Workforce Intelligence
Job Change Signals
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+ contacts, refreshed weekly.
Contacts Covered
Detection Types
Refresh Cadence
Avg Detection Time
What Are Job Change Signals?
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 Signal Subtypes
Data Schema
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.
{
"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
}
}- GCS Bucket
- gs://autobound-contact-database/
- Formats
- JSONL · Parquet
- Refresh
- Weekly
Applications
What teams build with Job Change Signals
05 documented applications
- 01
Former Customer Reactivation
When a champion who used your product at their previous company moves to a new organization, they are your warmest lead. Job change signals let you reach out within days of their transition.
- 02
New Executive Outreach
New VPs and C-suite executives reevaluate vendor relationships in their first quarter. Job change signals identify these transition windows before the evaluation period closes.
- 03
Competitive Account Penetration
When someone leaves a competitor's organization, they may be willing to share insights about their former employer's technology environment, creating intelligence gathering opportunities.
- 04
Founder Identification
Job change signals detect when contacts found new companies. Founders of funded startups are early-stage buyers who make fast purchasing decisions with minimal procurement overhead.
- 05
Network-Based Selling
Track job changes across your entire contact network to identify when people you have relationships with move into positions where they can influence or make purchasing decisions.
Measured, Not Estimated
What's actually inside Job Change Signals
Volumes, subtypes, geography, and join-key fill rates audited directly from our production database, so you can verify coverage before you buy.
Top subtypes
3 totalSeniority
full breakdown →Departments
full breakdown →Join keys
fill rateSee the real records for yourself.
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Worked Example
One signal, traced to outcome
One Job Change Signals record followed from detection, through the action a rep took on it, to the measured result. Illustrative composite of observed customer workflows.
01 signal → 02 action → 03 outcome
Signal detected
Michael Torres, previously Director of Sales Operations at Salesloft, starts as VP of Revenue Operations at Gong.io.
Action taken
Your sales team reaches out within days:
“Congrats on the VP role at Gong, Michael! At Salesloft you used our analytics platform. Happy to set up a quick demo showing what's new since you last saw it.”
Outcome
Deal closed in 45 days
Because a former champion brought their vendor preference to a new organization with fresh budget.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What are job change signals?
How does Autobound detect job change signals?
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How It Works
From Raw Data to Your Stack
Autobound ingests from Job boards, LinkedIn profiles, company filings, extracts structured signals with AI, and delivers them however your infrastructure needs.
Autobound Ingests
Raw data from Job boards, LinkedIn profiles, company filings is continuously collected and normalized across millions of sources.
AI Extracts & Scores
ML models extract 1 signal subtypes with relevance scoring, confidence levels, and entity resolution.
You Receive
Structured JSONL delivered via your preferred method, updated on a weekly cadence.
REST API
Real-time access with subtype filtering
300 req/minGCS Push
Automated delivery to your bucket
JSONL + ParquetEnrich API
On-demand LLM-ranked insights
AI relevance scoringFlat File
Bulk exports for data warehouses
CSV, JSON, Parquet“Hiring signals let us identify companies that are actively investing before they even publish an RFP. We reach decision-makers while the budget is still being allocated.”
Platform Partner
Head of Data, Enterprise Sales Platform
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