What Senior Sales Jobs Ask For
Across 16,784 open Senior Sales postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are business-development, ai, crm.
Updated September 18, 2026
23,108 open Senior Sales postings. The percentages below are measured over the 16,784 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| business-development | 38% |
| ai | 28% |
| crm | 26% |
| salesforce | 23% |
| account-executive | 23% |
| saas | 17% |
| cloud | 15% |
| go-to-market | 14% |
| analytics | 13% |
| pipeline-management | 10% |
| networking | 9% |
| automation | 9% |
| lead-generation | 8% |
| stakeholder-management | 7% |
| pre-sales | 5% |
| strategic-planning | 5% |
| agentic-ai | 5% |
| cybersecurity | 5% |
| hubspot | 5% |
| ecommerce | 4% |
| fintech | 4% |
| aws | 3% |
| sales-enablement | 3% |
| performance-management | 3% |
| machine-learning | 3% |
| api | 3% |
| erp | 3% |
| data-analytics | 3% |
| demand-generation | 3% |
| customer-retention | 2% |
| sql | 2% |
| agile | 2% |
| linkedin-sales-navigator | 2% |
| sales-engineering | 2% |
| sap | 2% |
| process-improvement | 2% |
| contract-negotiation | 2% |
| tableau | 2% |
| powerbi | 2% |
| generative-ai | 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 23,108 open Senior Sales jobs →
Across all Sales levels
Most Sales postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- business-development 63,137
- crm 45,013
- salesforce 37,108
- ai 33,657
- account-executive 28,763
- saas 21,337
- lead-generation 19,717
- cloud 16,361
- go-to-market 15,216
- networking 13,641
- analytics 13,069
- pipeline-management 12,461