Career switch, measured
From Customer Success Manager to Sales Engineer
Yes, it's a close move. Measured across current postings, the two roles have 61% skill overlap. Skills that carry over include Sales, Stakeholder management, Customer success, B2B sales; the main skills to add are Lead generation, AWS, Azure, Manufacturing.
61%
skill overlap
593
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Skills that carry over
Share of each role’s postings that ask for the skill.
SkillCustomer Success ManagerSales Engineer
- Sales71%96%
- Stakeholder management58%35%
- Customer success99%25%
- B2B sales17%22%
- Marketing32%27%
- Forecasting16%21%
- Salesforce30%13%
- CRM25%14%
Skills to add
Asked for often in Sales Engineer postings, rarely in Customer Success Manager ones.
SkillCustomer Success ManagerSales Engineer
- Lead generation–21%
- AWS6%13%
- Azure5%12%
- Manufacturing–9%
- Google Cloud–9%
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