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AlibabaSales team growth

2974 Sales employees (13.1% of company), growing rapidly (11% YoY).

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The Sales department currently has 2974 employees out of 22716 total (13.1%). The department is growing rapidly (11% YoY), representing a change of approximately +294 employees.

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Signal
Sales team growth
Department headcount
2,974
Department growth, 1 year
+11%
Total headcount
22,716
Company growth, 1 year
+7%
Growth category
Moderate

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Numbers

Company growth, 6 months
+3%
Company growth, 2 years
+15%
Median tenure (years)
5.5
Share of company
+13.1%
Department change
294

Details

Median tenure
5.5 years
Overall growth: 1yr
7
Overall growth: 2yr
15
Overall growth: 6mth
3
Company size
Enterprise

Extraction

Detected
Jun 23, 2026
signal_type
employee-growth
signal_subtype
departmentalGrowthSales

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GET /v1/signals/07152003-92fb-4fdf-bb01-5259a3b1f7c7 returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for alibabagroup.com.

{
  "signal_id": "07152003-92fb-4fdf-bb01-5259a3b1f7c7",
  "signal_type": "employee-growth",
  "signal_subtype": "departmentalGrowthSales",
  "detected_at": "2026-06-23T01:20:28+00:00",
  "company": {
    "name": "Alibaba",
    "domain": "alibabagroup.com"
  },
  "data": {
    "summary": "2974 Sales employees (13.1% of company), growing rapidly (11% YoY).",
    "relevance": 2,
    "description": "The Sales department currently has 2974 employees out of 22716 total (13.1%). The department is growing rapidly (11% YoY), representing a change of approximately +294 employees.",
    "median_tenure": 5.5,
    "overall_growth": {
      "1yr": 7,
      "2yr": 15,
      "6mth": 3
    },
    "department_name": "Sales",
    "growth_category": "moderate",
    "total_headcount": 22716,
    "source_timestamp": "2025-12-12T22:33:04.762Z",
    "department_headcount": 2974,
    "departments_metadata": {
      "legal": {
        "headcount": 194,
        "growth_1yr": 1
      },
      "sales": {
        "headcount": 2974,
        "growth_1yr": 11
      },
      "finance": {
        "headcount": 612,
        "growth_1yr": 3
      },
      "research": {
        "headcount": 436,
        "growth_1yr": 3
      },
      "education": {
        "headcount": 280,
        "growth_1yr": 25
      },
      "marketing": {
        "headcount": 1076,
        "growth_1yr": 4
      },
      "accounting": {
        "headcount": 193,
        "growth_1yr": 1
      },
      "consulting": {
        "headcount": 214,
        "growth_1yr": 2
      },
      "operations": {
        "headcount": 2396,
        "growth_1yr": 6
      },
      "purchasing": {
        "headcount": 207,
        "growth_1yr": 9
      },
      "engineering": {
        "headcount": 4164,
        "growth_1yr": 8
      },
      "real_estate": {
        "headcount": 19,
        "growth_1yr": 19
      },
      "administrative": {
        "headcount": 436,
        "growth_1yr": 11
      },
      "arts_and_design": {
        "headcount": 649,
        "growth_1yr": 7
      },
      "human_resources": {
        "headcount": 702,
        "growth_1yr": 5
      },
      "customer_success": {
        "headcount": 357,
        "growth_1yr": 9
      },
      "entrepreneurship": {
        "headcount": 230,
        "growth_1yr": 12
      },
      "quality_assurance": {
        "headcount": 183,
        "growth_1yr": 3
      },
      "product_management": {
        "headcount": 851,
        "growth_1yr": 3
      },
      "healthcare_services": {
        "headcount": 54,
        "growth_1yr": 20
      },
      "business_development": {
        "headcount": 1293,
        "growth_1yr": 8
      },
      "information_technology": {
        "headcount": 2064,
        "growth_1yr": 3
      },
      "media_and_communication": {
        "headcount": 464,
        "growth_1yr": 8
      },
      "community_and_social_services": {
        "headcount": 233,
        "growth_1yr": 9
      },
      "military_and_protective_services": {
        "headcount": 120,
        "growth_1yr": 10
      }
    },
    "company_size_category": "enterprise",
    "department_growth_1yr": 11,
    "department_pct_of_total": 13.1,
    "department_absolute_change": 294
  }
}

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