# 🎯 LinkedIn Job Post ➔ Hiring Manager & Email Extractor (`automation_studio/linkedin-job-hiring-manager-finder`) Actor

Extract the direct Hiring Manager, Head of Talent, or Department Decision-Maker from any LinkedIn Job Post with verified corporate B2B email and personalized outreach hooks.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation\_studio/linkedin-job-hiring-manager-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [Automation Studio](https://apify.com/automation_studio) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $14.00 / 1,000 hiring contact & job extracteds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 🎯 LinkedIn Job Post ➔ Hiring Manager & Recruiter Contact Extractor

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> **Stop sending cold pitches and applications into the generic HR black hole.** Extract the direct Hiring Manager, Head of Talent, or Department Decision-Maker who published any LinkedIn job post — complete with verified corporate work email (`first.last@company.com`) and personalized cold outreach hooks.

***

### ⚡ The Problem: Why 98% of Job Inquiries & Agency Pitches Fail

When a company posts an open role on LinkedIn, they are **spending budget and urgently hiring**. But outbound sales reps, recruitment agencies, and job seekers usually:

- Email `jobs@company.com` or `careers@company.com` (which get dumped into an ATS trash bin).
- Submit resumes through applicant portals with <2% response rates.
- Pitch generic info boxes where the department decision-maker never sees it.

**The Solution**: Pitch or contact the **person holding the hiring budget** directly at their verified work email.

***

### 🚀 The 3-Tier "Zero-Empty-Lead" Engine

| Tier | Name | What It Does | Guarantee |
| :---: | :--- | :--- | :---: |
| **Tier 1** | **Direct Job Poster Extraction** | Scrapes the public job post (`/jobs/view/{id}`) to extract the direct recruiter or hiring manager from the "Meet the hiring team" card. | Exact author profile |
| **Tier 2** | **Intelligent Decision-Maker Fallback** | When an employer hides the job poster (~40% of jobs), our engine identifies the corresponding department authority (e.g. *VP of Engineering* for software roles, *Head of Growth / CMO* for marketing roles, or *Lead Recruiter*) at that company. | **0% Empty Leads** |
| **Tier 3** | **Enterprise B2B Email Verification** | Resolves the official corporate domain, generates standard corporate permutations, checks enterprise pattern databases, and validates deliverability via zero-send SMTP handshakes. | **Verified Deliverable Email** |

***

### 🌟 Key Features

- 🎯 **Direct Recruiter & Hiring Manager Profiles**: Extracts Full Name, Title, and LinkedIn Profile URL.
- 📧 **Verified Corporate B2B Emails**: Finds direct work emails (`jane.doe@company.com`) with DNS MX validation, enterprise pattern detection, and SEC EDGAR cross-referencing.
- ✍️ **Tailored Cold Outreach Hooks**: Automatically writes contextual subject lines and opening hooks referencing the open job role.
- 🔒 **100% Cookieless & Account Safe**: Zero LinkedIn login, cookies, or session tokens required. 0% ban risk.
- 🚫 **Zero Third-Party Dependencies**: 100% first-party native HTTP engine — no expensive sub-scrapers or hidden API costs.
- ⚡ **Ultra-Fast & Memory Efficient**: Runs in **512MB RAM** and completes default test runs in under **15 seconds**!

***

### 🛡️ The "No Email, No Pay" Guarantee

We believe you should only pay for verified, actionable data that drives real results.

- **No Email Found? You Pay $0.00**: If our 3-tier engine cannot uncover and verify a deliverable corporate email for a contact, the email delivery event charge **never triggers**.
- **Deliverability First**: Every email goes through syntax verification, corporate MX record validation, enterprise format pattern matching, and real-time SMTP handshakes. Catch-all or undeliverable addresses are filtered out and protected by our zero-waste billing logic.
- **Fair & Transparent**: You only ever pay for valid, high-confidence corporate emails delivered straight to your dataset.

***

### 💰 Transparent Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing

| Event | Price (USD) | Description |
| :--- | :---: | :--- |
| **Actor Start** | `$0.001` | Charged once upon run initiation. |
| **Hiring Contact & Job Extracted** | `$0.020` | Base dataset item charge for job + decision-maker profile. |
| **Verified Work Email Delivered** | `$0.025` | **Charged ONLY when a deliverable corporate email is found.** ($0.00 if missing or undeliverable!) |
| **Total per fully enriched lead** | **`$0.045`** | **95% cheaper than ZoomInfo or Apollo ($0.50–$1.50/contact)!** |

***

### 📥 Input Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :--- |
| `mode` | String (`select`) | `"BY_URL"` | Extraction mode: `BY_URL` (direct job links) or `BY_KEYWORD` (auto-discover active job postings by keyword). |
| `jobUrls` | Array | `["..."]` | Direct LinkedIn job post URLs (used when `mode` is `BY_URL`). |
| `searchKeyword` | String | `"Head of Growth"` | Job title or keyword to discover active postings automatically (used when `mode` is `BY_KEYWORD`). |
| `companyName` | String | `""` | Optional company filter (e.g. `"Stripe"`, `"HubSpot"`). |
| `location` | String | `"United States"` | Location or country filter. |
| `maxJobs` | Integer | `3` | Maximum job postings to process per run (1–200). Default is 3 for fast <15s trial results. |
| `findVerifiedEmail` | Boolean | `true` | Enables corporate email discovery and deliverability verification (protected by "No Email, No Pay"). |
| `generateOutreachHooks` | Boolean | `true` | Generates tailored cold email opening pitch hooks. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Object | `{ "useApifyProxy": true }` | Uses native Apify Proxy for high-speed page retrieval. |

***

### 📊 Sample Output Dataset Item

```json
{
  "hiringManagerName": "Sarah Jenkins",
  "hiringManagerTitle": "VP of Growth & Marketing",
  "hiringManagerLinkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahjenkins-growth",
  "verifiedWorkEmail": "sarah.jenkins@fintechleader.com",
  "emailStatus": "VERIFIED",
  "confidenceScore": "99% (Real-Time SMTP Deliverable)",
  "deliverable": true,
  "companyName": "Fintech Leader",
  "companyDomain": "fintechleader.com",
  "jobTitle": "Head of Growth",
  "jobLocation": "New York, NY (Hybrid)",
  "jobUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4028591823",
  "matchTier": "TIER_1_DIRECT_JOB_POSTER",
  "coldEmailSubject": "Quick question regarding Fintech Leader's open Head of Growth role, Sarah",
  "coldEmailHook": "Hi Sarah, noticed your role as VP of Growth & Marketing at Fintech Leader and that your department is actively hiring for the Head of Growth position. We partner with high-growth organizations to deliver verified, high-intent talent and pipeline without lengthy recruiter back-and-forths. Are you open to a brief 2-minute conversation later this week to see if we can assist your hiring timeline?",
  "mxProvider": "Google Workspace",
  "emailFormat": "first.last"
}
```

***

### 🏆 Comparison: Us vs. Competitors

| Feature | Competitor Scrapers | Apollo / ZoomInfo | **This Actor** |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| **Corporate Work Email** | ❌ (0 emails) | ⚠️ (Often outdated) | ✅ **100% Live SMTP Verified** |
| **Hidden Recruiter Fallback** | ❌ (Empty result) | ❌ (Manual search) | ✅ **Tier 2 Decision-Maker Engine** |
| **Cold Outreach Pitch Hooks** | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ **Custom-Tailored per Job** |
| **Pricing per Lead** | $0.02 (name only) | $0.50 – $1.50 | **$0.045 (Complete Enriched Lead)** |
| **Zero Third-Party Dependency** | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ **100% Native Code** |
| **Run Speed** | 2–5 minutes | Slow | **<15 seconds default** |

***

### 🛡️ Fair Use & Privacy Guarantee

All data is retrieved from publicly indexed information and validated using standard mail-server DNS MX lookups and zero-send handshakes. No private LinkedIn credentials, sessions, or cookies are ever required.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Select your extraction mode: Target specific LinkedIn job postings via direct URLs, or automatically discover active job postings by Role / Keyword.

## `jobUrls` (type: `array`):

Active when Input Mode is 'Direct LinkedIn Job URLs'. Paste one or more direct LinkedIn job post URLs (e.g. `https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/head-of-growth-at-stripe-4028591823`).

## `searchKeyword` (type: `string`):

Active when Input Mode is 'Job Role / Keyword Search'. Keyword or role to search (e.g. 'Head of Growth', 'VP of Engineering', 'Account Executive').

## `companyName` (type: `string`):

Optional: Filter jobs to a specific company (e.g. 'Stripe', 'HubSpot', 'Airbnb'). Leave blank in keyword mode to search across all companies.

## `location` (type: `string`):

Location filter for job search (e.g. 'United States', 'San Francisco, CA', 'London, UK', 'Remote').

## `maxJobs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of job postings to analyze and extract hiring contacts for in this run. Default is 3 for instant <15s trial results.

## `findVerifiedEmail` (type: `boolean`):

Resolve company domain, generate corporate permutations, and verify work email deliverability with DNS MX checks and pattern intelligence. Protected by our 'No Email, No Pay' guarantee.

## `generateOutreachHooks` (type: `boolean`):

Automatically craft customized, high-converting cold email subject lines and conversational opening hooks tailored to the specific job posting.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Number of job postings processed in parallel. Keep at 3–5 for optimal speed and reliability.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy ensures smooth, high-speed public page resolution without rate limiting.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "BY_URL",
  "jobUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/head-of-growth-at-stripe-4028591823"
  ],
  "searchKeyword": "Head of Growth",
  "companyName": "Stripe",
  "location": "United States",
  "maxJobs": 3,
  "findVerifiedEmail": true,
  "generateOutreachHooks": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing verified hiring contacts, corporate emails, and outreach hooks

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "mode": "BY_URL",
    "jobUrls": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/head-of-growth-at-stripe-4028591823"
    ],
    "searchKeyword": "Head of Growth",
    "companyName": "Stripe",
    "location": "United States",
    "maxJobs": 3
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("automation_studio/linkedin-job-hiring-manager-finder").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "mode": "BY_URL",
    "jobUrls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/head-of-growth-at-stripe-4028591823"],
    "searchKeyword": "Head of Growth",
    "companyName": "Stripe",
    "location": "United States",
    "maxJobs": 3,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("automation_studio/linkedin-job-hiring-manager-finder").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "mode": "BY_URL",
  "jobUrls": [
    "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/head-of-growth-at-stripe-4028591823"
  ],
  "searchKeyword": "Head of Growth",
  "companyName": "Stripe",
  "location": "United States",
  "maxJobs": 3
}' |
apify call automation_studio/linkedin-job-hiring-manager-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,automation_studio/linkedin-job-hiring-manager-finder"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/UAXMQobdmaHkTpow4/builds/1jjUUSdLLzdqpN1r4/openapi.json