Everyone wants the same jobs.

Goldman. McKinsey. Google PM. The "I made it" jobs you can flex at Thanksgiving.

Meanwhile there's a whole category of roles paying $80-150K where the applicant pool is tiny because nobody knows they exist.

Here's what I've found.

Sales Engineer — $90-140K

Sounds like sales. It's not really.

You demo technical products to people who want to buy them. Not cold calling. Not begging. Just "here's how this works" to people already interested.

Companies like Datadog, MongoDB, Figma — they all hire these.

You don't need a CS degree. You need to be good at explaining things and willing to learn the product.

Revenue Operations — $70-100K

This one sounds boring. It's actually kind of sick.

You're basically the person who makes sure sales and marketing don't waste money. Setting up systems, building dashboards, figuring out why leads aren't converting.

You need Excel and SQL. That's mostly it.

The job market for this is insane right now because every startup needs it and nobody studied it in school.

Technical Recruiter — $65-110K

Yeah, I know. "Recruiter" sounds like the LinkedIn people who spam you.

But technical recruiters at good companies are different. You're finding engineers, understanding what teams actually need, and playing matchmaker.

When you place a senior engineer, your commission can be $10-20K. One hire.

Solutions Consultant — $85-130K

Similar to sales engineer but on the implementation side. After someone buys the product, you help them actually use it.

Seriously — go search "solutions consultant" on LinkedIn right now and look at the comp. It's weirdly high for how little competition there is.

The pattern:

All these jobs sit between departments. Sales and engineering. Product and customer. Marketing and data.

They're hard to categorize, so fewer people apply. That's exactly why they pay well.