Best sales job boards: where sales jobs are posted first, the sites that copy them, and what each is good for

Every sales job starts in one place: the employer's own hiring system, the careers page where its recruiters post the role and read the applications. Every job board you search is a copy of those postings, made sooner or later, whole or cut down, with the pay left in or taken out. So the best place to look for a sales job is wherever you see the most of those originals, soonest, with the facts you need to choose. This guide sorts the kinds of sites that carry sales jobs by what each one is good for, and what to watch for on each.

Right now this board lists 82,478 open sales roles that US candidates can take, read every 10 hours from the employers' own hiring systems, and 53% of them state their pay. The sales jobs page lists all of them, newest first, and every role links to the employer's own application.

Contents

1. The short answer
2. Where sales jobs come from
3. The big general job boards
4. Job boards for sales only
5. Startup and tech boards
6. Remote job boards
7. Recruiters and referral bounties
8. Communities and university programs
9. How to search well, wherever you search
10. Quick answers

1. The short answer

Use more than one. Search a board that reads employers' systems for breadth and pay, keep the careers pages of the five to ten companies you want most open, and let a recruiter or a referral open the doors a posting cannot.

2. Where sales jobs come from

A company hiring a seller posts the role in its applicant tracking system, the software its recruiters work in. Most companies hiring salespeople use one of a few: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, iCIMS, SmartRecruiters, Workable and a handful more. Each system publishes the open roles on the company's careers page, and that page is the original: it changes the moment a recruiter closes the role or edits the pay.

Everything else is a copy. A general job board takes the posting through a feed the system sends, through a scraper, or because a recruiter paid to promote it there. Some copies arrive within hours, some days later, and some stay up for weeks after the seat is filled. Some keep the posted pay; others drop it or replace it with their own estimate. When you compare sites, compare how fresh their copies are and whether they keep what the employer wrote.

This board reads the employers' systems themselves, every 10 hours, and keeps each role once, with the pay exactly as its posting states it. A role that closes at the employer closes here at the next read. Right now 43,747 of the US roles here carry a posted pay range, with a typical posted pay of $87.5k/yr across them.

3. The big general job boards

The large boards, Indeed, ZipRecruiter and Glassdoor among them, carry the most roles of every kind, sales included. They are the best place for local and hourly sales seats: retail and store sales, car dealerships, insurance agencies and the many small businesses that post nowhere else.

What to watch for:

• Reposts and duplicates. The same role often appears several times, posted by the employer, by a staffing firm and by other boards that copied it.
• Staleness. A listing can outlive the seat. Check the posting date, then the employer's careers page, before you spend an evening on a cover letter.
• Pay estimates. Some boards show a pay figure they estimated themselves next to the posting. Read whether a figure is the employer's or the board's.

4. Job boards for sales only

A handful of sites list only sales jobs: among them SalesJobs.com, SalesHeads, Sales Gravy's job board, and MedReps for medical sales. Their strength is focus: nothing to filter out. Their limits are size, since most carry the roles employers paid to post there, and in some cases a fee for job seekers to see every listing.

Read how each one gets its roles. A board that lists only paid postings shows you the employers who bought a slot that month; a board that reads employers' systems shows you what is open, paid or not. Today the employers with the most open sales roles here are AutoZone, Ulta Beauty, Macy's, Sally Beauty, Bath & Body Works and American Eagle Outfitters.

5. Startup and tech boards

For selling software, start where startups post. Wellfound and Y Combinator's Work at a Startup list roles at venture-backed companies, and Built In covers tech companies by city. These boards are strongest for the first sales hires at young companies: founding account executives, first SDRs and early sales leaders.

Tech sales is also where posted pay is most common, because the companies hiring are often in states that require it. US account executive roles here state a typical $118k/yr, and sales engineer roles $177k/yr. The tech sales jobs page lists the open roles at software, AI, cloud and security companies.

6. Remote job boards

Remote boards such as We Work Remotely, Remotive and Remote Rocketship list remote roles across every function, and their sales sections are a quick way to see who hires remote sellers. Most of what they carry is closing and customer work at software companies.

If you are looking for your first sales job, set your expectations: sales development seats are among the least often remote, since most companies keep new reps near a manager while they learn. Right now 272 of the 2,142 US sales development roles here are remote. The remote sales jobs page lists every remote seat by kind of work, and the remote sales jobs guide explains which seats go remote and what they pay.

7. Recruiters and referral bounties

Sales recruiting firms fill roles that never reach a job board, often account executive and leadership seats at growing companies. A recruiter is paid by the employer, so a good one is worth having on your side, but they work the roles they were hired to fill, not your whole search.

A newer route is the referral bounty: some recruiting firms publish their open sales roles and pay a reward when someone they did not already know is hired through a referral link. Roles like these appear on this board too, and our methodology says which links pay us and how that touches the order of a list.

8. Communities and university programs

Sales communities and associations often run job boards or job channels for members: revenue communities, presales and sales engineering groups, women in sales networks and inside sales associations among them. Their roles are fewer, but they come with people who can tell you what a sales floor is really like.

If you are a student, a university sales program is the strongest route into a first seat. Many business schools run professional selling programs with employer partners, sales competitions and career fairs. The entry-level sales jobs page lists the first seats open right now, and the how to get into sales guide covers the ways in.

9. How to search well, wherever you search

• Go to the original before you apply. Open the employer's careers page and check that the role is still there and says the same thing.
• Search by the seat, not just the title. Sales titles vary: one company's account executive is another's sales consultant or territory manager. Search the kind of work, and read the duties.
• Use posted pay. Where a posting states a range, that range is what the recruiter was approved to offer, and the best starting point for a negotiation. The sales salary calculator compares an offer with what similar roles post.
• Set alerts where the originals are. A role posted this morning gets most of its applications in the first days. An alert on a board that reads employers' systems every 10 hours reaches you while the role is new.
• Keep a list of target companies. Follow their careers pages directly; the company directory lists every employer on this board with its open roles.

10. Quick answers

What is the best job board for sales jobs? There is no single best one. For breadth with pay, use a board that reads employers' own hiring systems; for local and hourly sales seats, a big general board; for software startups, a startup board; and keep your target companies' careers pages open.

Where do sales jobs get posted first? On the employer's own careers page, in its applicant tracking system. Other boards copy them from there, hours or days later.

Which sales jobs show their pay? Right now 53% of the US sales roles on this board state their pay. The sales jobs that show their pay guide shows which seats, states and employers post it most.

Do I have to pay to search sales jobs? No. Most job boards are free for job seekers, this one included. A few niche boards charge job seekers a membership fee; the roles behind it are usually posted on the employers' own careers pages for free.

How many sales jobs are open right now? This board lists 82,478 open sales roles US candidates can take, and 121,655 across every country, read every 10 hours from the employers' own hiring systems.