USE CASE:
Account managers: the honest take on hiring signals
Read this if you need hiring signals for account managers and you would rather see the real options than a pitch. The tools we name are Mamba Labs Apify actors, priced per row, and GTM Hiring Signal Scraper is the one pointed at account managers.
The problem
Account managers and hiring signals: the answer is public, scattered, and nobody has time to collect it. Account managers sit in one function and one seniority band, and both move with company size, and hiring signals inherits that. What catches people out on account managers, hiring signals included: the same title means three different jobs at a startup, a scaleup and an enterprise. There is 1 runnable example of hiring signals for account managers below.
Why anyone bothers
A team advertising for account managers has already lost the argument about budget, which is the part of the sale you usually have to win yourself.
Traditional Search Tools
- The job advert itself, for account managers. Free, and the responsibilities section says what the title actually means there.
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Its hiring filter is decent at company level and tells you almost nothing about which roles. You get the signal without the detail that makes the first line worth reading.
- LinkUp, Revelio or a jobs data vendor. Real coverage, real history, and priced for a data team rather than a two person sales function. Worth it if you are building a product on the data.
- Google alerts on a careers page. Free and unreliable. Most applicant tracking pages render their listings in JavaScript, so the alert never fires.
- Read the job boards yourself. Open the careers page of every account on your list, once a week, and note what changed. It works. It costs about four minutes per company, so a 500 account list is a full time job for one person.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
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- GTM Hiring Signal Scraper1 preconfigured task on this page's job.