Extract Sales Navigator Employees Distribution

Sales Navigator Company Headcount Extractor extracts company employee distribution and tracks headcount growth.

Edges is not related to LinkedIn and is not an official LinkedIn product.

API Endpoint

POST/v1/actions/salesnavigator-extract-employees-distribution/run/live

Parameters

Input Parameters

Integration Parameters

Guide

What Extract Sales Navigator Employees Distribution does

Extract Sales Navigator Employees Distribution breaks a company's workforce into structured buckets — by function, seniority, geography, and growth trend — and returns them as typed JSON you can feed into scoring, reporting, or targeting. You get the same view Sales Navigator shows in the insights panel, but as data your stack can actually query.

It runs on the Sales Navigator level and reads company insights through your connected Sales Navigator seat.

How it works

You pass a Sales Navigator company URL or ID. Edges signs the request with your authenticated Sales Navigator session, loads the company's insights payload, and maps each distribution bucket into a stable schema with counts and percentages. The action runs on Edges infrastructure with safe rate-limiting, so you do not need to manage cookies, retries, or pacing.

Because the output is structured per-bucket, you can diff runs over time to track how the shape of a company changes, not just its size. That makes this action the natural companion to raw headcount extraction when you want the "why" behind the number.

When to use Extract Sales Navigator Employees Distribution

Reach for Extract Sales Navigator Employees Distribution when headcount alone is too coarse. Knowing that an account grew 12% is useful; knowing that the growth sits entirely inside Engineering while Sales shrank 4% is what triggers a different SDR play. This action plugs directly into the LinkedIn profile & company data API workflow.

It is especially effective for persona-specific GTM: if your ICP is RevOps leaders, a company with growing Operations headcount is a sharper signal than global growth.

Use cases

  • Persona-aware ABM scoring. Weight growth in your ICP function higher than global headcount change when scoring accounts.
  • Territory planning. Use geography distribution to allocate AE coverage by region.
  • Expansion plays. CS teams spot new buying centers when a function they do not currently sell into grows 20% year over year.
  • Competitive intel. Track function mix across a competitor set to infer strategic bets.
  • Product-led motion. Prioritize outreach to companies where Engineering or Product grew alongside your target persona.

Best practices

  • Pair with headcount. Combine with Extract Sales Navigator Company Employee Count so every account record has both totals and composition.
  • Normalize function labels. Sales Navigator uses its own taxonomy — map to your internal function codes before scoring.
  • Schedule monthly, not daily. Distribution shifts slowly; monthly snapshots keep your warehouse lean without losing signal.
  • Stay within Sales Navigator usage limits. Edges paces automatically; keep combined manual and automated activity reasonable on each seat.

Common questions

How many companies can I process per run?

One company per run. To process a list, loop the action over results from Extract Sales Navigator Accounts List or a saved search.

Does this use my Sales Navigator account or a shared pool?

Your Sales Navigator seat. Edges executes every request through the session you connect, and all activity is attributable to that account.

Can I chain Extract Sales Navigator Employees Distribution with other Edges actions?

Yes. Most teams pair it with Search Sales Navigator Company Employees to go from distribution to named people in the same flow.

Get started

Run Extract Sales Navigator Employees Distribution from the Edges library, schedule it across your ABM list, or call it directly from the Edges API and pipe the structured output into your warehouse. Browse the full Actions library for the rest of the company intelligence toolkit.

Code Examples

bash
curl -X POST "https://api.edges.run/v1/actions/salesnavigator-extract-employees-distribution/run/live" \
  -H "X-API-KEY: <YOUR_API_KEY>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "identity_ids": [
    "your-identity-uuid"
  ],
  "identity_mode": "direct",
  "input": {
    "sales_navigator_company_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example-profile",
    "custom_data": "example_value"
  }
}'

Output Example

{
  "sales_navigator_company_id": "example-123",
  "total_employee_count": 42,
  "departments": [
    1,
    2,
    3
  ]
}

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