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Work Milestone Signals

3 signal subtypes covering job changes, promotions, and work anniversaries across 4M+ contacts. 25M+ milestone records emitted since January 2026, each with full transition context and confidence scoring.

4M+

Contacts Covered

3

Signal Subtypes

Monthly

Refresh Cadence

25-50% of contacts

Coverage Rate

Workforce Intelligence3 subtypes · Monthly refresh

What Are Work Milestone Signals?

Work milestone signals capture three career events for 4M+ contacts: job changes (jobChange), internal promotions (promotion), and work anniversaries (workAnniversary). Autobound compares LinkedIn profiles against historical snapshots weekly and has emitted 25M+ milestone records since January 2026, roughly 3M per month.

Each signal includes the event date, months since the event, new and previous job titles with descriptions, company details, locations, and a confidence score; anniversary signals add the milestone year (a 3 or 5-year anniversary, for example). Promotions and anniversaries make natural, non-salesy openers: congratulating a VP on five years earns replies that cold pitches never will.

Example Signal Subtypes

jobChangepromotionworkAnniversary

Data Schema

Work Milestone Signal Schema

Work milestone signals include event date, months since event, new and previous job titles with descriptions, company details, job locations, work anniversary year, and confidence score.

work_milestones.schema.json
{
  "signal_id": "a41c7de2-6f38-4b9a-8c15-2d90e4f7a638",
  "signal_type": "workMilestone",
  "signal_subtype": "promotion",
  "detected_at": "2026-07-14T13: 22: 44Z",
  "association": "contact",
  "contact": {
    "name": "Jennifer Park",
    "linkedin_url": "linkedin.com/in/jennifer-park-strategy",  // match on LinkedIn URL
    "title": "VP of Corporate Strategy"
  },
  "company": {
    "name": "Salesforce",
    "domain": "salesforce.com",  // or match on domain
    "linkedin_url": "linkedin.com/company/salesforce"
  },
  "data": {
    "event_date": "2026-01-05",
    "months_since_event": 6,
    "new_job_title": "VP of Corporate Strategy",
    "new_job_description": "Leads corporate strategy, M&A evaluation, and strategic partnerships across Salesforce's CRM and AI product lines.",
    "previous_job_title": "Senior Director, Strategy & Operations",
    "previous_job_description": "Drove go-to-market strategy for the Einstein AI suite across product, sales, and partnerships.",
    "company_name": "Salesforce",
    "company_domain": "salesforce.com",
    "previous_company_name": null,  // null for promotions: same company
    "previous_company_domain": null,
    "new_job_location": "San Francisco, California, United States",
    "previous_job_location": "San Francisco, California, United States",
    "founded_new_company": false,
    "work_anniversary_year": null,  // populated only for workAnniversary
    "confidence": 0.9
  }
}
GCS Bucket
gs://autobound-work-milestones/
Formats
JSONL · Parquet
Refresh
Monthly

Applications

What teams build with Work Milestone Signals

04 documented applications

  1. 01

    Relationship Building at Scale

    Congratulating prospects on work milestones creates warm, positive touchpoints. 'Congrats on 5 years at Autobound!' is a natural opener that leads to conversations about their evolving needs.

  2. 02

    Timing Executive Outreach

    Long-tenured executives (5-10+ years) have deep institutional knowledge and budget authority. Milestone signals identify the ideal moment to initiate a relationship that feels personal.

  3. 03

    Customer Success Engagement

    Track work milestones for your existing customers' contacts. Celebrating their milestones strengthens the relationship and creates natural opportunities for upsell conversations.

  4. 04

    Champion Retention Monitoring

    Monitor milestone dates for your internal champions. A contact approaching their 3-year anniversary may be considering a move, getting ahead of potential job changes protects your account relationships.

Measured, Not Estimated

What's actually inside Work Milestone Signals

Volumes, subtypes, geography, and join-key fill rates audited directly from our production database, so you can verify coverage before you buy.

Measured coverageaudited from production · minimums, not ceilings
3,299,735
contacts with fresh data / month
basis: 90-day window /3
3,686,050
records created / month
basis: published baseline

Top subtypes

3 total
Work Anniversary23M · 89%
Job Change1.8M · 7.1%
Promotion969K · 3.8%
Staff8.4M · 52%
Manager2.7M · 17%
C-Suite1.3M · 8.0%
Director942K · 5.8%
VP688K · 4.2%
Consultant102K · 0.6%
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+Full schema & examples →

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Worked Example

One signal, traced to outcome

One Work Milestone 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

01

Signal detected

A VP of Sales at Zoom is approaching her 5-year anniversary, a signal emitted one month before the milestone, with start date and current title context.

02

Action taken

An executive coaching firm reaches out:

Congrats on 5 years leading sales at Zoom, that kind of tenure through hypergrowth is rare. We work with leaders at your stage who are thinking about what's next. Worth a conversation?
03

Outcome

Reply received the same day

Because the outreach felt genuinely celebratory and career-aware, not transactional.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What are work milestone signals?
Work milestone signals track career tenure moments, upcoming anniversaries, recent milestones, and years-at-company data, for 4M+ contacts. Autobound calculates tenure from LinkedIn start dates and emits signals at key thresholds (1, 3, 5, 10+ years). Each signal includes start date, milestone type, current employer context, and whether the milestone is upcoming or just passed.
How does Autobound detect work milestone signals?
Autobound calculates tenure for 4M+ contacts based on LinkedIn profile start dates, refreshed monthly. When a contact approaches or passes a milestone threshold, a signal is emitted with the milestone type, event date, months since event, and current employment context. Coverage reaches 25-50% of tracked contacts depending on LinkedIn profile completeness.
How should I use work milestone data in my outreach?
Lead with genuine congratulation, not a sales pitch. 'Congrats on 5 years at Company X' creates a warm opening. Follow up with a light value offer, 'we work with leaders at your stage', rather than jumping into product features. Milestone outreach is a long-game strategy that builds relationships leading to deals over weeks or months, not days.

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.

01

Autobound Ingests

Raw data from Job boards, LinkedIn profiles, company filings is continuously collected and normalized across millions of sources.

02

AI Extracts & Scores

ML models extract 3 signal subtypes with relevance scoring, confidence levels, and entity resolution.

03

You Receive

Structured JSONL delivered via your preferred method, updated on a monthly cadence.

REST API

Real-time access with subtype filtering

300 req/min

GCS Push

Automated delivery to your bucket

JSONL + Parquet

Enrich API

On-demand LLM-ranked insights

AI relevance scoring

Flat File

Bulk exports for data warehouses

CSV, JSON, Parquet
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Platform Partner

Head of Data, Enterprise Sales Platform

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