Apollo
Prepared for Qualified · 2026-05-13
Setup & Operating Guide

New Hire Workflow

Detects when a contact in your workspace changes jobs, confirms you own the new account, and waterfall enriches a fresh email at the new company. Every job change becomes a clean signal with a working email on day one.

For
Angelo Quiambao + the AE team
From
Nick Sproul, Apollo GTME
Status
Built live on 2026-05-13

What this workflow does

When a contact in your Apollo workspace changes jobs to a new company, Apollo automatically detects the change, confirms the new account is one you own, pulls a fresh email at the new company via waterfall enrichment, and adds the contact to a list so your team can act on the signal.

The result: every time someone in your CRM moves to a new role, you get a clean, enriched record at the new account without anyone manually checking LinkedIn.

Why this matters for Qualified

Job changes are one of the highest-intent buying signals in B2B. A former champion at one Salesforce-using account who lands at another Salesforce-using account is already pre-qualified for your ICP. This workflow surfaces those signals automatically and gets you a working email on day one of the new role.

Built live on the call

We configured this workflow together on 2026-05-13. It is saved and ready to run. Let it sit for a week, then read the output and tell me what you see. If the filter pulls noise, we'll tighten it.

Why this matters even more now

Post-Salesforce acquisition, you mentioned the strategic shift toward net new prospecting. Job-change signals at Salesforce-using accounts are exactly the lane this workflow lives in. It compounds: every champion who moves into your ICP becomes a warm signal you would otherwise miss.

The workflow we built

Five-stage automation. Each stage fires automatically. No human in the loop until the contact lands in the list.

Motion walkthrough
Trigger → Filter → Enrich → List → Notify
Auto-playing · 6-second loop · Rendered with Remotion
Reference diagram (static)
01 TRIGGER Job Change Contact moves company 02 FILTER Owner Account owned by Angelo 03 ENRICH Waterfall Pull email at new company 04 LIST Add Drop into job-change list 05 NOTIFY Slack Optional ping on enrichment

Configuration we saved

ComponentSetting
TriggerContact job change detected
FilterAccount owner is Angelo Quiambao
Action 1Waterfall enrich email at new company
Action 2Add enriched contact to list
Optional Action 3Slack notification on enrichment success

The current filter pulls only accounts you own as the AE. If you want the workflow to fire on accounts owned by your BDR partners or other AEs, that filter needs to change. See "Tune & Extend" for the three common variants.

How to verify it is running

Three checks. Each takes under a minute. Do all three within 48 hours of activation.

CHECK 01
Open the workflow
Apollo > Workflows. Find "New Hire Job Change" or whatever you saved it as. Confirm the toggle is on.
CHECK 02
Check the run log
Click into the workflow. Run log should show entries within 24 to 48 hours of activation if anyone in your contacts has changed jobs recently.
CHECK 03
Open the output list
Workflow adds enriched contacts to a dedicated list. Open the list. You should see new entries appearing as job changes fire.

How to read the output

The list shows:

From there your team can:

What to watch for in the first two weeks

WATCH 01
Enrichment hit rate
Waterfall returns an email on most job changes but not all. If hit rate drops below 60 percent, ping me and we'll look at signal quality.
WATCH 02
Wrong-account routing
If contacts get enriched to accounts that aren't actually new jobs (LinkedIn data lag), the filter or trigger may need tightening.
WATCH 03
Duplicate enrichments
If the same contact gets enriched multiple times, the deduplication setting on the list may need a look.

Tune the filter

The current filter fires only on accounts you personally own. Three common variants you may want next. Each is a one-minute change in the workflow editor.

VARIANT 01
Fire on accounts owned by named AEs
When: you want to give a small group of senior AEs the same automation.
Filter changes from "owner is Angelo" → "owner is one of [list of AEs]"
VARIANT 02
Fire on accounts in a specific stage
When: you want to focus only on accounts currently in an active opportunity.
Filter becomes "owner is Angelo AND account stage is Open Opp"
VARIANT 03
Fire on all accounts in your workspace
When: you're scaling net new prospecting post-Salesforce acquisition.
Remove the owner filter entirely. Note: this uses significantly more credits.

Credit usage expectations

Each enrichment costs credits depending on what gets returned. Rough math:

Credit usage check

I'm pulling your team's actual usage this week. If anyone is bumping the cap, I'll flag it and make the case for an uplift.

How to extend this workflow

Once this one is stable, the natural next builds are:

  1. Job change to sequence. Auto-enroll enriched contacts in a job-change sequence in Outreach (or Apollo, when you migrate).
  2. New company research. Trigger your Relevance AI agent to pull a research brief on the new company the moment the enrichment lands.
  3. Account ownership routing. If the new company is not currently owned, route to the AE whose territory it falls in.

All three are doable today. We started with the foundation.

Open questions for you

Three things to confirm or decide before we extend.

1. Does the filter we set today pull the right accounts?
Let it run for a week, then tell me what you see. If the AE vs. BDR ownership filter creates noise, we'll tighten it.
2. Slack notifications on every enrichment, or only top-tier ICP accounts?
Defaulting to every enrichment is the safe start. Once you see volume, you may want to filter notifications to high-priority accounts only.
3. Variants this week, or wait for results?
Do you want me to help with the filter variants this week, or wait until you've seen a week of results from the current setup?
Send me one number

After a week, tell me how many contacts landed in the list and how many felt like real signal. That single ratio tells us whether the filter is right.