What's a typical career path for a sales professional?
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Adobe Director, Adobe Sales Academy • 2y
According to all the websites and experts, a typical career path for a sales professional is to move from BDR to AE to Sales Manager, or a variation of this, and that can...
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Carta Senior Director of Sales - Venture Capital at Carta • 1y
I don’t believe there’s a single "right" career path for a sales professional. Sales is an incredible foundation that can lead to countless opportunities because the skil...
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Braze APAC Vice President of Sales • 3y
I stronly believe that sales people are one of the most likely people to get to the highest position in any business right upto the role of a CEO. In fact, many CEOs in g...
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SurveyMonkey Director, Expansion Sales • 10mo
I would think this varies dependent on the industry and company size. It's also important to note that not everyone wants to be a manager as well. Here is an overview of ...
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RocketReach VP, Sales • 2y
I wish I could say there was a typical path but it is not often the case.If you were stay within the same company, and want to go the individual contributor (IC) track, y...
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HubSpot Senior Director of Sales | Midmarket • 1y
There are two primary paths for sales professionals who want to continue to level up in sales. The individual contributor path and the management path. Individual contrib...
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Bluevine Head of Sales, Lending & Credit • 3mo
A typical career path for someone that wants to stay as an individual contributor (IC) looks like this: SDR, SMB Account Executive, Mid Market Account Executive, Enterpri...
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