Sales Job Hunter

Tech Sales Job Market Report · Edition 2

Tech sales jobs this week: Oct 8, 2026

We counted 85 new US sales roles from 32 companies, 10 fewer than last week. The bigger change is the mix. SE climbed to 19% of new postings and CS fell to 9%, from 26% last week. If you sell technical products, move fast this week.

By Sales Job Hunter · Published October 8, 2026 · Data pulled October 7, 2026

85New US sales roles, last 7 days−11% vs last week
32Companies hiring
8%Entry-level share (SDR/BDR)
57%Open roles posted 45+ days agoof 1,093 open

This week's read

New postings slipped to 85 from 95, spread across 32 companies, the same count as last week. We also tracked more boards this week, so the drop per board is steeper: 57 new roles per 100 boards, down from 67. With 2 editions of data, we would not call that a trend. It does mean fewer new roles to spread your week across, so each one you go after deserves a fast, direct application.

Toast posted 18 of the 85 new roles, or 21%. 17 of its 18 were AE. Take Toast out and AE is 48% of what the other 31 companies posted. SE is 24% of that mix, CS 12% and SDR 10%. Our read: outside Toast, technical sellers got a bigger share of the postings, and the CS volume from last week did not carry over.

Enterprise appeared in 19 new titles and strategic in 10. SMB appeared in 11 and commercial in 4. More of what got posted asks for closers with bigger deals behind them. Meanwhile 57% of open roles are old posts, the same share as last week. That is a lot of listings that look live and probably are not worth your time. We would leave them alone and work the new ones.

New roles by week

95Oct 185Oct 8

What companies are hiring for

Share of the 85 US sales roles posted in the last seven days.

Account Executive58%49
Solutions & sales engineering19%16
Customer success & account management9%8
SDR / BDR (entry level)8%7
Other sales roles6%5

Account Executive

49 new AE roles, but Toast posted 17 and Klaviyo 9. Outside Toast and Klaviyo, Sysdig posted 4, and Contentful and Databricks posted 3 each. In our dozen, Databricks has a Strategic Account Executive, Space Force role, CodeRabbit has an Enterprise AE in Boston and Benchling has an SMB AE in San Francisco.

Customer success & account management

Only 8 new CS and account management roles, a thin week after a busy one. Sigma Computing posted 3. Contentful's Senior Technical Account Manager in Denver went up Oct 7, the last day of our window.

Solutions & sales engineering

16 new SE roles, up to 19% of the mix. Braze posted 3, and EliseAI, Twilio and Fivetran posted 2 each. Tailscale's Senior Solutions Engineer, Enterprise is remote US and Metriport's Senior Solutions Engineer is in San Francisco. Both went up Oct 7.

SDR / BDR (entry level)

7 new SDR and BDR roles. That is a handful, so do not read a trend into it. Culture Amp posted 2, including an Allbound SDR role in Chicago from Oct 7. 1Password, Newsela, Persona, Customer IO and Fivetran each posted 1.

Who's hiring

Toast was the top hirer again with 18 new roles, 17 of them AE, after 30 last week. Klaviyo was next with 9, all AE. Contentful, Databricks and Sysdig posted 4 each, mostly AE. Metriport posted 3, spread across AE, CS and SE. Braze, a top hirer last week with 12, showed up this week with 3 SE roles. Sigma Computing led CS with 3, and Culture Amp led SDR with 2.

What to do this week

  1. Apply to the Oct 7 roles in our dozen at Tailscale, Metriport, Databricks, Contentful, Culture Amp and Toast if they fit, within 48 hours. In our view the first applicants get read.
  2. Message the sales leader at Braze, EliseAI or Fivetran the same day you apply if you are an SE. SE rose to 19% of new postings, and we would rather reach a person than wait on the ATS.
  3. Put your largest deals and longest cycles at the top if you are an AE. Enterprise showed up in 19 new titles against 11 for SMB, and those titles ask for closers.
  4. Widen your search to technical account manager titles if you are in CS. Only 8 CS roles went up, and Contentful and Sigma Computing are where we would start.

This week's dozen

Twelve of this week's new roles, one or two per company, straight from each company's own job board. Live on October 7, 2026 — some will close quickly.

  1. Senior Technical Account ManagerContentful·Denver, Colorado, United States·Posted Oct 7
    CS / Account Management
  2. Sales Development Representative, AllboundCulture Amp·Chicago·Posted Oct 7
    SDR/BDR
  3. Strategic Account Executive, Space ForceDatabricks·Remote - California; Remote - Colorado·Posted Oct 7
    Account Executive
  4. Senior Solutions EngineerMetriport·San Francisco·Posted Oct 7
    Solutions / Sales Engineering
  5. Senior Solutions Engineer, EnterpriseTailscale·Remote (United States)·Posted Oct 7
    Solutions / Sales Engineering
  6. Territory Account Executive, Retail - Sacramento, CA (East Bay)Toast·Sacramento, CA·Posted Oct 7
    Account Executive
  7. Account Executive - Mid-Market , Boston1Password·New York, NY·Posted Oct 6
    Account Executive
  8. SMB Account ExecutiveBenchling·San Francisco, CA·Posted Oct 6
    Account Executive
  9. Enterprise Account Executive - BostonCodeRabbit·Boston, MA·Posted Oct 6
    Account Executive
  10. Partnership Integration Solutions EngineerEliseAI·New York City·Posted Oct 6
    Solutions / Sales Engineering
  11. Security Solution EngineerOpenRouter·Remote (US)·Posted Oct 6
    Solutions / Sales Engineering
  12. Sr. Solution Consultant, Financial ServicesBraze·Chicago·Posted Oct 5
    Solutions / Sales Engineering

How this is counted

149 company job boards, read directly from each company's applicant tracking system. A role counts as new if the company first published it in the seven days before October 7, 2026. US and US-remote roles only; sales titles only; people-manager roles excluded. The set skews toward venture-backed B2B software, so read this as a view of that market — not of sales hiring everywhere. Full methodology · Download this edition's data