Who's hiring in sales: October 29 to November 5, 2026

Nooks, Sentra, Traversal, Bites and Finpilot raised money between October 29 and November 5, 2026, and each said the money will grow its sales or go-to-market team. MNTN is rehiring sellers after about 40% of its experienced quota-carrying reps left. Acronis, fullthrottle.ai, Sokin and Neudata named new chief revenue officers. The biggest cut: Canva is laying off 1,271 people, 22% of its staff.

Who is hiring

Acronis, the cyber protection company, named HoJin Kim chief revenue officer. HoJin Kim now leads its revenue organization and was CRO of WatchGuard Technologies, where the job included "expanding the sales organization." More than 21,000 service providers work with Acronis. [1]

fullthrottle.ai, an ad tech platform for mid-market brands and agencies, named Jon Camerata chief revenue officer on November 4. At LOCALiQ, Jon Camerata ran a revenue organization of more than $300 million across local, national, partner and inside sales. "My focus is building a high-performance revenue team," Jon Camerata said. [2]

Sokin, a business payments company, named Christopher Morris chief revenue officer on November 4. Christopher Morris came from Corpay and now leads sales, onboarding, relationship management and revenue operations worldwide. Embedded partner deals make up 40% of Sokin's new US revenue. [3]

Neudata, an alternative and market data company, named Tom Fletcher-Manuel chief revenue officer on November 3. The company said it is working to "strengthen its commercial capabilities." Tom Fletcher-Manuel led about 90 people in sales, account management and client success at Third Bridge. [4]

MNTN, the connected TV ad company, is rebuilding its sales team. On its third-quarter earnings call, CEO Tony Weisman said about 40% of its experienced quota-carrying sellers left after the company changed how sellers were paid, including a shift in incentives from revenue to activity. MNTN has fixed the plans, hired 16 new sellers and starts a new-hire class later in November. It also hired new leaders for brand sales and agency sales. [5]

Who raised money to hire

Five companies announced funding and said the money will grow sales or go-to-market teams.

Company	Raised	Led by	In their words
Nooks (AI for sales teams)	$500M in growth capital	General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund	"hiring across engineering, research, product, design and GTM, with over 100 open roles" [6]
Sentra (data security)	$150M strategic investment	Capital One Ventures	Will "expand its go-to-market by scaling its field and channel programs" [7]
Traversal (AI for site reliability)	$120M Series B at a $1B valuation	Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures and Khosla Ventures	"hiring top talent across research, engineering, and go-to-market" [8]
Bites (training for frontline workers)	$40M Series A	PeakSpan Capital	Will "scale enterprise sales and customer success operations" and fund its US expansion, The SaaS News reported [9]
Finpilot (AI for institutional investors)	$10M Series A	Lobby Capital	Plans to hire for "product, marketing, client success, sales, and business development" roles, The SaaS News reported [10]

Who is cutting

Canva is cutting 22% of its staff, 1,271 people, TechCrunch reported on November 4. CEO Melanie Perkins wrote that "our growth has slowed for the first time in a decade." Canva is merging its product, growth and platform teams. The report did not name sales roles. [11]

SoundHound AI will cut about 27% of its global workforce, according to its November 5 SEC filing. It expects $18 million to $22 million in charges, mostly severance. The filing did not name which teams. [12]

Squarespace is cutting about 19% of its global workforce, around 300 people. A spokesperson told TechCrunch the changes are meant to "simplify how we operate" and help the company move faster. The report did not name sales roles. [13]

SUSE, the Linux company, is cutting about 10% of its staff, around 190 people, The Next Web reported from The Register's account of an internal memo. CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen wrote that "the requirement for some existing roles has greatly diminished." The memo did not say which roles will go. [14]

Deals that could reshape sales teams

• Salesforce, which agreed to buy Braze in October, signed a deal to buy Cresta, a voice AI company for customer service. Its voice agents handle customer calls for brands including Marriott, Comcast and Alaska Airlines. The announcement did not give a price. The deal is expected to close in Salesforce's first quarter of fiscal 2028. [15]
• Docusign bought Suplari, an AI procurement company, to add spending and supplier insights to its agreement management platform. The announcement did not give a price. [16]
• Affle agreed to buy ad tech company Perion for $11.70 a share in cash, about $420 million. The deal needs shareholder and regulatory approval and is expected to close in early 2027. [17]

The market in one number

92.49. That was Indeed's index of US sales job postings on October 30, where February 2020 equals 100. It is up from 92.33 a week earlier and from 91.77 a year earlier. It started 2026 at 97.66, so sales postings are about 5% lower than in January. [18] The percentage is our math from the published index.

What to do this week

1. Go where the money went. On November 6, 2026, Nooks's public job board listed 18 sales roles, including account executive and SDR seats, some in EMEA and APAC. Traversal's listed 8 sales roles, including four enterprise account executive territories. Sentra, Bites and Finpilot said they are building sales teams, so reach out before their roles are posted.
2. Ask how the pay plan has changed. MNTN lost about 40% of its experienced sellers after a pay plan change. Before you accept an offer, ask how often the comp plan changed in the last two years and how commissions are paid.
3. Ask about Cresta. Selling contact center or service software at Salesforce or Cresta? Ask how territories and quotas will change once the deal closes.

Know a company hiring account executives that we missed? Tell us and we will look at it for next week.