What C-level Sales Jobs Ask For
Across 3,092 open C-level Sales postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are business-development, ai, crm.
Updated October 28, 2026
3,370 open C-level Sales postings. The percentages below are measured over the 3,092 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| business-development | 41% |
| ai | 32% |
| crm | 32% |
| go-to-market | 27% |
| salesforce | 24% |
| saas | 21% |
| analytics | 16% |
| pipeline-management | 16% |
| account-executive | 12% |
| cloud | 12% |
| automation | 11% |
| performance-management | 10% |
| lead-generation | 8% |
| agentic-ai | 8% |
| hubspot | 7% |
| stakeholder-management | 7% |
| networking | 7% |
| strategic-planning | 7% |
| sales-enablement | 5% |
| cybersecurity | 5% |
| fintech | 5% |
| ecommerce | 5% |
| pre-sales | 4% |
| demand-generation | 4% |
| machine-learning | 4% |
| api | 4% |
| contract-negotiation | 3% |
| sales-engineering | 3% |
| customer-retention | 3% |
| data-quality | 3% |
| corrective-action | 2% |
| data-analytics | 2% |
| erp | 2% |
| gdpr | 2% |
| sql | 2% |
| llm | 2% |
| solution-design | 2% |
| zoominfo | 2% |
| aws | 2% |
| linkedin-sales-navigator | 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 3,370 open C-level Sales jobs →
Across all Sales levels
Most Sales postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- business-development 30,420
- crm 25,501
- ai 23,973
- salesforce 21,218
- account-executive 16,417
- personal-protective-equipment 13,853
- saas 13,011
- cloud 10,406
- go-to-market 9,371
- lead-generation 8,911
- networking 8,764
- analytics 7,218