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# VP Hire

> A new VP-level leader joined the company.

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Signal key" icon="code">
    `vp_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 VP-level leader joined the company.

## When it fires

<Card title="Trigger condition" icon="bolt">
  `employee_joined` AND the new title contains VP, Vice President, or Head of.
</Card>

## Stored fields

This signal persists the following metadata you can read downstream:

| Field           | Description                |
| --------------- | -------------------------- |
| `meta.function` | The function the VP leads. |

## Magnitude

High, VPs typically own functional budgets.

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

## Why it matters

VP hires frequently own budget for their function. A new VP of a function often gets a budget and a mandate to build, making them an ideal buyer, especially when the function maps to your product. Feeds executive\_team\_buildout.

## How to read it

<CardGroup cols={1}>
  <Card title="Functional budget">
    VPs own and deploy budget for their area.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Build mandate">
    New VPs are equipped to evaluate and buy tools.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Function match">
    meta.function tells you if it maps to your product.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Outreach playbook

<Tip>
  High-priority when the function matches. Reach out in their first quarter.
</Tip>

## Related signals

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="VP Departure" href="/buying-signals/signals/people/vp-departure">
    A VP-level leader left the company.
  </Card>

  <Card title="C-Suite Hire" href="/buying-signals/signals/people/c-suite-hire">
    A new C-level executive joined the company.
  </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>

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

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