Hiring Signal Leads: decision makers at companies hiring for the roles you choose

Tell us which jobs the companies should be hiring for. Get the decision makers of the companies that posted them, checked one by one and enriched with 45+ person and company fields, with emails verified in real time on demand. You only pay for profiles that match.

A company that is hiring has a budget, a need and a deadline. A company hiring SDRs is building its sales machine. A company hiring data engineers is investing in data. This Actor turns those job posts into a ready-to-contact list of the people who own the decision, not the recruiter who posted the ad.

Why this Actor

	Hiring Signal Leads	Job scrapers	Hiring manager finders
What you get	Decision makers at companies hiring for your roles, with the actual job post	Job posts, then you find the people yourself	One contact per job post you paste
Input	The job titles companies are hiring for. That's it.	Search URLs or keywords	Job post URLs, one by one
Quality control	Every person checked against the role you want to reach before delivery, off-target people removed	None	None
Who you reach	The leaders of the hiring team (VP Sales for a sales hire, CTO for an engineering hire) plus founders, or the roles you choose	The recruiter or nobody	Usually the recruiter
Emails	Optional real-time verification, pay only for verified ones	Rarely	Often $25 to $30 per 1,000 extra
LinkedIn account or cookies	Not needed	Sometimes	Often required
Speed	About 10 to 20 profiles in about a minute	Varies	One post at a time

Best fit for:

• agencies selling recruiting, staffing or outsourced teams (SDR, dev, design, support)
• SaaS selling to teams that are growing (sales tools to companies hiring sellers, data tools to companies hiring data engineers)
• consultants and freelancers who want to reach companies with a real, current need
• any outbound campaign where timing matters

Quick start

1. List the jobs the companies should be hiring for, for example Sales Development Representative and Account Executive.
2. Choose how many qualified profiles you want, and run. Everything else is optional.

How it works

1. Companies with matching job posts are found among recent LinkedIn job posts, in the countries you choose, if any.
2. Each company is matched with care in a database of hundreds of millions of B2B profiles, so a hiring signal is never attributed to a homonym.
3. The right people are selected: by default the leaders of the department that is hiring (deduced from the job titles) plus founders and CEOs, or the roles you choose.
4. Recruitment agencies and job boards are excluded by default, because they post jobs for their clients and are not the company with the need (includeRecruitmentAgencies to keep them). Off-target profiles are removed too, at no cost to you: companies outside your exact size range, generic titles that are not a role, and everything you excluded.
5. Every remaining candidate is checked against the role you want to reach. Only the right people are delivered, each with the hiring signal of their company.

Input

Only the first field is required.

Field	Description
jobOpenings	Required. Job titles of the open positions, one per line. Typos, abbreviations (SDR, AE) and other languages are fine: titles are corrected and common variants are added automatically.
maxResults	Number of qualified profiles you want, from 10 to 2000 (default 50, 100 maximum on the free Apify plan).
postedWithinDays	Only job posts from the last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days (default), or any job still open.

Optional sections

Section	Fields
Who to contact	contactRoles: job titles of the people to contact. Default: leaders of the hiring department plus founders and CEOs.
Emails	verifyEmails (paying users only): verify every delivered email in real time.
Refine your targeting	countries, companySizes: only companies in these countries and size ranges. includeRecruitmentAgencies: keep staffing firms and job boards (excluded by default). maxPerCompany: people per company, 3 by default (1 for one contact per company).
Exclusions	excludeCompanies (customers, competitors), excludeLinkedinUrls (people already contacted), excludePreviousResults (datasets of your previous runs: nobody is delivered twice).

Examples

Sales leaders at US companies building their sales team:

{
  "jobOpenings": ["Sales Development Representative", "Account Executive"],
  "countries": ["United States"],
  "companySizes": ["11-50", "51-200", "201-500"],
  "maxResults": 100
}

CTOs of French companies hiring data engineers this month, verified emails, one contact per company:

{
  "jobOpenings": ["Data Engineer", "Analytics Engineer"],
  "countries": ["France"],
  "companySizes": ["51-200", "201-500", "501-1000"],
  "contactRoles": ["CTO", "VP Engineering", "Head of Data"],
  "postedWithinDays": "30",
  "maxPerCompany": 1,
  "verifyEmails": true
}

Every week, only new companies:

{
  "jobOpenings": ["Customer Success Manager"],
  "countries": ["United Kingdom"],
  "postedWithinDays": "7",
  "excludePreviousResults": ["<dataset ID of last week's run>"]
}

Tips

• Don't worry about the exact wording: "acount executiv", "AE" or "commercial" all work. Each title is corrected and its common variants are searched too (Account Executive also finds Sales Executive). You can still list several different roles.
• You get up to 3 people per company by default, so large companies that post many jobs cannot fill your list. Set maxPerCompany to 1 for one contact per company, or raise it.
• Set a country: the job post and the decision maker are then in the same market. Without a country, the search is worldwide.
• A shorter window (24 hours or 7 days) gives the freshest intent, "Any open job" gives the most volume.
• Schedule the Actor weekly with excludePreviousResults to get only the companies that started hiring since your last run.

Output

One row per decision maker, the same 46 columns everywhere: console table, CSV and Excel exports, JSON.

Group	Fields
Hiring signal	intentSignal (the actual job post: title, posting date, other matching open roles), jobPostUrl (link to the job post), roleMatch
Person	fullName, firstName, lastName, linkedinUrl, email, emailStatus
Current role	headline, jobTitle, seniority, department, jobStartDate, timeInRole, jobDescription
Location	location, region, country
Company	companyName, companyWebsite, companyDomain, companyLinkedinUrl, companyIndustry, companySubIndustry, companyEmployees, companySizeRange, companyFounded, companyType, companyMarket (B2B / B2C), companyHqCity, companyHqCountry, companyDescription, companyFollowers, companyNewHires6m, companyTechnologies, companyLogoUrl
Background	about, yearsOfExperience, pastExperiences, education, skills, languages, connections
Technical	linkedinUsername, profilePictureUrl, profileUpdatedAt

Output example

{
  "intentSignal": "Hiring: Senior Account Executive, North America (posted 2026-09-30), +2 other matching open roles",
  "jobPostUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1234567890",
  "roleMatch": true,
  "fullName": "Daniel Brooks",
  "firstName": "Daniel",
  "lastName": "Brooks",
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-brooks-example",
  "email": "daniel.brooks@example-cloud.com",
  "emailStatus": "verified",
  "headline": "VP Sales at Example Cloud",
  "jobTitle": "Vice President of Sales",
  "seniority": "Executive Leadership",
  "department": "Sales",
  "country": "United States",
  "companyName": "Example Cloud",
  "companyWebsite": "https://example-cloud.com",
  "companyDomain": "example-cloud.com",
  "companyEmployees": 240,
  "companySizeRange": "201-500",
  "companyHqCountry": "United States",
  "companyDescription": "Example Cloud builds scheduling software for field service teams."
}

The example is shortened: every row has all 46 columns. The run's OUTPUT record contains the search plan, the number of hiring companies found and matched, the candidates reviewed and removed, and why the run stopped.

Accuracy

The matching and quality-control engine is shared with our Leads Finder Actor, where an independent review of 240 delivered profiles across 8 targets in 4 countries judged more than 8 out of 10 on target. On hiring signals specifically, every delivered profile now comes with the actual job post (title, date and link), so the signal can be checked in one click. Companies are matched to their job posts through their LinkedIn company page: 94 to 100% of hiring companies matched in our tests.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	Price	When it is charged
Qualified profile	$15 per 1,000	For each profile delivered, hiring signal included. Candidates reviewed and rejected cost you nothing.
Verified email	$8 per 1,000	Only when verifyEmails is on, and only for emails that come back verified. Catch-all, invalid and unknown emails are never charged.

Your Apify spending limit is respected: the run stops cleanly as soon as it is reached.

Email statuses

emailStatus	Meaning
verified	The mailbox exists and accepts email. Safe to send.
catch-all	The domain accepts every address, so the mailbox cannot be confirmed. Send with care.
invalid	The mailbox does not exist. The email is removed from the row.
unknown	The mail server did not answer in time.
unverified	verifyEmails was off: the email is the best guess available, not checked.

Free Apify plan

Try the Actor on the free Apify plan with up to 100 qualified profiles per run. Email verification is reserved for paid plans. These limits are set by the Actor developer, not by Apify, and the run tells you when one applies.

Send your leads anywhere

Use Apify integrations to send every new list to your CRM, your sequencing tool, a Google Sheet or a webhook: Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, HubSpot and more, from the Integrations tab of the Actor. Combined with a weekly schedule, you get a steady flow of companies that just started hiring.

For AI agents and automations

Use this Actor when the task is to find people to contact at companies that are currently hiring for given roles. Examples: find sales leaders at companies hiring SDRs, find CTOs at companies hiring engineers, build a list of companies with open jobs and their decision makers.

• Main input: jobOpenings, a list of job titles in English. Optionally narrow with countries and companySizes.
• Output: a dataset of already-checked decision makers, each with a LinkedIn URL, the current role, company data and the hiring signal of their company.
• Freshness: postedWithinDays = "1", "7", "30" (default) or "any".
• Emails: set verifyEmails to true for cold email and keep rows where emailStatus is verified.
• No duplicates across runs: pass the dataset IDs of previous runs in excludePreviousResults.

Call through the API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/jordanesanson~hiring-signal-leads/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jobOpenings": ["Account Executive"], "countries": ["United States"], "maxResults": 50}'

FAQ

Who do I get: the recruiter or the decision maker? The decision maker. By default the leaders of the department that is hiring (deduced from the job titles) plus founders and CEOs, never the recruiter. Set contactRoles to choose the exact roles.

How recent are the job posts? You choose: last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or any job still open. Each profile comes with the actual job post in intentSignal (title and posting date) and its link in jobPostUrl.

Why do I get fewer profiles than requested? Only companies with a matching recent job post can be delivered. Add similar job titles, choose a longer window, or remove country and size filters. You only pay for what was delivered.

Do I need a LinkedIn account, cookies or Sales Navigator? No. Nothing runs on your LinkedIn account.

Are the emails verified? Only if you turn on verifyEmails: each delivered email is then checked in real time, invalid ones are removed, and you pay only for verified ones. Phone numbers are not provided.

What if I misspell a job title or use another language? It still works: titles are corrected, translated to the wording companies use in job posts, and common variants are searched too. The intentSignal column shows the actual job post found.

Which countries are supported? All of them: use countries to choose.

What are the minimum and maximum per run? 10 to 2000 qualified profiles per run on paid Apify plans, 10 to 100 on the free plan.