Partner Readiness Specialist-Singapore - Malaysia

Partner Readiness Specialist Extreme Networks Location: APAC (Flexible) Department: Channel Go-To-Market Reports To: Senior Director, Go-To-Market APAC

About Extreme Networks

Over 50,000 customers globally trust our end-to-end, cloud-driven networking solutions. They rely on our industry-leading products, services, and support to accelerate digital transformation and deliver measurable business outcomes. At Extreme Networks, we believe in teamwork, transparency, candor, curiosity, ownership, and inclusion as the foundation of our success.

Position Summary

The Partner Readiness Specialist serves as the bridge between Channel Sales, Systems Engineering, Marketing, Professional Services, Revenue Enablement, and Partner Organizations across Asia Pacific.

This role combines the skills of a Sales Engineer, Technical Trainer, Business Process Specialist, and Channel Consultant to build partner capability and accelerate partner-led growth. The successful candidate will enable partner sales teams, partner systems engineers, distributors, and strategic alliance partners to confidently position, demonstrate, design, sell, and support Extreme Networks solutions.

The role is focused on helping partners become self-sufficient, technically competent, and commercially successful while increasing the scale and impact of the Extreme partner ecosystem. This includes supporting certifications, sales methodologies, technical competency, business planning, onboarding, and adoption of Extreme programs and tools.

Partner Technical Readiness: • Develop repeatable partner onboarding and readiness frameworks across APAC.

• Accelerate Platform ONE sales readiness across the partner ecosystem. • Improve partner self-sufficiency, reducing dependency on Extreme field resources. • Increase partner-generated pipeline and revenue contribution. • Expand AI-assisted selling adoption throughout partner organisations. • Train & Increase partner technical resources on Extreme Platform ONE, Fabric, Wireless, Switching, Security, Cloud, and AI-driven networking solutions. • Deliver technical workshops, boot camps, hands-on labs, and architecture sessions for partner engineers. • Conduct train-the-trainer programs to multiply partner reach and expertise. • Increase & Support APAC partner technical competency and certification attainment. • Assist partners with solution design reviews, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and customer workshops. • Deliver solution-selling and value-selling workshops aligned with Extreme strategy. • Train partner account executives on competitive positioning, customer discovery, business outcomes, and industry-specific use cases. • Create and localize partner-facing sales presentations, playbooks, battle cards, talk tracks, and sales motions. • Promote adoption of Extreme Platform ONE and associated sales plays. • Support strategic partner business plans and growth initiatives. • Help partners identify and pursue competitive replacement and new-logo opportunities and drive competitive takeout opportunities through partner-led campaigns.