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Signal key

employee_departed

Category

People

Source

Person Professional Network profile (current company field).
A person left this company for another.

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When it fires

Trigger condition

A person’s current_company changed from this company to another. Attributed to the company they left.

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Magnitude

Bucketed on role seniority; executive departures rank far higher. Buckets are assigned from the percentage change between snapshots:

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Why it matters

Departures can open gaps and create urgency. A departure may remove a champion or open a role you can influence, and it’s the foundation for c_suite_departure, founder_departure, and the churn composites.

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How to use Employee Departed Signal?

Where you sit. You are an SDR at a market-data platform. A third of your booked meetings come from a handful of engaged contacts, and when one of them leaves their company, two things break at once: the relationship and the pipeline attached to it. The mission. Turn every contact departure into two plays instead of one problem: backfill the empty seat, and follow the person who left. The signal fires. employee_departed fires on your best contact at Quarry Analytics, the research lead who opened your last three meetings there. She has left the company. What it tells you. First, the Quarry relationship is now unowned, and whoever replaces her will pick their own vendors. Second, she is about to start somewhere new, where she can champion you from day one, before any competitor knows she exists. The play.
  1. At Quarry: find the interim owner of research, reference the work you did together, and re-establish the thread before the account goes cold.
  2. With the leaver: wait until her new role is public, then reach out personally. People remember the vendors who treated them like people, not job titles.
  3. When her new company appears, qualify it. If it fits, you have a warm account; if it does not, you still kept a relationship that will fit eventually.
  4. Record both motions under the same signal tag so you can see, in a quarter, how much pipeline departures actually generate.
Automate it. Run your named contacts through the Job Changes API with type=company_change monthly, and let the People Signals API catch the rest. The output is a fresh follow-the-champion list with zero manual tracking. Why this works. Churned contacts are usually written off as bad luck. Tracked properly, they are one of the cheapest sources of net-new accounts you will ever get.

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How to read it

Gap created

Departures can remove champions or open influence windows.

Composite fuel

Underpins c_suite_departure, founder_departure, churn signals.

Re-map needed

Lost champions mean re-qualifying the account.

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Outreach playbook

Base layer. Track executive departures closely; they reshape buying committees.

C-Suite Departure

A C-level executive left the company.

Founder Departure

A founder left the company.

Key Role Vacancy

A senior role stayed unfilled for 60 days.

Leadership Churn Spike

Multiple senior leaders departed in a short window.

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