Lead Data Center/Hyperscale Sales Development Representative - Remote - Location in San Jose, CA

Lead Data Center/Hyperscale Sales Development Representative

Job Overview TE Connectivity (TE) is a leading global provider of highly engineered connectors and sensors with sales of over $15 billion to customers in more than 150 countries. They design, manufacture and market products for customers in a broad array of industries including automotive; consumer electronics; telecommunications; aerospace; defense & military; medical & healthcare; oil & gas/marine; and energy & utilities. With over 80,000 associates including 7,500 engineers and worldwide manufacturing, sales and customer service capabilities, TE Connectivity's commitment is their customers' advantage. TE Connectivity is an independent publicly traded company whose common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "TEL." TE's connectivity solutions are key enablers in our increasingly connected world. Safer and more advanced medical devices, smarter factories, connected vehicles, and data everywhere are underlying market trends creating significant opportunities for TE. TE's dedication to innovation, focus on solutions for harsh environments, and commitment to delivering extraordinary customer experiences enable TE to capitalize on these opportunities and more.

Digital Data Networks Business Unit The Cloud market is changing at an unprecedented pace, and the Digital Data Networks (DDN) Business Unit at TE Connectivity is at the heart of a continuously expanding connected life. Accordingly, DDN provides responsive, iterative, and fundamentally agile capabilities conceived, designed and manufactured to support today's demands. DDN's customers are building the devices and the infrastructure that is redefining what information technology means. Their products push markets and meet the ever-changing need of the evolving, more connected, data-driven world. They are enhancing the way the world does business, focusing on the most important things and staying agile and responsive to the needs of a faster, more connected world. This business has high performing yet complex manufacturing operations encompassing 10,000+ SKUs, 300,000+ orders and 10 million+ shipments through 10 distribution centers annually, all while launching upwards of 50 new products per year.

Job Requirements TE Connectivity seeks an experienced and dynamic Account Manager for hyperscale sales to support a global team that covers one of the world's top hyperscale customers within the AI and Cloud Hyperscale sector. This individual will be pivotal in driving business growth and enhancing TE's DDN partnerships at this key account. The Account Manager, Hyperscale Sales will be responsible for activities related to defining and implementing the sales strategy and achieving revenue targets across all aspects of this top customer. This includes account development and expansion; coordination of sales activities; closing deals and leading a growing team of highly successful sales and account managers in Washington and Taiwan. The candidate will bring a growth-oriented strategic mindset, strong commercial acumen, team leadership experience, influencing skills to work in a matrix-structure and will bring a hands-on leadership style.

Specific Responsibilities

• Strategic Account Management
• Business Development
• Market Analysis
• Customer Engagement
• Delivering Revenue Targets
• Collaboration

What your background should look like The Hyperscale Account Manager will be a highly experienced executive with 10+ years successfully selling in the hyperscale datacenter market. Experience in managing, building, invigorating and driving share growth is a must. Specifically, the successful candidate will have:

• 10 years Tier 1 sales experience, with at least 5 years successfully leading sales teams.
• Experience in the AI or high-speed computing industry.
• Proven sales executive experience, meeting, or exceeding targets.
• Prior experience in Hyperscale data center sales with a deep understanding of cloud ecosystems.
• Track record of building strategic opportunities, negotiating and closing large technology-oriented contracts.
• Skilled at communicating and leveraging value propositions.
• Ability to understand the big picture, uncover customer needs and translate into selling opportunities.
• Experience in negotiating Legal contracts to drive desired business agreement results.
• Strong business sense and industry expertise.
• Career progression capability and aspiration.
• Strong familiarity with CRM tools and systems (Salesforce) desirable.
• Technical aptitude / engineering undergraduate degree required.
• Ability to travel up to 10-20% including international travel.

Leadership Qualifications The Hyperscale Account Manager will energize teams with strong EQ, high energy, and achieve lasting results and TE/customer leadership respect. The Global Account Manager should possess the following skills:

• Sales Leadership Skills: Excellent sales leadership skills as demonstrated by a record of guiding sales growth through an organization.
• Strong relationship development, collaboration and influencing skills.
• Delivery and Results Oriented: The ability to find solutions and generate results in a dynamic environment.
• Influencing Skills: Keen listening, open-mindedness, and strong interpersonal skills so that the necessary alliances with internal and external groups can be forged and developed quickly.
• Communications Skills: Comfortable communicating both formally and informally with senior executives.
• Adaptability: Able to thrive in a fast-paced global environment where flexibility, resilience, comfort with ambiguity and adaptability to change is needed.

Education Undergraduate degree in engineering is required. An advanced degree, such as a Master of Business Administration degree, is desirable.

Compensation Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $167,500 -190K (subject to change dependent on physical location)

Benefits A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.

Important Notice Regarding Recruitment Fraud TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com . If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.