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# C-Suite Hire

> A new C-level executive joined the company.

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  <Card title="Signal key" icon="code">
    `c_suite_hire`
  </Card>

  <Card title="Category" icon="category">
    People
  </Card>

  <Card title="Source" icon="world">
    Person Professional Network profile (title), joined-company attribution.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

A new C-level executive joined the company.

## When it fires

<Card title="Trigger condition" icon="bolt">
  `employee_joined` AND the new title matches a C-level pattern (Chief \* Officer, CEO, CFO, CTO, CMO, CRO, COO, CISO, CPO, CDO).
</Card>

## Stored fields

This signal persists the following metadata you can read downstream:

| Field       | Description                       |
| ----------- | --------------------------------- |
| `meta.role` | The C-level role that was filled. |

## Magnitude

Hyper-priority, executive hires reshape strategy.

<Note>
  For the full bucket definitions used across percentage-based signals, see [Magnitude buckets](/buying-signals/concepts/magnitude-buckets).
</Note>

## Why it matters

A new executive almost always brings new initiatives and new vendors. New C-suite leaders have a mandate to change things and a budget to do it, the first 90 days are a prime window for tool evaluation. This feeds executive\_team\_buildout and pre\_ipo\_signal.

## How to read it

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  <Card title="New mandate">
    Executives arrive with a charter to make changes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Vendor turnover">
    New leaders often bring or seek new tools.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Composite fuel">
    Underpins executive\_team\_buildout and pre\_ipo\_signal.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Outreach playbook

<Tip>
  Top-tier. Reach out in the first 90 days while the new exec is setting direction.
</Tip>

## Related signals

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  <Card title="C-Suite Departure" href="/buying-signals/signals/people/c-suite-departure">
    A C-level executive left the company.
  </Card>

  <Card title="VP Hire" href="/buying-signals/signals/people/vp-hire">
    A new VP-level leader joined the company.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Executive Team Buildout" href="/buying-signals/signals/composite/executive-team-buildout">
    A company rapidly built out its leadership team.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Sales Leader Hire" href="/buying-signals/signals/people/sales-leader-hire">
    A new sales leader joined the company.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Engineering Leader Hire" href="/buying-signals/signals/people/engineering-leader-hire">
    A new engineering leader joined the company.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

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