The US Hiring Thaw Won't Save Your ANZ Sales Career
American tech is interviewing again, but if you're banking on a trans-Pacific rescue, you've misread the room.
Bold perspectives from sales leaders across ANZ
American tech is interviewing again, but if you're banking on a trans-Pacific rescue, you've misread the room.
B2B ecommerce and loyalty platforms are automating the sale—your value now lives in the relationship, not the close.
If you're waiting for tech hiring to bounce back before you make a move, you've already missed the window.
The platforms eating traditional retail aren't hiring salespeople—but the retailers fighting back desperately need them.
That $6.5B retail investment sounds like opportunity—until you see where the money's actually going.
They called it AI-driven cuts, but read the fine print: they're doubling down on enterprise sales.
Tech isn't hiring because they already figured out how to hit their numbers with fewer reps.
While you were ignoring retail as "beneath" your enterprise AE aspirations, they just became the most interesting hiring market in ANZ.
Tech companies aren't planning to hire again; they're planning to need fewer of you.
When Australia's biggest retailers get caught systematically deceiving customers, it doesn't just hurt their brand—it kills trust across every B2B pitch in the country.
ANZ retailers spent three years hiring for channels that were already converging—and now the comp plans don't match how customers actually buy.
American tech is interviewing again, which means every senior AE in Sydney is about to get a LinkedIn message with a US OTE attached.