What C-level Sales Jobs Ask For
Across 5,648 open C-level Sales postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are business-development, crm, ai.
Updated October 5, 2026
7,010 open C-level Sales postings. The percentages below are measured over the 5,648 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| business-development | 44% |
| crm | 33% |
| ai | 26% |
| go-to-market | 26% |
| salesforce | 23% |
| saas | 18% |
| pipeline-management | 16% |
| analytics | 16% |
| performance-management | 11% |
| cloud | 11% |
| account-executive | 10% |
| automation | 10% |
| lead-generation | 10% |
| networking | 8% |
| strategic-planning | 7% |
| hubspot | 7% |
| stakeholder-management | 7% |
| agentic-ai | 6% |
| sales-enablement | 5% |
| ecommerce | 5% |
| fintech | 4% |
| cybersecurity | 4% |
| pre-sales | 4% |
| demand-generation | 4% |
| contract-negotiation | 3% |
| machine-learning | 3% |
| corrective-action | 3% |
| api | 3% |
| customer-retention | 3% |
| succession-planning | 2% |
| erp | 2% |
| data-analytics | 2% |
| data-quality | 2% |
| sales-engineering | 2% |
| aws | 2% |
| agile | 2% |
| accessibility | 2% |
| linkedin-sales-navigator | 2% |
| solution-design | 2% |
| process-improvement | 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 7,010 open C-level Sales jobs →
Across all Sales levels
Most Sales postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- business-development 65,447
- crm 47,043
- salesforce 38,393
- ai 35,046
- account-executive 29,358
- saas 21,661
- lead-generation 20,050
- cloud 16,968
- go-to-market 15,425
- networking 14,434
- analytics 13,781
- pipeline-management 13,033