Hiring signals API: detect buying intent from job postings

A company hiring its first VP of Sales is about to buy CRM and sales tooling. A company posting five DevOps roles is about to spend on infrastructure. Job postings are the earliest public, machine-readable buying signal that exists - and the stream is enormous: in one recent 3-day window we indexed 591,805 new postings. This guide shows how to turn that stream into signals with an API call, and where the dedicated signal vendors fit.

The one-call version

A hiring signal is a filtered slice of the postings stream. Watch for RevOps hiring in your target market:

curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "job_title_or": ["revenue operations", "revops"],
    "posted_at_max_age_days": 7,
    "job_country_code_or": ["US"],
    "include_total_results": true
  }'

Every row carries the company name (100% of rows), the company domain on the majority of enriched rows, and headcount where known - enough to route straight into a CRM. One credit is one job returned, and a blur_company_data preview sizes any query for free before you spend.

Three signal patterns that work

• First-hire signals - a title the company has never posted before (first RevOps lead, first security engineer) signals a new budget line. Query by title, group by company, alert on companies appearing for the first time.
• Velocity signals - five engineering postings this month from a company that averaged one signals a funded team. Use posted_at_max_age_days windows and compare counts.
• Stack signals - postings mentioning a competitor’s product name in the description are accounts in-market for your category. Combine description_or filtering with the tech-stack scanner to confirm what the company actually runs.

Where Signalbase and Autobound fit

The dedicated signal vendors sell the layer above this. Autobound publishes 23 department-level hiring signals across 21M+ companies, updated weekly, delivered by REST or flat file. Signalbase reads hiring intent from postings and social posts in real time. Both are good products if you want signals pre-modelled and are happy with their taxonomy and cadence. Build on the raw stream instead when your signal definition is your edge - the queries above are yours to shape, the data is deduplicated at the source, and webhook delivery means new postings push to you rather than waiting for a weekly refresh.

Start with the free tier - 1,000 jobs per month covers a daily watch on a few hundred target accounts. The search API guide documents every filter used above.