Remote Sales & Marketing Jobs: Live Openings, Top Roles & Skills (2026)

If you are hunting for a remote sales or marketing job, here is the honest picture: Marketing & Sales is the single biggest remote category on HireSkys — 3,313 live openings, more than one in five active listings on the whole site. But the data also corrects a common assumption: this is not mainly an entry-level market. Read the numbers before you apply.

How Big Is This Category?

Out of 14,998 active remote listings on HireSkys, 3,313 sit in Marketing & Sales — 22.1% of everything live on the site. No other category is larger. The next biggest, Admin & Support, has 1,646. So if your skills are in marketing or sales, this is where the deepest pool of remote work is right now.

The Roles Hiring Right Now

Sales roles dominate the top of the list. These are the most repeated exact job titles among live Marketing & Sales listings:

Role	Live listings
Enterprise Account Executive	57
Account Executive	45
Sales Development Representative	28
Business Development Representative	25
Business Development Manager	24
Product Marketing Manager	19
Social Media Manager	17
Ads Creative Strategist	17
Strategic Account Executive	16
Sales Development Representative (SDR)	15

The pattern is clear: account executives and sales/business development representatives are the volume roles. Pure marketing titles (Product Marketing Manager, Social Media Manager, Ads Creative Strategist) hire steadily, but in smaller numbers than the sales engine around them.

The Skills Employers Actually Ask For

Job titles tell you what companies call the role. Tags tell you what they actually want you to do. Across the 3,313 listings, these tags appear most:

Skill / tag	Listings carrying it
Sales Representative	1,983
Lead Generation	1,898
SEO	690
Social Media Manager	655
Cold Calling	476
Enterprise Sales	291
Email Marketing	284
CRM	278
Salesforce	277
Google Ads	238

Two skills stand far above the rest: Lead Generation (1,898 listings) and the Sales Representative tag (1,983). If you can show real pipeline — leads found, meetings booked, deals supported — that is the single most portable proof in this category. After that, the practical stack is SEO, social media, cold calling, and CRM fluency (Salesforce and HubSpot both appear repeatedly). One honest note: tags overlap, so these counts do not add up to the category total — a single listing can ask for lead generation, CRM and Salesforce at once.

Full-Time vs Contract

This category leans much harder toward full-time work than the site as a whole: 3,010 of 3,313 listings (90.9%) are full-time, against 80.9% full-time site-wide. Contract roles are 192, freelance 39, part-time 38. If you want a stable remote marketing or sales job rather than gig work, this category is where that stability concentrates.

The Experience Reality (Read This First)

Here is the part most roundups skip: Mid-Level (1,879) and Senior-Level (1,244) together make up 94.3% of live listings. Entry-Level is just 142 listings (4.3%), and Lead/Manager is 43. So a beginner should not expect this category to be an easy front door — the volume is in roles that assume you have already done the work. That does not mean beginners are locked out: SDR and BDR roles are the usual entry path, and the 142 entry-level listings are real. It means your application should prove experience (even freelance or project experience) rather than only enthusiasm.

Where the Jobs Are

Almost half the category hires for the United States: 1,595 listings (48.1%) are Remote (United States). The next markets are the United Kingdom (130), Philippines (111), South Africa (72), Canada (68), India (65) and Germany (58). Note that these are the location labels employers put on their own listings — "Remote (United States)" usually means US-based hiring, not necessarily a US work-permit requirement; always check the individual listing.

Pay: What the Listings Actually Disclose

Only 1,210 of 3,313 listings (36.5%) state a dollar amount at all, and the formats do not line up: base salaries, OTE (on-target earnings), base-plus-commission, monthly rates and even non-USD currencies all appear. That is why this guide does not publish an average salary for the category — averaging those together would be a made-up number. What the listings do show, as examples: base ranges like $65,000–$75,000 and $138,000–$156,000 USD, OTE packages like $140,000–$150,000 and $275,000–$350,000/year OTE plus equity, and commission-led roles like $55,000 plus commission. In sales especially, treat the OTE figure as the honest headline and ask what share of reps actually hit it. The format mix itself is part of the story: the same sample shows a monthly role at $2,000+ USD per month, a Canadian range at $70,000 — $95,000 CAD, and many listings that simply say 'Not Disclosed' — so two listings with very different-looking pay lines can be the same kind of job.

How to Apply: Step by Step

1. Open the Marketing & Sales category on HireSkys and filter by the role you actually want — SDR/BDR if you are early-career, Account Executive or Product Marketing if you have a track record.
2. Match the listing's tags, not just its title. If it asks for Lead Generation and Salesforce, your resume should show both — with numbers (leads, meetings, pipeline) wherever you have them.
3. Check the job type and location label before applying: 90.9% here is full-time, but the location label decides time-zone fit and any hiring-region limits.
4. For sales roles, read the pay line carefully: base vs OTE vs commission changes the job completely. If the split is not stated, ask before the final round, not after the offer.
5. Apply through the listing's own apply flow on HireSkys, and use the Save Jobs feature to track the roles you have applied to.
6. Learn the tools before you need them: a free HubSpot or Salesforce learning tier plus one documented project removes the most common rejection reason for SDR and BDR applicants.
7. Prepare one proof story per skill you claim — a lead-generation campaign, an SEO win, an account you grew. Numbers beat adjectives in every interview in this category.

Role by Role: What Each Job Actually Is

Titles blur together, so here is what each top role usually means in practice — and the proof that gets you shortlisted for it. The listing counts are live HireSkys data; the role descriptions are what employers generally expect from these titles.

Role	Listings	What it actually is	Proof that gets you shortlisted
Enterprise Account Executive	57	Closes large B2B deals with long cycles and several stakeholders	Closed-won revenue, deal size, win rate
Account Executive	45	Owns the full sales cycle for mid-market accounts	Quota attainment, pipeline you built yourself
Sales Development Representative	28	Outbound prospecting — books meetings for account executives	Meetings booked, reply rates, sequencing-tool fluency
Business Development Representative	25	New-business pipeline with heavier qualification than an SDR	Qualified pipeline, discovery calls run
Product Marketing Manager	19	Positioning, messaging, launches and sales enablement	Launch examples, positioning docs, win-rate impact
Social Media Manager	17	Content, community and paid social for a brand	Account growth numbers, engagement, ad results

The Skills in Detail: What Employers Mean

Lead Generation (1,898 listings) means finding and qualifying prospects before anyone tries to close them — list building, outreach, and booking the first conversation. Prove it with lists you built and meetings you booked, not with the phrase "good at lead gen" on your resume.

SEO (690) and Social Media (655) are the two marketing skills with real volume here. For SEO, employers want rankings and traffic you moved; for social, accounts you grew and content that performed. Screenshots of analytics beat certificates for both.

Cold Calling (476) is not dead — nearly one in seven listings in this category still asks for it, usually alongside email and social outreach rather than instead of them. What gets tested is objection handling and connect rates, so prepare two or three real call stories for interviews.

CRM fluency (CRM 278, Salesforce 277, HubSpot 199) is the quiet requirement underneath the sales roles: pipeline hygiene, follow-up discipline and reporting. Both Salesforce and HubSpot offer free learning tiers, so "no CRM experience" is fixable in weeks, not months — and worth fixing before you apply, since it appears on more listings than any single marketing tool.

Google Ads (238) and Email Marketing (284) round out the paid and lifecycle side: employers want return on ad spend or cost per lead for ads, and list growth or campaign revenue for email. One documented campaign with real numbers outweighs a long skills list.

The Beginner Path: How to Break In

With only 142 entry-level listings against 1,879 mid-level and 1,244 senior ones, beginners need a plan, not just applications. The realistic door is SDR or BDR work: those roles are widely treated as the training ground for account-executive roles, and they hire for communication and coachability more than a closing record.

Without experience, manufacture proof before you apply: run two or three small lead-generation projects (even unpaid, for a real business), complete the free learning tiers for HubSpot or Salesforce, and document every number — prospects contacted, replies earned, meetings booked. Then apply to SDR and BDR roles first and say plainly in your application what you did and what it produced. Enthusiasm without numbers is the application this category rejects most.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Marketing & Sales really the biggest remote category on HireSkys?
Yes — 3,313 live listings, 22.1% of all active listings on the site, ahead of every other category.

Are these jobs mostly full-time?
Yes — 90.9% are full-time, a higher share than the site-wide 80.9%. Contract, freelance and part-time roles exist but are the minority here.

Can a beginner get in?
It is harder than the headline count suggests: only 4.3% of listings are entry-level. SDR and BDR roles are the realistic entry path — apply there, and show any real outreach or lead-generation work you have done.

Which skill should I learn first?
Lead generation, backed by CRM fluency (Salesforce or HubSpot). Those two tags appear on more listings than any marketing-specific skill in this category.

Why does this guide not give an average salary?
Because only 36.5% of listings state a dollar amount, and they mix base, OTE, commission, monthly and non-USD figures. An average across those would be misleading, so the guide shows the formats and example ranges instead.

Where do I browse these jobs?
On the Marketing & Sales category page — it always shows the current live listings, while this guide's counts are a snapshot from October 31, 2026.

Is cold calling dead?
No — 476 live listings in this category still carry the Cold Calling tag, usually alongside email and social outreach. It is a smaller piece of the job than it used to be, but it is still a tested skill.

Which tools should I learn first?
Salesforce (277 listings), HubSpot (199) and CRM work generally (278). Both platforms have free learning tiers, and CRM fluency appears on more listings than any single marketing tool.

Sales or marketing — which path should I pick?
Pick by the proof you already have. If you can show outreach, meetings or closed deals, sales has the volume and the OTE upside. If you can show content, SEO or social growth, marketing roles fit better. Both live in this same category, so switching lanes later does not mean starting over.