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Signal key

internal_promotion

Category

People

Source

Person Professional Network profile (title and company fields).
Someone was promoted to a more senior title at the same company.

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When it fires

Trigger condition

Same current_company, current_title changed, AND the new title contains a seniority keyword (senior, lead, principal, staff, head, director, vp, chief) the old title didn’t.

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Magnitude

Moderate to high depending on the new seniority level.
For the full bucket definitions used across percentage-based signals, see Magnitude buckets.

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Why it matters

Promotions often come with expanded authority and budget. A newly promoted leader frequently gets a mandate, a budget, and a desire to make their mark, prime conditions for evaluating new tools. A champion’s promotion can also strengthen an existing deal.

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How to use Internal Promotion Signal?

The scenario. You are a CSM at an expense-management platform. At your mid-market accounts, the person who actually runs your product is rarely the person who signed the contract, and your best expansion deals have always started with a champion who gained power. The goal. Catch the moment a hands-on user at one of your accounts gets promoted into budget authority, and convert that promotion into expansion. The signal fires. internal_promotion fires at Gorse & Gray, a 450-person architecture firm and a healthy but flat account. Your day-to-day contact, the finance manager who runs every report, is now Finance Director. What it tells you. Your product just gained an executive advocate without a single meeting. Newly promoted leaders want early, visible wins in their first quarter, and expanding a tool they already trust is the lowest-risk win available to them. The play.
  1. Congratulate them like a human first. Then, separately, book a “what changes in your new role” call.
  2. Come armed with their own usage data: the hours saved, the close time improvement, the adoption curve. Hand them the internal business case pre-written.
  3. Propose the expansion they always wanted but could not approve: the extra modules, the second department, the annual plan.
  4. Update the account map. Your old champion seat is now empty one level down, so start cultivating their successor too.
Automate it. Sync your named contacts at customer accounts to the People Signals API and the Job Changes API with type=promotion. Every promotion inside your book of business lands in your CS inbox the week it happens. The payoff. Expansion revenue usually waits for a renewal conversation. Promotion-triggered expansion happens mid-cycle, at higher win rates, because the buyer is selling for you.

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How to read it

New authority

Promotions expand budget and decision power.

Mandate to act

New leaders want early wins and may buy to get them.

Champion boost

An existing champion’s promotion strengthens your position.

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Outreach playbook

Warm signal. If the promoted person is a known contact, re-engage with the new mandate.

Lateral Title Change

Someone changed title at the same company without a seniority change.

VP Hire

A new VP-level leader joined the company.

C-Suite Hire

A new C-level executive joined the company.

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