Career switch, measured
From Sales Manager to Sales Engineer
Yes, it's a close move. Measured across current postings, the two roles have 91% skill overlap. Skills that carry over include Sales, Customer success, Forecasting, Contract negotiation; the main skills to add are Cybersecurity, AWS, Azure, Product management.
91%
skill overlap
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open Sales Engineer postings read
Skills that carry over
Share of each role’s postings that ask for the skill.
SkillSales ManagerSales Engineer
- Sales88%96%
- Customer success26%25%
- Forecasting23%21%
- Contract negotiation25%20%
- Marketing40%27%
- Stakeholder management25%35%
- B2B sales15%22%
- Lead generation14%21%
Skills to add
Asked for often in Sales Engineer postings, rarely in Sales Manager ones.
SkillSales ManagerSales Engineer
- Cybersecurity–16%
- AWS–13%
- Azure–12%
- Product management–10%
- Google Cloud–9%
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