Understanding Department and Role Mapping

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Demandbase uses the Title field for a person (Lead or Contact) from your CRM, Marketing Automation System (MAS), or CSV import to determine their Department and Role.

Important: Department and Role Mapping comes from your integration data, and is different from Demandbase Buying Group Personas and Roles.

Department Mapping

The following table shows how Demandbase maps people to a Department based on words in the Title field.

Important

  • If a person already has a Department value from your CRM, Marketing Automation System (MAS), or CSV import, Demandbase uses that value instead of the default mapping. This may result in additional Departments appearing in Demandbase.
  • Title matching is not case-sensitive.

Title

Department in Demandbase

CMO, Marketing, SEO, ABM, Content, Demand Marketing
CSO, Sales, Sale, Business, Account Executive Sales
President, CEO, COO, Officer, Board, Chairman, Chairwoman, Owner Administration
Developer, Designer, Engineer, CTO, Technology, Engineering, Quality R&D
CFO, Financial, Accountant, Accounting, Controller Finance
CHRO, HR, Human Resources HR
Counsel, Legal, Attorney, Contracts Legal
CIO, IT, CISO IT
Customer, Support, Service Service
All other titles Other

Role Mapping

The following table shows how Demandbase maps people to a Role based on words in the Title field.

Important

  • Once a match is found, Demandbase stops trying to find additional matches.
  • Title matching is not case-sensitive.

Title

Role in Demandbase

Matches any of the following requirements:

  • Begins with C and ends with O
  • Includes Founder or Co-founder
CXO

Matches any of the following requirements:

  • Includes VP, SVP, or EVP
  • Includes General Counsel or General Manager
  • Includes the phrase vice president after all non-alphabetic characters have been removed including spaces and hyphens
VP
Includes director Director
Includes manager Manager
Matches none of the previous requirements Other

Review Departments and Roles

You can see the mapped Department and Roles in the People page in the Analytics section.

Select the Department/Role preset option from the drop-down list.

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If you don’t see the Department and Role columns in the table, click Edit Columns to add them.

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Find People in Other Departments or Roles

To find people in Departments or Roles that Demandbase doesn’t map to, use one of the following methods:

  • Create a person filter to search for people with the Departments or Role in their Title. See Create and Save Filters
  • Create a segment for people with the Departments or Role in their Title. See Create and Manage Segments.
  • Use your own Department or Role fields in the People Heatmap by clicking Custom and selecting it from the Row or Column drop-down lists.
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