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About Zendesk

Zendesk sells its Resolution Platform: ticketing and help desk software for customer service and internal employee service, AI agents that resolve requests on their own, a copilot for human agents and a contact center offering, including solutions built on AWS Connect. Account executives are split into SMB, commercial and enterprise segments, with hunter roles for net-new logos, strategic account directors (one for retail) and a government and nonprofit seller in Australia, supported by sales engineers, AI success strategists and BDRs. US openings are in San Francisco and Austin or remote, some open in any state, while Lisbon hosts its multilingual SDR and digital sales teams for Europe and Singapore covers Southeast Asia and Greater China.

Stated per posting

Stated by the company

, SalesJobs.Now shows 45 open Zendesk sales roles; 7 of them print a salary figure.

Zendesk sales openings

Board read 31 Oct 2026, 10:09 UTC

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Zendesk openings by country

Where its sales openings take applicants, country by country.

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Zendesk as an employer

Customer service software company whose Lisbon office is the base for its European sales development and digital sales hiring. Posted pay: Stated per posting (stated by the company).

45 sales openings on its careers board right now
Hiring right now

45 sales openings at Zendesk, as its own board showed them 31 Oct 2026.

How pay is built

A Zendesk paycheck split between base and commission at the ratio each posting names (half and half for most account executives), and the postings mention possible bonus or other incentives as well.

Where it hires

San Francisco, Austin and remote US roles (several open in every state); abroad Lisbon, Singapore, London, Dublin, Melbourne, Krakow, Tokyo, Pune, Berlin, São Paulo, Mexico City and Manila, plus remote roles in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, India, Australia and South Korea.

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 Zendesk

Stated by the company, checked 2026-10-30
Stated per posting

From our research: stated by the company, checked 2026-10-30

Most US sales postings quote one annualized OTE range valid across all US locations together with the base-to-commission mix: $320,000 to $480,000 at 50/50 for a senior enterprise account executive, $111,000 to $167,000 at 60/40 for an SMB account executive in San Francisco, $226,000 to $338,000 at 80/20 for a senior solutions consultant. Its two US strategic account director roles and all 57 of its sales postings outside the US show no figure.

Only 7 of its 45 openings post pay, not enough to call a band typical for Zendesk, so the figure above comes from research. What each sales role posts:

Method: how we research and grade employer pay.

Sales roles Zendesk hires for

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From the forum

Ask salespeople what Zendesk is like from the inside: comp, quota, the interview loop.

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Zendesk: what candidates ask before applying

Is Zendesk a good company to sell for?

Customer service software company whose Lisbon office is the base for its European sales development and digital sales hiring.

Is Zendesk still an active employer?

Yes. Customer service software company whose Lisbon office is the base for its European sales development and digital sales hiring. How its pay is structured: A Zendesk paycheck split between base and commission at the ratio each posting names (half and half for most account executives), and the postings mention possible bonus or other incentives as well.

What does a sales job at Zendesk pay?

Stated per posting. Most US sales postings quote one annualized OTE range valid across all US locations together with the base-to-commission mix: $320,000 to $480,000 at 50/50 for a senior enterprise account executive, $111,000 to $167,000 at 60/40 for an SMB account executive in San Francisco, $226,000 to $338,000 at 80/20 for a senior solutions consultant. Its two US strategic account director roles and all 57 of its sales postings outside the US show no figure.

Is selling for Zendesk worth it?

Posted pay at Zendesk: Stated per posting (stated by the company). Business software suits reps who like a repeatable motion, a clear quota and a defined patch.

How is Zendesk's sales comp put together?

A Zendesk paycheck split between base and commission at the ratio each posting names (half and half for most account executives), and the postings mention possible bonus or other incentives as well.

Where are Zendesk's sales roles based?

San Francisco, Austin and remote US roles (several open in every state); abroad Lisbon, Singapore, London, Dublin, Melbourne, Krakow, Tokyo, Pune, Berlin, São Paulo, Mexico City and Manila, plus remote roles in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, India, Australia and South Korea.

Weigh Zendesk against

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