--- title: "Hiring signals: B2B intent signals from job postings - JobsPipe" description: "Save a search over millions of live job postings and get an email, a Slack message or a webhook when a company starts hiring the team that buys from you." canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/signals --- # Know the week a company starts hiring for what you sell. By [Dvir Atias](https://jobspipe.dev/about) · Updated Oct 27, 2026 Hiring signals are the B2B intent signal you can check. Save the search that describes your accounts, and we watch millions of live job postings and tell you by email, Slack or webhook when a company newly matches. [Create your first Signal](https://jobspipe.dev/signup?ref=signals-hero)[Book a demo](https://jobspipe.dev/book?ref=signals-hero) Three Signals free. Signals never use credits. Workflows · builder Alert me when financial services companies in the US start hiring for Kubernetes search\_jobsskills kubernetes · industry 64, 65, 66 · in USchecking volume · volume checked Financial services + Kubernetes hires, US Alerts once per company that starts hiring · within hours AI relevance check: _Financial services companies adopting Kubernetes in their own technology infrastructure_ Email · daily digestCreate workflowCreated Watching · new matches land in Signals Platform Engineer ![](https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=eftsure.com&sz=32)Eftsure · United States Today Enterprise Integration Security Architect ![](https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=statestreet.com&sz=32)State Street · Clifton, NJ Today Senior Software Engineer ![](https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=freddiemac.com&sz=32)Freddie Mac · McLean, VA Today Email Slack alert.matcheddelivered within hours of the posting going live ## How it works Workflows · builder Alert me when financial services companies in the US start hiring for Kubernetes search\_jobsskills kubernetes · industry 64, 65, 66 · in USchecking volume · volume checked Financial services + Kubernetes hires, US Alerts once per company that starts hiring · within hours AI relevance check: _Financial services companies adopting Kubernetes in their own technology infrastructure_ Email · daily digestCreate workflowCreated Watching · new matches land in Signals Platform Engineer ![](https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=eftsure.com&sz=32)Eftsure · United States Today Enterprise Integration Security Architect ![](https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=statestreet.com&sz=32)State Street · Clifton, NJ Today Senior Software Engineer ![](https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=freddiemac.com&sz=32)Freddie Mac · McLean, VA Today Email Slack alert.matcheddelivered within hours of the posting going live 1. 01Say what you want to hear about Pick filters such as titles, skills, countries or company size, and add an intent in plain English. AI checks every new match against it and drops the ones that do not fit. [Set up a signal](https://jobspipe.dev/signup?ref=steps-signal) 2. 02Only what is new, once Choose every new matching job, or companies the first time they start hiring. Each posting or company is delivered once per Signal. [Get free API key](https://jobspipe.dev/signup?ref=steps) 3. 03Into your CRM, sequencer or code Webhooks post each match as JSON, and the same postings are one API call away when you want to enrich or backfill. [Read the docs](https://docs.jobspipe.dev) 4. 04Manage signals from your agent The MCP tools create\_signal and list\_signals set up and review Signals from Claude or any MCP client. [Connect your agent](https://jobspipe.dev/mcp-server) ## Why teams build on JobsPipe ![](https://jobspipe.dev/icon.png) > Every team I spoke to that wanted to build with job data ended up building scrapers instead. So I decided we would do that work once. [Read why we built it](https://jobspipe.dev/about) ![Dvir Atias, founder of JobsPipe](https://jobspipe.dev/authors/dvir-atias.jpg) Dvir AtiasFounder, JobsPipe Job boards and ATS platforms in one schema 30+ ![](https://jobspipe.dev/favicons/greenhouse.png)![](https://jobspipe.dev/favicons/lever.png)![](https://jobspipe.dev/favicons/workday.png)![](https://jobspipe.dev/favicons/linkedin.png)![](https://jobspipe.dev/favicons/indeed.png)![](https://jobspipe.dev/favicons/ashby.png) Of posting history 12 mo On every plan Free credits to start, no card 1,000 Credits charged for a signal 0 Ways in: API, MCP server and dashboard 3 ## Two ways teams use it These are real postings that matched each of these Signals. Senior Analytics Engineer Super.comUnited States1,145 employees ### The account just started building the team that buys your product. Content intent tells you somebody at a company read something. A job posting tells you the company committed budget to a problem and said so in public. If you sell data infrastructure, a company opening two analytics engineering roles has told you more than any bidstream ever will. Watch: companies over 200 people, hiring analytics engineer or data platform roles, in the US or Canada. Fires when a new account enters that set. Backend Engineer (Mid to Senior Level) CHAMPCleveland, US227 employees ### The companies that just started hiring in your specialty. The best time to reach a hiring manager is the week the role opens, before they have committed to an agency or filled the top of the funnel. Watching a specialty across every board means you hear about the opening rather than finding it on a Friday sweep. Watch: companies of 50-500 people, hiring backend engineers, in the US or Canada. Fires once per company, not once per posting. ## What are intent signals? An intent signal is anything that suggests a company is getting ready to buy. B2B teams usually mean one of four kinds, and they differ most in whether you can check them yourself. | Kind | What it is | What it tells you | How you check it | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | First-party | Visits, demo requests and product usage on your own site and app | Someone at the account is looking at you | Your own analytics | | Third-party research | Topics an account's employees read across publisher sites, scored by a data provider | Someone is reading about your category | You can't: the provider scores it | | Review-site research | Product pages and comparisons viewed on software review sites | The account is comparing vendors | The review site reports it | | Hiring | Job postings the company published under its own name | The company has budget and a team forming around a problem | Open the posting | Hiring is the only one of the four a company states in public, under its own name, with a date. That makes it the easiest to verify and the easiest to explain: your first line can quote the posting. Comparing vendors of the other kinds? See [intent data providers](https://jobspipe.dev/intent-data-providers). Building on the raw postings instead? See the [hiring signals API](https://jobspipe.dev/hiring-signals-api). ## Examples of buying signals in job postings Six postings that tend to come before a purchase, each with the Signal that watches for it. - ### The first SDR or account executive A company that hires its first sellers is building outbound from nothing: sequencing, data, a CRM and a dialer all follow within months. Titles: sales development representative, account executive. 20-200 people. New companies only. - ### A RevOps or Salesforce admin Someone is being hired to own the CRM. Data hygiene, enrichment, routing and reporting tools land on their desk in the first quarter. Titles: revenue operations, Salesforce administrator. 50-1,000 people. - ### Data engineering roles opening A company hiring data and analytics engineers is building or rebuilding its warehouse, pipelines and BI layer, and buying the tools that go with them. Titles: data engineer, analytics engineer. 200+ people. Fires when a new company enters the set. - ### The first posting that names a tool A company's first posting asking for Snowflake, NetSuite or HubSpot experience says it is adopting that tool. Partners, integrators and competitors all want to know. Technology adoption Signal on the tool you care about, checked about once an hour. - ### The first customer success manager A first CSM means the company now has enough customers to lose. Onboarding, support and customer success platforms are next on the list. Titles: customer success manager. 20-200 people. New companies only. - ### The first security or compliance hire A first security engineer or GRC lead usually arrives with a SOC 2 or ISO audit on the calendar, and the tooling budget that comes with it. Titles: security engineer, GRC, compliance manager. 50-500 people. ## Where it lands - ### Email The matched jobs with company, title, location and a link to the posting. Instant or a daily digest. - ### Slack Posted into the channel you choose through an incoming webhook, so the whole team sees the account move. - ### Webhook An HMAC-signed alert.matched payload into your CRM, your scoring model, or an agent that acts on it. ## What can a Signal watch for? Signals run on the same corpus the search API serves, normalized into one schema. A Signal can narrow on any of these. Role Job title, occupation code, or the skills named in the posting. Company size Minimum and maximum employee count. Industry ISIC division, so you can scope to a sector rather than guessing from names. Geography Country, with location resolved from the posting rather than the board's label. Source Narrow to the boards and ATS platforms you care about: name the ones you want and the rest are left out. Intent, in plain English Optional. Describe a good match, such as "companies adopting NetSuite in their own stack, not consultancies", and AI checks every new match against it and drops the ones that don't fit. Technology adoption The first time a company's postings name a technology with enough evidence, reported once per company and checked about once an hour. What it cannot narrow on, at least today: funding stage, revenue, and whether a company sells to businesses or consumers. Those are not in the dataset, and a filter that silently matches nothing is worse than one that does not exist. ## Is there free intent data? Hiring signals can be. On the Free plan you can run three Signals by email, and Signals never use credits on any plan, so watching costs nothing until you want to pull postings through the API. Slack and webhook delivery start at Builder; see [pricing](https://jobspipe.dev/pricing). ## Questions teams ask us. ### What are hiring signals? A hiring signal is a job posting that tells you something about a company's plans: a first SDR means outbound is starting, data engineers mean a warehouse is being built. JobsPipe watches millions of live postings from 30+ sources and tells you when a company newly matches the search you saved. ### How are hiring signals different from bidstream intent data? Bidstream and other third-party intent data infer interest from what an account's employees read, and a provider scores it for you. A hiring signal is a posting the company published under its own name, with a date, so you can open it, check it and quote it in your first line. ### What counts as a new match? The first time a posting enters the JobsPipe corpus. We stamp that moment when the posting is first collected and never move it, so a repost, a refreshed record or added history does not re-fire an alert you have already seen. In company mode a company fires once for the lifetime of the Signal, however many roles it goes on to post. ### How quickly does a Signal fire after a job is posted? New postings reach the corpus in batches a few times a day, and the alert evaluator deliberately waits behind that so a slow source cannot cause a match to be missed entirely. In practice a Signal fires within a few hours of the posting appearing, not within seconds. If you need the raw feed with no waiting, poll the search API directly. ### Do Signals use my job credits? No. Evaluating a Signal does not draw down your monthly jobs, and neither does previewing one before you save it. You are billed for the searches you run against the API, not for the ones we run on your behalf. ### Can I send Signals to HubSpot or Salesforce? Through the webhook. Point it at your own endpoint or at an automation tool, and write each match into your CRM from there; the docs include an n8n template. Slack and webhook destinations start at Builder. ### Can I filter by funding stage, revenue, or whether a company is B2B? Not today. Signals filter on what the dataset actually holds: role, skills, employee count, industry, geography and source. Funding stage and revenue are not in the data, and we would rather say so than let you build an ICP on a field that is quietly empty. ### How many Signals can I run? Three on Free and Seeker, ten from Builder up to 300,000 credits a month and fifty from 300,000. Email works on every plan; Slack and webhook destinations start at Builder. ## Further reading - [Introducing Signals: stop checking whether a company started hiring](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/introducing-signals) - [Workflows: describe what to watch, and get told when it posts](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/workflows) - [Hiring-signal intent](https://jobspipe.dev/glossary/hiring-signal-intent) - [Sales trigger events, ranked by how early job postings surface them](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/sales-trigger-events) - [JobsPipe for Slack: search live job postings without leaving the channel](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/jobspipe-for-slack) --- Try it with no key: `curl -d '{"limit":3}' https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search`. AI agents: the full machine-readable index of this site is https://jobspipe.dev/llms.txt?src=md-twin - API quickstart, MCP server, pricing. Free key (1,000 jobs to start): https://jobspipe.dev/signup