Key Account Manager- Data Center

Midea-Group; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Midea America Corp. in the United States is seeking a seasoned Key Account Manager to drive strategic sales with hyperscalers and data-center customers. You will coordinate cross-functional teams and tailor cooling solutions to complex projects.

The role requires deep knowledge of data center cooling architectures and strong negotiation skills, with travel as needed to support global accounts. You will report to the leadership in Dallas and help expand Midea's enterprise footprint.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in related fields.
• 5+ years sales in data center or HVAC sectors.
• Experience with Hyperscaler, Colo, AI Infra, EPC, or large integrators.
• Familiar with data center refrigeration architecture and high-density cooling.
• Strong client development, negotiation, and project execution skills.
• Ability to collaborate across sales, technical, delivery, and legal teams.
• English working language; overseas travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate key overseas data center client relationships to meet sales targets.
• Engage Hyperscaler, Colo, AI infra and ecosystem customers with integrated cooling solutions.
• Understand refrigeration architecture, power density, liquid/air cooling, energy efficiency.
• Lead business advancement, price negotiations, contracts, and order execution.
• Coordinate internal resources to ensure smooth project delivery.
• Maintain customer relationships and drive renewals and multi-category sales.
• Build customer maps and track market trends to expand platform opportunities.

Skills

Data center sales

Hyperscaler experience

Cross-functional collaboration

English proficiency

Project leadership

Negotiation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

HVAC/refrigeration related field

Job description

Key Account Manager

About Midea America

Midea America Corp. is a U.S. subsidiary within Midea Group, the Fortune 500 giant known for making life easier for millions around the globe. As the world’s top maker of home appliances, Midea is proud of its 166,000+ employees and presence in 200+ countries, including here in the U.S.

Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., with an innovation hub in Louisville, Kentucky, Midea America is dedicated to providing practical innovations that surprise and delight, creating moments to cherish at home.

Midea's lineup of appliances - from refrigerators to air conditioners, laundry solutions and floor care - are high quality, reliable, and affordable. By thoughtfully engineering performance, convenience, and design into every product, Midea delivers on the promise of every appliance to make your life a little easier.

Job Responsibilities

• 1. Responsible for developing and operating key overseas data center clients, achieving annual sales targets and key project implementation targets.
• 2. Focus on Hyperscaler, Colo, AI infrastructure customers, as well as ecosystem customers such as EPC and system integrators, promoting the introduction of temperature control products and comprehensive solutions.
• 3. Deeply understand customer needs in refrigeration architecture, power density, liquid/air cooling configurations, energy efficiency, redundancy levels, and reliability, driving solution matching and project transformation.
• 4. Lead the business advancement, client communication, price negotiations, contract signing, and order implementation of key projects, promoting closed-loop management from business opportunities to payment collection.
• 5. Coordinate internal resources such as technical, delivery, after-sales, product, legal, and regional teams to ensure the smooth execution of key projects.
• 6. Continuously maintain customer relationships, track customer lifecycles, and drive renewals, expansions, and multi-category sales opportunities.
• 7. Based on client and project situations, accumulate customer maps, project opportunities, competitive information, and industry trends to support platform business expansion.

Qualifications

• 1. Bachelor's degree or above, preferably in HVAC, refrigeration, energy power, electrical, automation, mechatronics, or related fields.
• 2. At least 5 years of sales experience in data center, HVAC temperature control, central air conditioning, liquid cooling, or related industries.
• 3. Experience in client development with Hyperscaler, Colo, AI Infra, EPC, or large system integrators is preferred.
• 4. Familiar with data center refrigeration system architecture, familiar with high-density computing power, liquid-cooled CDU, air/water cooling application scenarios.
• 5. Strong ability to develop clients, business negotiations, and project advancement, able to independently drive the implementation of key clients and key projects.
• 6. Strong cross-departmental collaboration and resource integration skills, able to work efficiently with sales, technical, delivery, and customer teams.
• 7. English can be used as the working language, supporting overseas client communication, business communication, and cross-regional collaboration; Overseas local employment may be suitable for overseas business trips.

Priority conditions:

• 1. Experience with clients such as Google, Microsoft, AWS, Meta, Oracle, OpenAI, NVIDIA is preferred.
• 2. Candidates with experience in selling integrated solutions for both primary and secondary sides are preferred.
• 3. Experience in service consultants, EPCs, general contractors, or large integrator projects is preferred.
• 4. Candidates with sales experience in liquid cooling, CDU, air walls, fan walls, precision air conditioning, or large cold stations are preferred.

Comprehensive benefit package, to learn more, please visit Careers Page (midea.com)

Midea America Corp. is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.