What C-level Sales Jobs Ask For
Across 7,106 open C-level Sales postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are business-development, crm, ai.
Updated November 5, 2026
9,253 open C-level Sales postings. The percentages below are measured over the 7,106 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| business-development | 46% |
| crm | 32% |
| ai | 24% |
| go-to-market | 23% |
| salesforce | 22% |
| saas | 17% |
| pipeline-management | 15% |
| analytics | 15% |
| account-executive | 11% |
| performance-management | 10% |
| cloud | 10% |
| automation | 10% |
| lead-generation | 9% |
| stakeholder-management | 8% |
| hubspot | 7% |
| networking | 7% |
| strategic-planning | 7% |
| agentic-ai | 6% |
| ecommerce | 5% |
| sales-enablement | 4% |
| pre-sales | 4% |
| cybersecurity | 4% |
| fintech | 4% |
| corrective-action | 3% |
| demand-generation | 3% |
| contract-negotiation | 3% |
| customer-retention | 3% |
| machine-learning | 3% |
| api | 3% |
| erp | 2% |
| data-analytics | 2% |
| data-quality | 2% |
| sales-engineering | 2% |
| succession-planning | 2% |
| business-intelligence | 2% |
| linkedin-sales-navigator | 2% |
| solution-design | 2% |
| aws | 2% |
| agile | 2% |
| powerbi | 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 9,253 open C-level Sales jobs →
Across all Sales levels
Most Sales postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- business-development 87,290
- crm 63,176
- salesforce 46,139
- ai 42,420
- account-executive 32,257
- lead-generation 28,931
- saas 24,752
- personal-protective-equipment 21,554
- cloud 20,463
- networking 19,757
- go-to-market 18,030
- analytics 16,056