Audience

Lusha Dataset: 15,000+ U.S. companies expanding their marketing teams

Tools: Lusha

Marketing hiring is a strong sign that a company is investing in growth, brand awareness, customer acquisition, or market expansion. As marketing teams grow, so does the need for advertising platforms, creative services, data, automation, content, analytics, and campaign technology.

This dataset covers U.S.-headquartered companies in Lusha’s 51–500 employee bands showing a recent surge in marketing hiring, verified and continuously updated. Whether you sell marketing technology, agency services, customer data, media, or recruiting support, it helps you find companies already increasing their go-to-market capacity.

What you’ll get back — live company sample

Sxx-AFTRA

Los Angeles, CA · 201–500 employee band · Entertainment

Zaxxxs

Atlanta, GA · 201–500 employee band · Restaurants and food services

Chxxx

New York City, NY · 51–200 employee band · Business services

HaxxxrOne

San Francisco, CA · 201–500 employee band · Cybersecurity

BexxxrHelp

Mountain View, CA · 201–500 employee band · Digital healthcare

Real companies from the Lusha API, July 2026. 15,094 total companies matched this exact search.

Use cases

1

Marketing technology and automation

Companies expanding their marketing teams may need new systems for campaign automation, attribution, analytics, customer data, personalization, lead management, and reporting.

2

Agencies and creative services

Marketing growth can create demand for paid media, brand strategy, content production, design, video, public relations, events, and specialist campaign support.

3

Data, research, and buyer intelligence

Growing marketing organizations need better audience data, market research, buyer insights, intent signals, and account intelligence to improve targeting and campaign performance.

4

Marketing recruiting and staffing

Recruiting firms can identify companies with growing demand for demand generation, content, product marketing, growth, digital, brand, communications, and marketing operations talent.

How to access this data set

1

In Claude or ChatGPT

With the Lusha connector enabled, ask: “Find U.S. companies with 51–500 employees showing a recent surge in marketing hiring. Give me the CMOs and VPs of Marketing with verified emails.”

2

Via the Lusha API

Use prospecting_company_search with locations: [{"country": "United States"}], sizesFilterOption: [{"min": 51, "max": 200}, {"min": 201, "max": 500}], and signals: {"names": ["surgeInHiringByDepartment"], "filterByDepartment": [{"department": "Marketing", "startDate": "2026-01-29"}]}.

FAQ

  • A marketing hiring surge indicates increased hiring activity within a company’s marketing department. It can signal investment in demand generation, brand growth, customer acquisition, product marketing, content, or market expansion.

  • This dataset covers marketing hiring activity detected during the previous six months. Results are continuously updated as new hiring signals become available.

  • The dataset includes U.S.-headquartered companies in Lusha’s 51–200 and 201–500 employee bands.

  • Depending on your use case, you can search for:

    • Chief Marketing Officer
    • VP of Marketing
    • VP of Demand Generation
    • Head of Growth
    • Head of Product Marketing
    • Director of Marketing
    • Director of Marketing Operations
    • Head of Content
    • Head of Brand
    • Head of Marketing Talent Acquisition
  • No. The audience includes B2B and B2C companies across technology, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, retail, business services, and other industries.

    You can add industry or business-model filters to narrow it to your target market.

  • The Lusha hiring signal applies to the broader marketing department. You can then search for specific roles such as demand generation, content, growth, product marketing, digital marketing, or marketing operations.

  • Yes. Combine the marketing hiring signal with industry, sub-industry, city, state, revenue, employee count, technologies used, or additional company signals.

  • Not necessarily. It indicates increased investment in marketing talent, but it does not confirm an active purchase or specific budget.

    Combine it with funding, company growth, IT spend, leadership changes, and relevant contact data to prioritize outreach.

  • Yes. After identifying matching companies, use Lusha to find relevant marketing leaders and reveal available verified business emails and phone numbers.

  • Lusha provides business data in accordance with applicable privacy and data-protection requirements. Visit the Lusha Trust Center for more information about privacy, compliance, and data practices.

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One data connection. Works in Claude, ChatGPT, your CRM, or any agent you build.