Koch Industries

Technical Sales Engineer- Datacom

Koch Industries$110K — $130K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, or related technical discipline
  • Sales/Account Management experience
  • Experience with components, interconnect, or related solutions
  • Experience working with OEMs designing datacom products

Responsibilities

  • Provide innovative solutions to customer application opportunities using Molex products
  • Lead projects with product management and engineering for customer programs
  • Develop and maintain engineering relationships across assigned business units
  • Manage focused business units at customers to exceed revenue targets
  • Provide technical feedback including collateral like 3D modeling and product specifications
  • Support current project initiatives from the Account Management Team
  • Document sales activity and manage pipeline in CRM tool
  • Identify revenue opportunities and coordinate with business units for support
  • Understand individual strategic business plans of customers
  • Develop expertise in market and products

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance, ADD, and disability support
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Infertility assistance and paid parental leave options
  • Adoption assistance
Full Job Description
The Molex Sales Team in Fremont is seeking a Technical Sales Engineer to drive and deepen the relationship with key strategic datacom customers. In this role, you will provide technical expertise and customer-facing support while helping shape Molex's position in datacenter networking and AI applications. The Technical Sales Engineer will partner closely with the Account Management team to build mutually beneficial relationships with customers' Engineering, Global Supply Management, and Component Engineering teams. This person will collaborate cross-functionally to support the design-in of Molex products, lead internal discussions with design engineers and product managers, recommend interconnect systems and solutions, resolve mechanical design and application challenges related to high-speed products, and provide valuable insights into the competitive landscape, market trends, customer systems, and key processes.

This person will work closely with customer engineering and program development teams to support the delivery of high-value products while demonstrating a high level of customer service, responsiveness, and accountability. The Technical Sales Engineer will be expected to develop a strong understanding of the customer's business units, product roadmap, and evolving technology needs.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience with component product knowledge and a good aptitude to drive conversations interconnect packaging/total solutions. We will provide the knowledge transfer and formal training in products and systems to enable this Technical Sales Engineer to be successful.

Molex is a top supplier to these customers for interconnects, cable assemblies, fiber optics and other products.
  • Provide innovative solutions to customer application opportunities utilizing the broad portfolio of Molex offerings
  • Lead projects with product management and product engineering teams for customer programs
  • Develop and maintain new engineering relationships in all of your assigned business units, and continually develop technical product skills to effectively sell a wide breadth of Molex offerings.
  • Manage focused business units at customer to achieve or surpass assigned revenue targets
  • Provide technical feedback to Customers and Account Management team including collateral (3D modeling, renderings, drawing, product specs)
  • Support current project initiatives by the Account Management Team
  • Track and document sales activity and pipeline in our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool.
  • Find desirable revenue opportunities and present to Business Units for necessary support
  • Track and coordinate demand creation business transitioned to other parts of the world to assure Molex captures this business
  • Understanding this customer's individual strategic business plans for each applicable business unit
  • Development professional expertise by becoming a market and product expert


Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business or related technical discipline
  • Sales/Account Management experience
  • Experience with Components, interconnect or related solutions
  • Experience working with OEM's that design in datacom products

For this role, we anticipate paying $110,000- $130,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form .

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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