Key Takeaway
Past Role extracts structured professional data from any LinkedIn profile URL — including headline, experience, education, skills, and certifications — at 1 credit per run. It is part of SyncGTM's 75+ enrichment library and is available via CLI and MCP.
What is Past Role Action?
Past Role is a data enrichment action that retrieves a person's previous job titles and companies from their professional work history. Given a LinkedIn URL or a name and company combination, SyncGTM queries premium providers to return a structured list of prior positions including titles, employers, and dates. This action is essential for understanding a prospect's career trajectory and identifying alumni networks.
Sales and marketing teams use Past Role data to find warm paths into accounts, identify former champions who have moved to new companies, and personalize outreach with references to shared professional history. The action is part of SyncGTM's waterfall enrichment library, ensuring high match rates and up-to-date results across industries and geographies.
This action uses waterfall enrichment to query multiple premium data providers in sequence, delivering higher match rates than single-source alternatives. Learn more about how waterfall enrichment works.
How it works
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Provide a LinkedIn profile URL or the person's full name and current company.
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SyncGTM resolves the person's identity and retrieves their work history from multiple data providers.
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The action returns a list of previous roles including job title, company name, start date, and end date.
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Use the results to identify career patterns, alumni connections, or trigger outreach based on past employers.
Use cases
Champion Tracking
Identify when a former customer champion moves to a new company. Their familiarity with your product makes them a warm lead at their new employer.
Alumni Network Outreach
Find prospects who previously worked at a company that is already a customer. Reference their shared history to build trust and start conversations.
Career Trajectory Analysis
Understand a prospect's career path to gauge their seniority progression and decision-making authority. Tailor your pitch to match their experience level.
Input
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| linkedin_url | string | No | The person's LinkedIn profile URL. |
| full_name | string | No | The person's full name. |
| company_name | string | No | The person's current company for identity resolution. |
Output
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| past_roles | array | List of previous positions with title, company, start date, and end date. |
| total_roles | number | Total number of past roles found. |
| linkedin_url | string | LinkedIn profile URL. |
Related enrichments
Current Role
Look up a person's current job title and company from their LinkedIn profile.
Enrich Person
Get a full person profile including current role, company, location, and social links.
Enrich LinkedIn Profile
Get full details from a person's LinkedIn profile including headline, summary, experience, and skills.
Job Start Date
Find when a person started their current role to gauge tenure and timing.
Person Location
Look up a person's current city and country from their professional profile.