Managers and team leads

Bring your team into security sales

Knock Alarm introduces door-to-door managers and their crews to security sales companies that want experienced teams. If you lead reps in solar, pest control, roofing, fiber, wireless or security already, apply as a team lead and tell us about your crew.

Why teams move into security

Door-to-door skills transfer. A crew that can knock solar or pest control can learn a security product line quickly, and security teams sell year-round locally with a summer travel push. Security companies compete with solar, pest, roofing and fiber for experienced door-to-door talent, and some will talk with a manager who brings reps differently than with a single applicant.

What we ask you

• How many reps you lead today and how many would move with you.
• What your crew sells now and where.
• Whether your crew travels for summer (the teams we work with do).
• What you need from a company: override structure, offices, housing, start dates.

Use the application on this page and pick "I lead a team". A recruiter will call you.

What to ask the company

1. How are managers paid on their team's accounts, and for how long?
2. Do my reps sign directly with the company, and on what terms?
3. Which markets can my team work locally and in summer?
4. Who handles licensing, housing and travel for my reps?
5. What happens to my overrides if a rep moves to another manager?
6. Can I get the manager agreement in writing before my reps commit?

Your reps should ask their own questions too. Point them to our checklist before you sign and how security sales pay works.

Honest selling is a condition

We only introduce teams that sell under their real company name and follow the rules at the door. Security is an industry where one bad crew gets a whole company banned from a city. If your team has a clean record, say so; it's the first thing a good company will ask.

How a team move usually goes

1. First call. A Knock Alarm recruiter asks about your crew: size, what you sell, where, your record, and what you want next.
2. Introduction. If a security sales company has room for a team like yours, we introduce you to its leadership and tell you who they are and what brand they sell before the meeting.
3. Terms in writing. The company offers you a manager agreement and offers each rep their own agreement. Read both before anyone quits a current job.
4. Training and licensing. Your crew learns the product line and the company's rules at the door, and gets registered in any state that licenses alarm salespeople.
5. Local first, then summer. Your team sells locally while it learns the product, then travels with the company for summer.

Moving a crew mid-season is hard on reps. Fall and winter are usually the cleanest time to switch, because there are months of local selling before the summer travel starts.

What Knock Alarm does and doesn't do

We make the introduction and stay in touch. (If you run a security sales company rather than a crew, see Knock Alarm for companies.) The company negotiates with you, signs you and your reps and pays you. We don't charge you or your reps anything; the company pays us. We don't promise a deal, a market or a number. If you'd rather keep your crew on fiber, our sister site KnockFiber places door-to-door fiber teams.

Not sure your crew is ready for summer travel? Read what summer travel looks like and share it with them.

Questions

Updated November 11, 2026