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Job Change Signals

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Know when a contact starts a new job or gets promoted.

Detect when contacts join new companies. Each signal includes the new role, previous role and company, both job locations, event date, and founded-new-company detection across 4M+ monitored contacts, refreshed weekly.

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Contacts Monitored
4M+
Detection Types
New Role, Promotion, Founded
Refresh Cadence
Weekly
Delivery
REST API, GCS Push, Generate Insights API, Flat File
Format
JSONL or Parquet
Bucket
gs://autobound-work-milestones-v2/

What Are Job Change Signals?

3 subtypes

Job changes are one of the highest-intent signals in B2B sales: a contact moves to a new company and brings their technology preferences, vendor relationships, and buying authority with them. A VP of Sales who used your CRM at their last company will likely evaluate it at the new one within 90 days.

Autobound monitors LinkedIn profile changes across 4M+ contacts weekly, comparing current employment against historical snapshots. Each signal carries the new title and company, previous title and company, role descriptions, locations on both sides, the event date, months since the move, a founded-new-company flag, and a confidence score. New executives make roughly 70% of vendor evaluation decisions in their first 100 days, so detection within days of the move matters.

Example subtypes

Job changejobChange

Example from the signal catalog

Alex Rivera joined Ironwood Insurance as VP of Operations in March after five years at a competitor.

From a job change to your next move

What we detect, what you get, and what you do with it. Pick the path that fits your team.

Sales, marketing and RevOps: Slack, CRM fields and plays.

  1. 0103

    Contacts move to new companies

    When a contact changes jobs, we record the new role, the old role and company, and when the move happened.

    1. Profile change
    Profile changeJul 14, 2026
    Previous title
    Director of Enterprise Sales
    Previous company
    Brex
    New title
    VP of Sales
    Date
    May 15, 2026
    Extracted
    Rampramp.comcompanyMarcus ChencontactJob changesignal_subtype

  2. 0203

    You get one clean record

    Each record names the person, their title and company, labels the event, and links back to the source.

    2. Signal record

    Ramp

    ramp.com

    Marcus ChenVP of Sales

    Job changejobChange

    Marcus Chen joins Ramp as VP of Sales, from Brex

    From
    Brex
    Date
    May 15, 2026
    Detected
    Jul 14, 2026

    signal_id 5c2f8e1a…

  3. 0303

    Act on it where you work

    Send it to Slack, write it to your CRM, or give it to an AI agent.

    When
    A champion's previous_company_domain is a closed-won account
    Do
    Congrats email plus an intro offer to the new team
    3. Your team acts
    or your own code
    #account-signals

    Signal alert from your workflow

    Marcus Chen, Ramp· Job change

    Marcus Chen joins Ramp as VP of Sales, from Brex

    Play: Congrats email plus an intro offer to the new team

    Start the playOpen the source

    Illustration. The record fields are real.

Try it on your own accounts

1,000 free credits. Query workMilestone in the Signal API or from Claude.

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How we build this signal

How we build each job change signal

We detect job changes from full work histories, with fixed rules and no language model.

Max event age
6 months
Language models used
None
  1. 01

    Source

    Each month a large contact-data delivery with full work histories loads into our warehouse. For an extra contact list we also pull current public profiles, to cover people the delivery misses or has stale.

  2. 02

    Role cleanup

    Non-operational roles such as advisor, board member or investor are removed from each history first, so a new board seat does not read as a job change. An advisor title that also names a founder or CEO role is kept.

  3. 03

    Change detection

    Adjacent history entries are compared. A different company is a job change, and the record describes the company joined, not the one left. Fields we cannot resolve for the new company stay empty.

  4. 04

    Freshness and sanity gates

    Only events from the last 6 months ship. A pair with the same old and new title is dropped as a stale record, not a milestone.

  5. 05

    Dedup and delivery

    Each signal is keyed on the person's LinkedIn URL, the subtype, the event date and the company domain. A key that already shipped is not delivered again.

Job Change Signal Schema

Job change signals include complete transition context: new and previous job titles with descriptions, current and previous company details, job locations, event timing, and founded-new-company detection.

Request, response and price →
{
  "signal_id": "5c2f8e1a-9b47-4d36-a2c8-7e91d4f0b263",
  "signal_type": "workMilestone",
  "signal_subtype": "jobChange",
  "detected_at": "2026-07-14T13:22:44Z",
  "association": "contact",
  "contact": {
    "name": "Marcus Chen",
    "linkedin_url": "linkedin.com/in/marcus-chen-sf",  // match on LinkedIn URL
    "title": "VP of Sales"
  },
  "company": {
    "name": "Ramp",
    "domain": "ramp.com",  // or match on domain
    "linkedin_url": "linkedin.com/company/ramp"
  },
  "data": {
    "event_date": "2026-05-15",
    "months_since_event": 2,
    "new_job_title": "VP of Sales",
    "new_job_description": "Leads the North American sales organization at Ramp, overseeing mid-market and enterprise revenue teams.",
    "previous_job_title": "Director of Enterprise Sales",
    "previous_job_description": "Built and led the enterprise sales motion for corporate card and spend management at Brex.",
    "company_name": "Ramp",
    "company_domain": "ramp.com",
    "previous_company_name": "Brex",
    "previous_company_domain": "brex.com",
    "new_job_location": "New York, New York, United States",
    "previous_job_location": "San Francisco, California, United States",
    "founded_new_company": false,
    "work_anniversary_year": null,  // always null for job changes
    "confidence": 0.9
  }
}

Bulk data

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Measured coverage

What's inside Job Change Signals

A dated snapshot counted in our production database, not a live count. Minimums, not ceilings.

Coverage for all 35 signal types →
3,299,735
Contacts with fresh data per month
90-day average, records through Jul 22, 2026
3,686,050
Records created per month
Published baseline, records through Jul 22, 2026

Top subtypes

3 total
Work Anniversary23M · 89%
Job Change1.8M · 7.1%
Promotion969K · 3.8%

Seniority

full breakdown →
Staff8.4M · 52%
Manager2.7M · 17%
C-Suite1.3M · 8.0%
Director942K · 5.8%
VP688K · 4.2%
Consultant102K · 0.6%

Departments

full breakdown →
Business Management1.8M · 11%
Operations1.1M · 6.7%
Technology, Software, Information Technology1.0M · 6.3%
Healthcare963K · 5.9%
Sales911K · 5.6%
Finance720K · 4.4%
Engineering637K · 3.9%

Join keys

fill rate
Contact LinkedIn100%
Contact name100%
Email46%
Records measured 25,802,354+Contacts reached 16,347,187+

See for yourself

Check out sample data: real Job Change records with the same fields the API returns.

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“Autobound's triggers keep us current with news and job openings, making personalization effortless.”
Oleksandr Demianyk, Demand Generation Manager, TechMagic

Frequently asked questions

What are job change signals?
Job change signals detect when contacts change companies, get promoted, or found new ventures. Autobound tracks 4M+ monitored contacts with weekly refresh cadence, capturing the new role, new company, previous role, previous company, tenure data, promotion detection, and whether the contact founded a new company. These signals create time-sensitive outreach windows.
How does Autobound detect job change signals?
Autobound monitors LinkedIn profile changes for 4M+ contacts on a weekly cadence. When a title or company change is detected, our models classify the change type (new company, internal promotion, or founded company), calculate tenure at the previous organization, and emit a signal within days of the transition. Confidence scoring filters out false positives.
How should I use job change data in my outreach?
Speed is everything with job change outreach. New executives make 70% of vendor decisions in their first 100 days. Reference their specific transition, like 'Congrats on the move from X to Y,' and connect your value prop to the challenges of their new role. For former customers, lead with the relationship: 'We worked together at Company X and would love to show you what has changed.'