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We approach our work with kindness, valuing the unique talents, passion, and joy that each team member brings to our collaborative culture. Our team is dedicated to helping organizations reach their best by solving complex business challenges at scale. We foster an environment of inclusiveness, disruption, and fun, ensuring that every member feels supported as they reach new heights.\nYour impact\nAs a Regional Partner Technical Manager, you will directly influence partner success and drive business growth across Spain and Portugal by empowering our partner ecosystem to independently deliver Splunk and Cisco solutions.\nJoining our collaborative team offers significant international exposure and the opportunity to lead strategic initiatives across Cybersecurity, Observability, and Artificial Intelligence.\n What you will do\nDrive the technical enablement and development of strategic Splunk partners across Spain and Portugal to accelerate regional business growth.\nCreate and consistently update Partner Technical Scorecards and development plans to track capabilities, certifications, and align with regional go-to-market strategies.\nIdentify, shape, and advance partner-influenced opportunities across security, observability, and platform use cases to drive pipeline generation.\nBuild and sustain a strong regional partner technical community by hosting regular enablement sessions, workshops, roundtables, and forums.\nCoach partner pre-sales teams to develop high-quality architectures, proposals, and Proof of Values (POVs) or Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to ensure successful customer outcomes.\nLead end-to-end planning for competency development by delivering technical enablement and hands-on workshops focused on Partner Tier Upgrades.\nGuide partners to build industry-aligned propositions and repeatable solutions supported by Splunk and Cisco reference architectures.\nServe as the technical bridge between internal teams and partner technical stakeholders to ensure the consistent application of best practices.\nTrack opportunity progression, conduct architecture reviews, and remove technical blockers to accelerate deal velocity.\n Minimum qualifications\n7+ years of experience in technical pre-sales, solutions engineering, consulting, or partner technical enablement.\nSolid technical background in cybersecurity, SIEM or observability.\nExperience delivering technical presentations, workshops, and product demonstrations.\nProfessional fluency in Spanish and English.\nAbility to travel across Spain and Portugal for partner meetings, workshops, and company events.\n Preferred qualifications\nExperience with Splunk Security (SIEM, SOAR), Splunk Observability, or competing industry solutions.\nExperience delivering Proof of Concepts (PoCs) or Proof of Values (POVs).\nKnowledge of Cisco technologies and enterprise security solutions.\nExperience working with technology partners, distributors, or channel ecosystems.\nRelevant technical certifications in cybersecurity, cloud computing, or observability.\nProfessional fluency in Portuguese.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. 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