Project Specialist – Early Career Lisbon jobs at Cisco in Portugal

Start date:October/November 2025

Lisbon, Portugal (We follow a hybrid work approach with some office presence required - 2-3 days per week on average.)

Applications are accepted until further notice.

As a member of the Cisco IT team, you will be a valuable part of the

Your responsibilities are:

• Working with a team of engineers to design, develop, and build applications in a Scrum Agile environment.
• Showcasing your coding skills, debugging any issues, suggesting improvements, reviewing code, and providing solutions to systemic problems.
• Ensuring the security of our applications by fixing any vulnerabilities and keeping them secure.
• Assist in the development of in-app and role-based AI Agents, focusing on implementing basic security features and supporting multi-agent protocols.
• Collaborate with senior engineers to integrate agentic frameworks (such as langraph, langchain, and LLMs) for Ask/Respond functionalities, leveraging data from diverse tech platforms.
• Support the creation of Natural Language Interaction (NLI) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for enterprise data using enterprise LLMs.
• Participate in enabling and testing data connectors (e.g., Oracle, SAP HANA, Snowflake, MongoDB) by helping implement APIs and database drivers to securely retrieve and ingest data.
• Contribute to prompt engineering for LLMs exposed via APIs, including parsing basic user input and identifying intent under guidance.
• Learn and assist with building and integrating basic AI agent protocols and communication mechanisms (e.g., message formats and transport protocols).
• Work under close supervision, contributing to integration layers and inter-agent communication frameworks.

Minimum Qualifications

• A strong passion for and a deep commitment to lifelong learning, along with a willingness and eagerness to invest time in training and developing your skills.
• Passion for data and enthusiasm for data science processes and technologies, including Data Structures and Algorithms.
• Experience with either front-end, back-end, or automation technology.
• Familiarity with Object Oriented programming concepts.
• Knowledge of Web Services and JSON.
• Understanding of security practices, with some exposure to API Security Protocols.
• A good team player, with a positive and self-starter attitude.
• You are eligible to work in Portugal without any visa/work permit sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Good understanding of Agile practices and toolsets.
• Familiarity with supply chain business.
• Certifications in Java, DB (Oracle SQL,PL/SQL /JAVA/Python, SNOWFLAKE, Mongo), Python, Web Development, AWS Fundamentals.
• Certifications in Supply Chain Fundamentals, Gen AI White/Green belt.

As a Customer Success Specialist (CSS), you will play a key role in guiding customers through their critical first milestones with ThousandEyes. You’ll ensure a seamless onboarding experience, accelerate their time to first value, and set the foundation for a lasting, successful partnership. With your support and expertise, customers will be empowered to maximize the value of our platform and achieve their business goals.

• Work closely with the Sales teams on post-sales activities, including timely handoff of new customers to understand objectives, use cases, and key contacts

• Coordinate kickoff meetings to align on customer goals, timelines, and success metrics to ensure effective onboarding and implementation

• Serve as the point of contact for customers throughout the onboarding phase, working closely with professional services and adoption teams to track the status of implementation

• Monitor the onboarding progress, ensuring milestones are met and addressing any roadblocks or potential risks promptly

• Work closely with the Customer Success teams to ensure the success of the customer journey as measured by adoption, engagement, and health metrics

• Provide account support through collaboration and development of account goals and tasks for go-to-market and/or renewal strategies

• Provide regular reporting and forecasting on customer health and usage, with data insights and analysis to identify engagement patterns and proactively address underutilization

• Own the internal communication with stakeholders and account teams to ensure effective customer communications and strategies

• Collaborate with account team members to organize proactive project campaigns, customer outreaches, check ins, and MBRs/QBRs to drive engagement and adoption

• Regularly participate and complete enablement programs to keep abreast of business and product updates and innovations, for continual learning and growth

• Highly organized with outstanding follow-up skills, ability to manage high volume of accounts

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of building rapport with diverse stakeholders and teams

• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and adaptable to a fast-paced, evolving environment

• 2+ years of experience in Customer Success, Onboarding, or Account Management within a SaaS environment

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience in SaaS and Cloud technologies

• Familiarity with customer journey mapping and success planning methodologies

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret customer data and translate insights into actions

• Proficiency in English (written and communication skills)

• Experience with CRM and customer success tools (e.g., Salesforce, Gainsight, Gong, Looker)

Start date:September/October 2025

Lisbon, Portugal (We follow a hybrid work approach with some office presence required - 2-3 days per week on average.)

Applications are accepted until further notice.

Your impact

You will join us at Supply Chain IT. You will be working on design and development of the next gen capabilities to drive our transformation to cloud native architecture.

Your responsibilities are:

• Deploy and maintain business critical applications in production at Cisco scale
• Be a critical part of the development team by implementing and deploying complex software applications
• Apply software engineering best practices along with a security first mindset in a scrum team
• Maintain and expand knowledge and skills of current and emerging technologies to improve existing Cisco Supply chain applications
• Present, share and demonstrate your work to team members and stakeholders
• You'll collaborate with Product Owners, Other Architects, Tech Leads, Analysts and global delivery teams within the Organization, and across various functions in Cisco.
• Participate in the active development of our Supply Chain IT applications, taking responsibility in all stages - requirements gathering, feature development, testing, documenting and deployment.

Minimum Qualifications

• You are a recent graduate or on your final year of studies towards a degree or related program or other academic certification; equivalent experience accepted in lieu of degree
• A passion for – and a commitment to lifelong learning – a willingness and eagerness to invest time in training and developing your skills
• Passion for data and enthusiasm for data science processes and technologies including Data Structures and Algorithms.
• Programming language experience e.g: PL/SQL, Python
• Exposure to Object Oriented programming concepts.
• Knowledge of Web Services and JSON
• Understanding of strong security practices with some exposure to API Security Protocols.
• Positive and self-starter attitude
• Expertise in object-oriented programming using languages such as JavaScript and/or Java.
• Knowledge in the NodeJS runtime environment
• Solid fundamentals on API concepts and operations using REST
• You are eligible to work in Portugalwithout any visa/work permit sponsorship

Start date:September 2025

Lisbon, Portugal (We follow a hybrid work approach with some office presence required - 2-3 days per week on average.)

Applications are accepted until further notice.

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Your Impact

In this role you’ll be a primary point of contact for our customer Enterprise Agreement onboarding with complete accountability of the quality of the engagement. Supervise the progress of results, both internally and externally, through a customer onboarding plan that includes activity definition, sequencing of landmarks, project schedules, project results and quality requirements of the onboarding plan.

• Deliver internal and external kick-off meetings
• Support large customers with EA Onboarding
• Maintain deployment delivery schedule and lead customer expectations
• Raise critical issues and involve account teams and leadership if customer expectations are misaligned
• Update tracking tools daily and provide progress reports for operational and program teams
• Ensure all critical project documentation is filed on relevant project folder in Central repository
• Encourage customers to take needed actions in their onboarding for success and supervise long term business outcomes
• Collaborate with the PAS Regional Lead, Account teams, CX, Partners to improve customer adoption, address product concerns and drive incremental growth
• Be responsible for evangelizing the end-to-end CX offer strategy and roadmap to sales specialists, delivery teams, and customers

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree preferably in a related field, with technical background.Equivalent experience accepted in lieu of degree
• You consider yourself highly customer-focused with a strong interest in Customer Success and/or Project Management.
• Can work across internal and external teams of all levels to proactively encourage customer onboarding and work towards common goal.
• You are skilled at converting goals into impactful plans to meet objectives
• You have a consultative approach towards customers and like to think strategically
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to expertly connect with diverse audiences to produce clarity and impact both in remote/virtual and face-to-face environments
• You are a phenomenal team player, flexible and feel comfortable with working independently
• Knowledge of Power Point, Excel and reporting skills
• Proficient English in speaking and writing
• You are eligible to work in Portugal without any visa/work permit sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications:

• High level understanding of Cisco Enterprise Agreements, Products, Services and Solutions
• Have a clear understanding of high-level business landscape including key strategic priorities, processes and driven marketplace
• Proactively understands customer needs and aligns resources to those needs as applicable, while managing their expectations accordingly

Start date: June 2025

Applications are accepted until further notice.

As a Graduate/Early in Career BPLO Operations Specialist, you will play a key role in supporting our internal stakeholders with operational guidance around Enterprise Agreements and Large and Complex deals.

You will ensure all interactions with our sellers are documented and perform data analysis to support the decision making around the evolution of the operating model in the buying program space. You will have the ability to feed Artificial Intelligence (AI) models’ interactive knowledge base to optimize and enhance internal workflows and engagement models in a digital context.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You will be part of the Buying Programs Lifecycle Operations team that is part of the Commerce Operations EMEA organization and will work closely in person or through digital channels with your peers in-country or across EMEA/global. With thorough understanding and knowledge of your audience, you will serve as a trusted advisor to our key internal stakeholders.

WHO YOU ARE

• Strong Project Management skills
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data
• Proficiency in data visualization tools and process workflows
• Effective Communication/Interpersonal Skills
• High intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn new technologies and concepts
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
• Attention to detail and a professional demeanour.

Minimum Qualifications

• Including but not limited to a graduate/upcoming graduate with a degree in Data Science, Business, Economics, or a related field.
• Familiarity with data analysis tools and techniques.
• Interest in commercial operations, process workflows and documentation.
• Enthusiastic about leveraging technology to drive business efficiency.
• You enjoy working in a fast-paced changing environment.
• You have a passion for Customer experience and communicate clearly while delivering on the best solutions for our stakeholders.
• You are passionate about problem resolution and leverage an innovative mindset to drive better outcomes.
• Eligible to live and work in Portugal without visa support or sponsorship

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