What C-level Sales Jobs Ask For
Across 905 open C-level Sales postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are ai, salesforce, business-development.
Updated November 1, 2026
1,118 open C-level Sales postings. The percentages below are measured over the 905 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| ai | 38% |
| salesforce | 32% |
| business-development | 32% |
| crm | 31% |
| account-executive | 31% |
| saas | 29% |
| go-to-market | 23% |
| cloud | 15% |
| pipeline-management | 14% |
| analytics | 12% |
| automation | 10% |
| hubspot | 9% |
| networking | 9% |
| lead-generation | 9% |
| agentic-ai | 9% |
| performance-management | 7% |
| sales-engineering | 6% |
| cybersecurity | 5% |
| fintech | 5% |
| machine-learning | 5% |
| pre-sales | 5% |
| sales-enablement | 5% |
| gdpr | 5% |
| stakeholder-management | 5% |
| contract-negotiation | 4% |
| ccpa | 4% |
| agile | 3% |
| ecommerce | 3% |
| zoom | 3% |
| zoominfo | 3% |
| linkedin-sales-navigator | 3% |
| slack | 3% |
| strategic-planning | 3% |
| corrective-action | 3% |
| data-quality | 3% |
| demand-generation | 3% |
| anthropic | 2% |
| observability | 2% |
| api | 2% |
| aws | 2% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
Browse 1,118 open C-level Sales jobs →
Across all Sales levels
Most Sales postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- business-development 5,111
- ai 4,618
- crm 4,101
- salesforce 3,378
- saas 3,003
- account-executive 2,995
- cloud 2,107
- go-to-market 1,931
- analytics 1,295
- hubspot 1,279
- lead-generation 1,257
- automation 1,180