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Lead Sales Development Representative - Remote - Location in Bay Area, CA (San
TE Connectivity
Executive opportunity brief
The decision in one screen
A compact evidence-first read of compensation, flexibility, mobility and what still needs verification. No universal quality score is used.
Fast read
Opportunity DNA
There is a useful advantage here: pay compares strongly with similar current roles. Still, location rules could change the fit could change the fit.
Around the 79th percentile within 102 comparable USD salary observations.
Work-related travel is required or expected.
The listing does not make the minimum education or experience threshold clear enough yet.
Sponsorship and relocation support are not clear from the current listing.
Part of the application route can be assessed, but the full external process may contain additional steps.
At least one recent enabled source can still renew this vacancy.
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Decision evidence check
5 of 5 core facts stated
This checks whether the listing states the facts that commonly change an employment decision. It measures disclosure completeness, not whether the opportunity is good or bad.
Facts already stated
- Compensation
- Work arrangement
- Location eligibility
- Application closing time
- Employment type
Core evidence complete
All five core facts are stated. Other details can still matter, so continue with the qualification, mobility, employer and application checks below.
Unknown information is never converted into a negative score. The questions above exist to prevent missing evidence from being mistaken for a favorable term.
Decision levers
What could make or break the fit?
Reasons to look closer
- Pay compares strongly with similar current roles: The annualized midpoint is around the 79th percentile among 102 comparable USD salary observations.
Trade-offs to weigh
- Location rules could change the fit: Work-related travel is required or expected.
Questions worth asking before you invest more time
- Confirm whether a degree is actually required, preferred, or replaceable with equivalent experience.
- Confirm the actual minimum experience requirement rather than assuming preferred background is mandatory.
- Ask whether visa sponsorship is available before investing significant time in the application.
These questions come from details the listing leaves open. An unanswered point is not treated as a disadvantage.
Opportunity neighborhood
Keep your options open
These live roles sit close enough to this opportunity to make useful comparison points. Look across several employers before deciding what pay, flexibility or access trade-offs you are willing to accept.
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This neighborhood is drawn from current inventory in the same broad occupation. Similarity is based on explicit listing facts; missing details do not count against a job.
Role market context
How much current choice is visible around this kind of work?
This compares the vacancy with current High Paid Job inventory in the broad Sales roles family. It describes visible choice and disclosure, not future demand or career quality.
200 most recent current roles sampled for the disclosure measures below.
Distinct employers in the bounded current sample, not an estimate of all employers hiring in the market.
Current sampled roles stating at least four of the five Core Decision Facts.
Requires a numeric amount, explicit ISO currency and supported pay period.
Listings with explicit enough remote, hybrid or on-site evidence to classify.
Missing deadline evidence remains unknown and is not interpreted as an open-ended application window.
Currencies with explicit pay evidence in the sample: USD (38) · EUR (7) · CHF (3) · GBP (2). Raw amounts across different currencies are not compared.
This describes current visible High Paid Job inventory in the same broad occupation family. Percentages use a bounded recent sample and are not a forecast, a complete labor-market census or an employer-quality measure.
Constraint opportunity lab
What changes the size of the current opportunity pool?
Each line applies one stricter evidence-based constraint to the same bounded current role-family sample. It helps you see the trade-off in visible choice without deciding which trade-off is right for you.
Counts only affirmative or possible sponsorship evidence, or relocation explicitly offered. Unknown is not treated as no.
Only same-currency opportunities with usable annualized pay enter this comparison. Other currencies are not converted or treated as lower.
A much stricter subset: only listings with explicit worldwide-remote evidence remain.
Requires amount, explicit ISO currency and a supported pay period. Missing pay evidence remains unknown.
Shows the subset with enough stated evidence for a more informed first comparison.
Counts roles explicitly classified as worldwide remote, region-restricted remote or remote with restrictions still unclear.
Includes roles whose seniority is genuinely unspecified rather than assuming they belong to another level.
Uses only roles with a stated employment type.
These are counterfactual filters over a bounded sample of current HPJ inventory in the same broad occupation family. They show how visible choice changes when one evidence-based constraint is applied; they do not tell you which constraint you should choose or predict hiring outcomes. The calculation uses the 200 most recent current roles from 3106 visible roles in this broad family.
Salary transparency context
Is pay disclosure typical for this kind of role?
This listing states usable structured compensation. About 26% of the bounded current role sample does the same.
Compensation counts only when amount, ISO currency and supported pay period are all known.
Pay disclosure is limited in the current role sample.
This employer’s current visible listings disclose pay materially more often than the current same-role sample.
This compares salary-disclosure behavior in current visible listings. It does not compare raw salary amounts across currencies, infer undisclosed pay as zero, or rate employer quality.
Private offer & negotiation lab
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Negotiation evidence available: advertised pay range, current same-currency market context, strong decision evidence.
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Review the full package · 10 terms
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Usable advertised compensation is available.
Variable compensation is mentioned; verify amount, formula, target and eligibility.
Equity or long-term incentive language is mentioned; verify grant type, vesting and valuation basis.
Retirement or pension benefits are mentioned; verify employer contribution and vesting.
Health-benefit language is mentioned; verify coverage, dependants and employee cost.
Paid-leave language is mentioned; verify the exact entitlement and carry-over rules.
A work-arrangement signal is available; verify schedule details before relying on it.
Relocation support not established
Sponsorship not established
A review cycle is mentioned; verify timing and whether compensation can change at that review.
Questions worth taking into the offer conversation
- Is there a bonus, commission or other variable-pay component, and how is it calculated?
- If relocation is relevant, what expenses, timing and repayment conditions are covered?
- What exact sponsorship or work-authorization conditions apply to this role?
- When is the first performance and compensation review after joining?
Occupation intelligence
What broader career references connect to this role?
HPJ uses broad comparison families for current-market analysis. External taxonomy results are reference candidates for that broad family, not a declaration that this vacancy has been authoritatively classified into a specific occupation.
European occupation references
- commercial sales representative
- technical sales representative
- technical sales representative in hardware, plumbing and heating equipment
- medical sales representative
- technical sales representative in chemical products
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
U.S. occupation references
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 41-4011.00
- Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel 41-3091.00
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products 41-4012.00
- Real Estate Sales Agents 41-9022.00
- Solar Sales Representatives and Assessors 41-4011.07
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Career reference research
Skills worth investigating
Official occupational context, paired with exact phrases visible in this vacancy. It is not a skills test or an applicant-fit score.
ESCO · European occupation
commercial sales representative
Usually essential in this ESCO occupation
- respond to customers' inquiries
- produce sales reports
- demonstrate motivation for sales
- implement customer follow-up
- communicate with customers
- have computer literacy
- prospect new customers
Context-dependent ESCO skills
- media formats
- chemical products
- provide advertisement samples
- apply social media marketing
- office equipment
O*NET · U.S. occupation
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
O*NET occupation skills
- Persuasion
- Speaking
- Active Listening
- Negotiation
- Social Perceptiveness
- Reading Comprehension
- Service Orientation
- CoordinationPhrase in listing
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Adjacent current roles to investigate
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same employment type · similar work-arrangement evidenceAdjacent-family roles are exploration prompts from current HPJ inventory. They are not inferred qualification matches and they do not imply a promotion path.
Career move map
What sits one step away?
This listing is currently read as Senior / lead. Nearby roles one visible seniority step away can help you judge whether to widen the search, stretch upward or compare the responsibilities more carefully.
Broader-entry direction
Inside Sales Representative – Bangalore, India
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USD 110,000–130,000 / year Similar work arrangement · Same employment type · Recently posted Advertised midpoint is about 36% lowerStretch direction
Director Business Development, Medical Affairs
Red Nucleus · Remote — Worldwide
USD 110,000–160,000 / year Similar work arrangement · Same employment type · Recently posted Advertised midpoint is about 28% lowerEnterprise Account Executive
Axiom · USA
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Skill bridge
What does this role connect to?
Salesforce is one of the signals this listing shares with skills appearing often across current Sales roles opportunities.
Skills named in this listing
Shared with the current career sample
- Salesforce Seen in 38 sampled listings
Application edge
- If these skills match your background, prepare one concrete example that shows how you used Salesforce rather than relying on a keyword-only claim.
If the named skills are genuinely transferable in your own experience, the occupation map also points to adjacent current families worth researching: Customer success & support roles and Marketing roles. This is exploration context, not a qualification match.
Skill signals come from explicit text mentions. A mention is not automatically a requirement, and absence from the current top-skill list does not make a skill rare or unimportant. The current career comparison draws on 120 sampled listings; 70 contain a recognized skill signal.
Application Decision Lab
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Salesforce
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Questions worth resolving before you rely on the opportunity
- Work authorization / sponsorship: If sponsorship or work authorization matters to you, what exact immigration or employer-sponsorship conditions apply to this role?
- Application process: What interview, assessment, portfolio, reference or screening stages are part of the hiring process?
Decision analysis
What the listing really tells you
Lead Sales Development Representative - Remote - Location in Bay Area, CA (San at TE Connectivity becomes easier to judge once compensation has enough depth for comparison, remote flexibility can be weighed properly, and the application route gives a few useful clues are viewed together. Here is the current read from the information available.
Compensation has enough depth for comparison
The annualized midpoint sits near the 79th percentile within 102 comparable USD salary observations. Treat that as current advertised-pay context rather than a forecast of take-home or total compensation.
Remote flexibility can be weighed properly
The work-location pattern is “Highly location-flexible”, with Remote Freedom at 88/100. One practical limit to notice is work-related travel is required or expected..
The application route gives a few useful clues
Provider-mediated application path. The external application may contain additional steps that are not visible from the listing itself.
The listing can be traced to a current source
The opportunity currently has 1 renewable source path across 1 source classes. Multiple independent paths can strengthen continuity, but they are not a substitute for checking the application destination.
How this analysis is assembled
This read combines the structured details currently available for pay, flexibility, qualifications, mobility, application effort and source continuity. Missing facts are left open for you to verify.
Analysis evidence coverage
How much analysis can the current evidence support?
Uses the explainable High Pay Score within the job’s current occupation/seniority/currency comparison sample.
Measures observable location flexibility and explicit restrictions; it does not determine whether remote work is personally desirable.
The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
The listing was posted about 1 days ago.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
There is no universal opportunity score because pay, flexibility and access matter differently to different people. Compare Jobs lets you weight the evidence around your own priorities.
Decision checklist
What is supported, uncertain or worth checking?
This checklist separates supported strengths, visible cautions and missing evidence. It is not an overall recommendation or guarantee that the job is suitable for you.
Supported strengths
- Advertised pay is above much of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
- The available work-location evidence indicates strong location flexibility.
Visible cautions
- Work-related travel is required or expected.
- The description appears to require or expect work-related travel. Check the frequency and whether travel time or expenses materially affect the role.
Still unknown
- Visa sponsorship is not established by the available listing data.
Pay vs. barriers
Strong pay with stated barriers to weigh
Pay compares strongly, but qualification or location constraints are also visible. Higher pay does not erase those practical requirements.
Comparable disclosed-pay evidence places this job at about 79 / 100 within its current occupation/seniority sample.
1 explicit Remote Freedom restriction signal is present and is shown separately from qualification requirements.
- Education requirement is not established.
- Required prior-experience level is not established.
This section weighs pay context against clearly stated barriers without collapsing unlike requirements into one universal score. Degree, experience, licensing, clearance and location limits remain separate, and missing qualification details stay unknown.
Beyond the headline
Strong multidimensional signals
The role combines a strong current pay position with at least one clear non-pay advantage. Whether that makes it a better choice depends on your priorities.
The annualized salary midpoint is at or above about 79% of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
The observable Remote Freedom evidence is strong and contains few explicit restriction signals.
Still check: The current application path is provider-mediated rather than directly classified as an employer-authorized or official route.
Hidden Value is an experimental evidence summary, not an investment-style score or guarantee of employability. It only uses explicit current listing evidence and does not infer that an unmentioned qualification is unnecessary.
Explainable opportunity highlight
Why this opportunity stands out
These are supported signals from the current listing and comparison sample—not a guarantee that this is the best job for you.
Its annualized salary midpoint is at or above about 79% of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
The source provides structured salary information with a comparatively focused range, improving the usefulness of pay comparisons.
The observable work-location signals indicate unusually strong location flexibility.
The listing was posted about 1 days ago.
Compensation intelligence
How competitive is this pay?
Above-market pay in current sample
The annualized midpoint is above the 75th percentile boundary of the current comparable sample.
The highlighted band is the middle 50% of the current comparable sample after the outlier guard. The dark marker is this job’s annualized salary midpoint.
Why this analysis?
- This score reflects the current advertised-pay distribution for comparable active jobs in the same currency. It measures pay position, not overall job quality.
- Salary confidence: High. The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
- Range quality: Focused salary range.
Employer compensation communication
Pay transparency at TE Connectivity
Good current pay transparency
This score uses the employer’s current visible listings and combines how often pay is disclosed with how useful those ranges are. Bonus, equity and benefit mentions are shown separately and do not raise the score.
This pattern comes from the employer’s current visible vacancies. It describes hiring and pay transparency in those listings, not employee satisfaction or a permanent judgement of the employer.
Current employer intelligence
TE Connectivity — current opportunity snapshot
Employer Evidence Profile
How often this employer’s current visible sampled vacancies state decision-critical information. These percentages describe evidence coverage, not employer quality.
Current sampled listings with advertised compensation evidence.
Current sampled listings whose work arrangement is clearer than unknown.
Current sampled listings with a supported country signal.
Current sampled listings with an explicit closing time.
Current sampled listings with a usable posting date.
Current sampled listings that explicitly indicate confirmed, possible or unavailable sponsorship evidence.
Current sampled listings with an explicit relocation signal.
Low coverage means the current visible listings state the information less often. It does not prove that the employer lacks the policy, benefit or support.
Common current occupation families: Product (4) · Sales (3) · Marketing (1)
Visible seniority mix: Mid-career (1) · Senior / lead (5)
Current employment-type mix: Full time (9)
Most visible hiring countries in this sample: United States (4)
Other current roles from this employer
ANALYST DIGITAL MARKETING IV (Remote) IV
USA
Senior / lead · Region-restricted remoteUSD 116,300–174,400 / yearAccount Manager IV (Remote in Bay Area, CA)
USA
Seniority not clearly specified · Region-restricted remoteUSD 167,000–209,000 / yearSr. Manager Sales Inventory Operations Planning - Remote in the United States (#
Remote — Worldwide
Senior / lead · Worldwide remoteUSD 149,700–187,100 / yearPRODUCT MANAGER II (Remote West Coast, USA or Austin, TX) (#, PA, US, #)
Remote — Worldwide
Mid-career · Worldwide remoteUSD 82,000–123,000 / yearThese are other current vacancies visible from the same employer, not endorsements or evidence of future hiring plans.
Current disclosed salary medians by currency
- USD 157,550 median · 6 disclosed salaries
Questions worth asking this employer
- If work authorization matters to you, what sponsorship policy applies to this specific role and location?
- If a move is required, is relocation assistance available for this position?
These questions are prompted by missing or thin evidence in the employer’s current visible vacancies. Missing evidence is not treated as a negative judgement.
This employer snapshot uses the employer’s current visible listings. Remote and sponsorship rates use only vacancies with explicit evidence, while missing information stays unknown. Salary medians are shown separately by currency and need at least five disclosed salaries. Zero confirmed sponsorship means none was explicitly found in this sample, not that sponsorship is unavailable.
This snapshot describes the employer’s current visible vacancies—things such as pay disclosure and work arrangement. It is not an employee-satisfaction or hiring-quality rating, and different currencies stay separate.
Work-location intelligence
Remote Freedom
Highly location-flexible
Why this score?
- The source describes the role as open worldwide or globally.
Location restrictions detected
- Work-related travel is required or expected.
Flexibility signals detected
- Worldwide or global remote eligibility is explicitly indicated.
Remote Freedom measures observable location flexibility only. Unknown work-location information remains unscored. Timezone wording is penalized only when it appears restrictive; general collaboration across time zones is not treated as a restriction. A score does not guarantee legal work eligibility, payroll availability or visa sponsorship.
International applicant intelligence
Visa & relocation signals
Sponsorship status is shown only when the listing provides clear enough wording. Employer history or headquarters location is not used to guess an answer.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough sponsorship statement.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough relocation statement.
Tradeoff check
What’s the catch?
These are visible conditions worth checking before treating the headline compensation as the whole story:
- The description appears to require or expect work-related travel. Check the frequency and whether travel time or expenses materially affect the role.
Current alternatives
Better-paying alternatives
These current roles show a materially higher annualized salary midpoint in the same broad occupation and currency. Similar seniority, country, work arrangement, employment type and recency are preferred where possible; higher pay alone does not make an alternative a better fit.
Account Executive, SLED (West)
Dataminr · Remote — Worldwide
USD 231,200–340,000 / year Worldwide remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Similar work-location arrangement · Same employment type
Senior Principal, Sales Compensation Design & Strategy
Cloudflare, Inc. · USA
USD 200,000–317,000 / year Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Similar work-location arrangement · Same employment type
Senior Account Executive (Enterprise)
Artemis · Remote
USD 320,000–360,000 / year Remote — restrictions unclearWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Similar work-location arrangement · Same employment type
Alternatives are drawn from the current inventory rather than presented as application recommendations. A pay difference needs to be meaningful—about 3% or more at the midpoint—and different currencies are not compared.
Application-path intelligence
What can we see about the application process?
Provider-mediated application path
The current application path comes through a publisher or aggregator. The destination may still lead to an employer-authorized hiring system, but that is not clear enough to assume.
Current destination: himalayas.app · HTTPS
No additional required application step is clear in the available listing text. This does not mean the external application is one-click or friction-free.
Application effort is estimated from visible listing and source details. Optional steps are kept separate from mandatory ones, and the external form may contain additional requirements that are not visible here.
Application safety context
Application safety check
Basic application-safety context available
The current application destination has a basic transport-safety signal such as HTTPS. This does not verify the employer, vacancy, recruiter or application process.
Evidence checked: Source provenance · Application destination · Listing wording
Observable transport-safety signals
- The available application destination uses HTTPS.
Before you share money or sensitive information
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- Check that recruiter email domains and application destinations are consistent with the employer or an identifiable recruiting provider.
- Do not pay application, processing, training or equipment fees merely to be considered for a job.
- Do not send cryptocurrency, gift cards, online-banking credentials or PINs as part of an application.
- Treat unusually fast offers or interviews conducted only through informal messaging channels as reasons to verify the employer independently.
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Original listing details
The section below comes from the listing source. The decision sections above use the job’s structured pay, location, qualification, mobility and application details to give you additional context.
At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.
Job Overview
This role is based out of the San Francisco Bay Area (preferred) or Seattle, Washington ONLY
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.
Learn more at and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat and Twitter.
Position Scope and Responsibilities
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 engineering team in the San Jose Bay Area and Austin TX.
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. The role will appeal to those with aspirations for further personal and career growth as the business seeks to further enhance their bench-strength for succession.
Responsibilities
The Hyperscale Account Manager will have direct responsibility for developing and maintaining customer relationships in the US and overseas. Primarily, this individual will be a growth driver through customer driven strategies.
Specific responsibilities include:
Strategic Account Management
o Develop, continually adjust and execute strategic plans to globally manage and grow Meta.
o Serve as the primary point of contact for key stakeholders.
o Build and maintain long-term credibility and relationships.
o Develop and lead senior level customer relationships.
Business Development
o Identify new business opportunities, strategies and partnerships.
o Collaborate with TE Product Management, Engineering, System Architecture and Marketing teams to tailor solutions that meet client needs and expand market share
Market Analysis
o Keep abreast of industry trends, market conditions, and competitive activities. Adjust strategies accordingly to maintain a competitive edge and anticipate customer needs.
Customer Engagement
o Maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships by understanding their business needs and technical requirements.
o Enhance customer satisfaction and retention through superior service and support.
o Engage with customer and various eco-system partners to identify the largest market trends in AI and high-speed computing that will accelerate growth of our DDN business.
o Identify and respond to key customers’ needs, effectively converting the current sales funnel into realized customer wins.
Delivering Revenue Targets
o Achieve and exceed annual global sales targets within the assigned account.
o Develop a robust sales pipeline, forecast sales, and track key account metrics.
o Own and convert opportunities into tangible results to deliver profitable growth for DDN.
o Increase sales revenue and market share, continually expand into account and grow customer relationships with weekly in-person customer meetings.
Collaboration
o Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, system architecture and customer service to ensure a cohesive and effective sales strategy. Some evening communication with Asia will be required on a weekly basis.
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:
o 10 years Tier 1 sales experience, with at least 5 years successfully leading sales teams (direct reports).
o Experience in the AI or high-speed computing industry
o Knowledge of interconnect products and related manufacturing exposure.
o Proven sales experience of meeting or exceeding targets.
o Prior experience in Hyperscale data center sales with a deep understanding of cloud ecosystems.
o Track record of building strategic opportunities, negotiating and closing large technology-oriented contracts.
o Skilled at communicating and leveraging value propositions.
o Ability to understand the big picture, uncover customer needs and translate into selling opportunities.
o Experience in negotiating Legal contracts to drive desired business agreement results.
o Strong business sense and industry expertise with a hunting mentality.
o Career progression capability and aspiration.
o Strong familiarity with CRM tools and systems (Salesforce) desirable.
o Technical aptitude / engineering undergraduate degree required.
o 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:
o 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.
o Delivery and Results Oriented: The ability to find solutions and generate results in a dynamic environment.
o 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.
o Communications Skills: Comfortable communicating both formally and informally with senior executives.
o Adaptability: Able to thrive in a fast-paced global environment where flexibility, resilience, comfort with ambiguity and adaptability to change are needed.
Education
Undergraduate degree in engineering is required. An advanced degree, such as a Master of Business Administration degree, is desirable.
Competencies
SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.
Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat,Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
COMPENSATION
• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $167,500- 209,300 (subject to change dependent on physical location)
• Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
• Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits
BENEFITS
• A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.
EOE, Including Disability/Vets
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Originally posted on Himalayas
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Listing source: Himalayas. Destination: himalayas.app. The application opens in a new tab so you can keep this report open.