Lakshya

Sales

Account Manager

Existing customers. Retention and expansion rather than new logos.

Full archetype card in progress

This role is mapped and its data is live — the figures on the field page come from parsing real postings. The full card — a decoded posting, the interview loop, a worked transcript of the decisive round, a three-week plan and pay bands — is still being written.

The themes below are complete, and are the more useful half.

The book for this field

Sales

What sales postings actually ask for, the roles and how they differ, pipeline and forecasting, selling technical and AI products, the loop, and the honest version of crossing over from a technical role.

CHAPTER 2The roles, and how they differSDR, AE, enterprise AE, account manager — the ladder, and where each is measured.READ THE CHAPTER →CHAPTER 3Pipeline, forecasting and the numberNamed in 84% of postings. The mechanics, reported from what employers describe.READ THE CHAPTER →CHAPTER 1What sales postings actually ask for2,173 postings. Quota in 87%, pipeline in 84%, enterprise in 84% — and AI in 77%.READ THE CHAPTER →

All 5 chapters in Sales →

Cross-cutting

Skills every archetype tests

These are shared across every field on this site — the same question asked in different vocabulary — so preparation here compounds rather than being spent once. The book above is specific to your field.

Measuring what resists measurementTested in every field on this site under a different name — evals, SLOs, DORA, ablations. Named in 59% of AI and 42% of platform postings, and almost nobody studies it deliberately.READ THE CHAPTER →Discovery before solutionThe decisive round in three separate archetypes, with the lowest pass rate of any stage.READ THE CHAPTER →The controlOne habit separates strong candidates from plausible ones more reliably than any technical depth.READ THE CHAPTER →

Practice questions across all themes →  ·  Back to Sales →