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Forward Networks
About Forward Networks
Every seller at Forward Networks carries one platform, Forward Enterprise, which models a customer's whole network so its engineers can search it, check changes before they go live and feed that picture to AI agents, and the buyers are Fortune 1000 network and security groups plus federal agencies. The field runs as Regional Sales Directors who own a territory and a quarterly and annual quota, backed by systems (sales) engineers who handle demos, proofs of concept and the technical half of RFPs. Federal is a line of its own, with directors by agency (one for the Air Force, one for civilian HHS and DHS work), a post-sale customer success engineer who must hold a TS/SCI clearance, and the company's first Partner Sales Director for federal and SLED resellers, distributors and MSPs, a pure channel seat measured on partner-sourced pipeline. Of 21 postings, 12 carry sales titles: five regional directors and an EMEA regional VP who will build a team of them, four sales engineering seats (a manager, a channel SE and two working enterprise accounts), the partner director and the federal CSE. Nine of the twelve sit in the US and three in the UK, so a third of the sales openings are federal or public sector.
Stated by the company
, SalesJobs.Now shows 13 open Forward Networks sales roles; 4 of them print a salary figure.
Forward Networks sales openings
Board read 4 Nov 2026, 21:10 UTC- $250,000–$270,000/yr OTE
- $225,000–$280,000/yr OTE
Customer Success Engineer Federal with a TS/SCI w/CI (shows the role here)
Customer success · Virginia, United States· 3w agoDetails
$190,000–$240,000/yr OTESystems (Sales) Engineer - UK (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · London, England, UK· 5mo agoDetails
Senior Systems (Sales) Engineer (shows the role here)
Sales engineering · IL / MN / MI· 5mo agoDetails
$240,000–$275,000/yr OTESystems Sales Engineering Manager (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · Santa Clara, CA, United States· 6mo agoDetails
Comparable sales openings elsewhere
The same sales role at other companies.
Enterprise Account Executive (shows the role here)
AlwaysHired · AE · San Francisco, CA· 1mo agoDetails
$145,000–$155,000/yrAccount Executive (shows the role here)
AlwaysHired · AE · Brooklyn, NY· 1mo agoDetails
$125,000–$150,000/yrStrategic Account Executive (shows the role here)
AlwaysHired · AE · Remote· 1mo agoDetails
$140,000–$160,000/yrChannel Co-Sell Director (shows the role here)
AlwaysHired · Partner sales · Remote· 1mo agoDetails
$200,000–$275,000/yr
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Forward Networks as an employer
Santa Clara network software company founded in 2013 whose sales hiring is senior: territory directors and systems engineers for Fortune 1000 and federal accounts. Posted pay: Stated per posting (stated by the company).
13 sales openings on its careers board right now13 sales openings at Forward Networks, as its own board showed them 4 Nov 2026.
Pay is quoted as on-target cash for the year, with director ads promising uncapped earnings against quarterly and annual quota, and the careers page adds equity for every employee, medical, dental and vision cover and untracked time off.
Right now its 13 open sales roles are posted in San Francisco (2), Virginia (2), Georgia (1), London (1), Pennsylvania (1) and 1 more place, and 2 are remote. Read from its postings on 30 Oct 2026: US first: the DC, Maryland and Virginia federal corridor (four, the Air Force seat also open from Texas, Ohio, Massachusetts, Colorado or Alabama), Santa Clara (two), Pennsylvania or Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota or Michigan, and remote in the eastern US; abroad, three in the UK, one of them in London.
Caveats
- The pay figure is stated by the company: a reference point from research, not a salary read off today's postings, so negotiate from the offer in front of you.
Pay at Forward Networks
Stated by the company, checked 2026-10-30From our research: stated by the company, checked 30 Oct 2026
Read from its postings on 30 Oct 2026: Each US posting states a yearly on-target cash range rather than a base: $320,000 to $360,000 for the Air Force regional director, $320,000 to $340,000 for the Ohio Valley enterprise director, $275,000 to $325,000 for the Santa Clara sales engineering manager and $190,000 to $240,000 for the federal customer success engineer. None splits that figure into base and variable, and the three UK postings (regional director, EMEA regional VP, London sales engineer) print no pay at all. The roles listed below state what Forward Networks posts now.
Only 4 of its 13 openings post pay, not enough to call a band typical for Forward Networks, so the figure above comes from research. What each sales role posts:
| Sales role | Openings | Pay posted | Top posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| AE | 6 | $250k–$270k/yr1 of 6 post pay | $270k/yr |
| Sales engineering | 3 | $225k–$280k/yr2 salaries | $280k/yr |
| Sales leadership | 2 | No pay posted | None posted |
| Customer success | 1 | $190k–$240k/yr1 salary | $240k/yr |
| Partner sales | 1 | No pay posted | None posted |
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Is Forward Networks a good company to sell for?
Santa Clara network software company founded in 2013 whose sales hiring is senior: territory directors and systems engineers for Fortune 1000 and federal accounts.
Is Forward Networks still an active employer?
Yes. Santa Clara network software company founded in 2013 whose sales hiring is senior: territory directors and systems engineers for Fortune 1000 and federal accounts. How its pay is structured: Pay is quoted as on-target cash for the year, with director ads promising uncapped earnings against quarterly and annual quota, and the careers page adds equity for every employee, medical, dental and vision cover and untracked time off.
What does a sales job at Forward Networks pay?
Stated per posting. Each US posting states a yearly on-target cash range rather than a base: $320,000 to $360,000 for the Air Force regional director, $320,000 to $340,000 for the Ohio Valley enterprise director, $275,000 to $325,000 for the Santa Clara sales engineering manager and $190,000 to $240,000 for the federal customer success engineer. None splits that figure into base and variable, and the three UK postings (regional director, EMEA regional VP, London sales engineer) print no pay at all.
Is selling for Forward Networks worth it?
Posted pay at Forward Networks: Stated per posting (stated by the company). Cloud and developer tools reward reps at ease with engineering buyers and usage-driven expansion.
How is Forward Networks's sales comp put together?
Pay is quoted as on-target cash for the year, with director ads promising uncapped earnings against quarterly and annual quota, and the careers page adds equity for every employee, medical, dental and vision cover and untracked time off.
Where are Forward Networks's sales roles based?
Right now its 13 open sales roles are posted in San Francisco (2), Virginia (2), Georgia (1), London (1), Pennsylvania (1) and 1 more place, and 2 are remote. Read from its postings on 30 Oct 2026: US first: the DC, Maryland and Virginia federal corridor (four, the Air Force seat also open from Texas, Ohio, Massachusetts, Colorado or Alabama), Santa Clara (two), Pennsylvania or Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota or Michigan, and remote in the eastern US; abroad, three in the UK, one of them in London.
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