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Leads Qualys’ North American national partner ecosystem, developing channel strategy, recruiting and activating strategic partners, building executive relationships, and driving partner-sourced pipeline and revenue. Responsibilities include partner enablement, joint business planning, sales collaboration, performance reporting, operating processes, and team leadership. The role requires strong cybersecurity channel expertise, executive presence, commercial acumen, and experience using Salesforce or another enterprise CRM platform.

Manage enterprise cybersecurity customer accounts, renewals, upsells, territory strategy, sales presentations, and RFI/RFP responses. Build executive relationships, conduct business and product reviews, negotiate contracts, coordinate technical and support teams, track leads and service levels, resolve customer issues, and represent Qualys at conferences. The role requires strong cybersecurity and recurring-revenue knowledge, CRM proficiency, account ownership, organization, and willingness to travel.

Manage relationships with SME customers post-sale to ensure satisfaction, drive renewals and upsells, oversee deployment of services, perform technical checkups, collect customer feedback for product teams, and coordinate with Support and Pre-Sales. Success measured by renewal and upsell rates and customer satisfaction.

Manage and expand the US partner ecosystem (VARs, resellers, distributors). Create joint business plans, enable partners, drive partner-sourced revenue and new logos, co-sell with sales, track KPIs and forecasts, manage commercial agreements, collaborate cross-functionally with product and marketing, and travel regularly for partner meetings and conferences.