solutions—including security, video surveillance, access control, active shooter detection, intelligent automation, energy management, and wellness—is delivered exclusively through a trusted network of thousands of professional service providers and commercial integrators across North America and worldwide. Alarm.com's common stock is traded on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. Alarm.com delivers serious security for serious people.
For more information, please visit www.alarm.com.
COMPANY BENEFITS
Our total rewards package is designed to support you holistically—in your health, your finances, and your life outside of work. The package includes medical plans with company subsidies, a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution, and a 401(k) with an employer match. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave. To complete the package, we also provide company-paid disability and life insurance, all within a collaborative and casual work environment.
Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer
In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you ("Personal Information"). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision.
Notice To Third Party Agencies:
Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com.
