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Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) jobs: 332 open roles, pay, industries and skills

332 open Chief Revenue Officer jobs (CRO), taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Also listed as Chief Sales Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, Head of Sales, Head of Revenue. Listings that state pay show a median of $206,500 a year.

The market for Chief Revenue Officer work

Every figure is counted from verified open listings. Pay is what the employer advertises for the job.

Verified open Chief Revenue Officer jobs
332

Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.

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Median pay in listings that state it
$206,500

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

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State with the most openings
New York (53)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Industry hiring the most
Technology & Software (35%)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Listings that are remote
62%

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Listings that ask for an AI skill
19%

Source: NextChapter verified openings, read in full.

What a CRO does

C-suite role in Sales.

The revenue number: sales, and often marketing, customer success and partnerships behind it. Owns the forecast and the plan to hit it.

Usually reports to the CEO. At smaller companies the same job is titled Head of Sales.

Other ways this role is written

  • CRO
  • Chief Revenue Officer
  • Chief Sales Officer
  • Chief Commercial Officer
  • Head of Sales
  • Head of Revenue

Listings under any of these titles are counted on this page. Assistant, associate, manager and staff titles are not.

Open Chief Revenue Officer jobs

Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.

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CRO salary

From 84 open listings that state pay. Annual, in US dollars, base pay only.

Lower quarter
$164,000
Median
$206,500
Upper quarter
$272,000

Leadership pay often includes bonus and equity that a listing does not state. Treat these figures as the floor of the conversation, not the whole package.

Best industries for CRO jobs

Employers hiring the most, as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry. Median pay shown where at least 8 listings state it.

Where CRO jobs are

States with the most open listings; median pay where at least 8 listings state it.

Skills CRO jobs ask for

Named in the listings themselves, as a share of 97 Chief Revenue Officer listings that name skills. Leadership listings name fewer skills than individual-contributor ones, so this is a signal, not a checklist.

Most named in CRO listings

  1. 1. forecasting45%
  2. 2. go-to-market29%
  3. 3. enterprise sales20%
  4. 4. crm20%
  5. 5. onboarding19%
  6. 6. quota14%
  7. 7. salesforce13%
  8. 8. pipeline management10%
  9. 9. procurement9%
  10. 10. logistics8%

Across all Sales openings

  1. 1. crm5%
  2. 2. salesforce4%
  3. 3. excel4%
  4. 4. quota3%
  5. 5. forecasting2%
  6. 6. go-to-market2%
  7. 7. onboarding2%
  8. 8. procurement2%
  9. 9. logistics2%
  10. 10. powerpoint2%

AI skills for CRO jobs

Specific AI skills named in the full posting text, such as prompt engineering, AI governance or an AI tool. A general mention of AI does not count.

19% of 85 open Chief Revenue Officer listings ask for a specific AI skill, against 3% of all Sales openings.

AI skills named most often

  1. 1. AI tools in daily work13%
  2. 2. AI governance and risk5%
  3. 3. LLM application engineering4%
  4. 4. Gen-AI assistants (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude)4%
  5. 5. AI strategy and use cases2%
  6. 6. AI evaluation and guardrails2%

Do AI skills change chief revenue officer pay?

For Sales roles in general, as of November 2, 2026. This is the function’s figure, not one for chief revenue officer alone: one title rarely has enough listings on both sides.

Among Sales listings, those that ask for an AI skill advertise +16.5% (about $25.5k) compared with similar listings that do not, matched on level and industry.

Listings that ask for an AI skill
$175,000
median, from 1,433 paid listings
Listings that never mention AI
$137,500
median, from 2,341 paid listings

Advertised pay only: the midpoint of the range an employer posted, on live U.S. postings read from the full text. “Asks for an AI skill” means the posting names a specific AI skill; “no AI” means it never mentions AI. A difference in what is advertised is not a promise of what you would be paid, and it does not show that learning a skill causes a raise.

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Job titles under CRO

The exact titles employers use, with their own job and salary pages.

Employers hiring for CRO roles

  • Confidential 17
  • JRG Partners 7
  • Step Up 6
  • Crystalia Glass 6
  • Quest Diagnostics 4
  • Storm2 3
  • Nexa Staffing 3
  • Veeva Systems 3
  • Stick Grips Golf 3
  • Zipline 3
  • Urrly 3
  • AIOS 2

CRO questions

What does a CRO do?
The revenue number: sales, and often marketing, customer success and partnerships behind it. Owns the forecast and the plan to hit it. Usually reports to the CEO. At smaller companies the same job is titled Head of Sales.
What does CRO stand for?
CRO stands for Chief Revenue Officer. The same job is also written Chief Sales Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, Head of Sales, Head of Revenue.
How many CRO jobs are open?
332 verified open Chief Revenue Officer jobs, each checked against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
How much does a CRO make?
Among 84 open Chief Revenue Officer listings that state pay, the median is $206,500 a year, and half of listings fall between $164,000 and $272,000. This is pay the employer advertises for the job, not total compensation such as bonus or equity.
Where are CRO jobs?
New York (53), California (51), Texas (22), Florida (16) have the most open Chief Revenue Officer listings. About 62% of listings that state a work arrangement are remote.
Which state pays a CRO the most?
Of the states with enough listings that state pay, California has the highest median at $225,000.
Which industries hire for CRO roles?
Technology & Software (35%), Financial Services & Banking (14%), Healthcare & Hospital Systems (12%), Manufacturing & Industrial (7%), as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry.
What skills do CRO jobs ask for?
The skills named most often in open Chief Revenue Officer listings are forecasting, go-to-market, enterprise sales, crm, onboarding.
Do CRO jobs ask for AI skills?
19% of 85 open Chief Revenue Officer listings read in full name a specific AI skill. The most common is AI tools in daily work.

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