I would recommend against doing a trial by fire sales job(unless its a move inside of a software organization you're already a part of).
Because the types of sales jobs that hire people without sales experience are usually
- low touch, so less applicable to good sales jobs
- low pay
- long hours
- shitty
Instead I'd recommend moving towards sales slowly leveraging your dev experience.
Find salesman in your org, and convince them you'd be helpful to have along to help them sell. This should be pretty easy, honestly most sales people want to say "And here's Susie, she's a really smart developer on our team and she'll be able to answer or find the answer to any of your technical questions."
If this doesn't work look for jobs marked "Sales Engineer".
Or alternatively you could join a large consulting organization. By it's very nature consulting is half sales/half dev.
Because the types of sales jobs that hire people without sales experience are usually
- low touch, so less applicable to good sales jobs
- low pay
- long hours
- shitty
Instead I'd recommend moving towards sales slowly leveraging your dev experience. Find salesman in your org, and convince them you'd be helpful to have along to help them sell. This should be pretty easy, honestly most sales people want to say "And here's Susie, she's a really smart developer on our team and she'll be able to answer or find the answer to any of your technical questions."
If this doesn't work look for jobs marked "Sales Engineer". Or alternatively you could join a large consulting organization. By it's very nature consulting is half sales/half dev.