Searching by job title (and why CFO finds Chief Financial Officer)

Titles are the messiest field in any B2B dataset. The same person is a CFO in one company, a Chief Financial Officer in the next, and a Finance Director in a third. Argorant's title matching is abbreviation-aware, so searching CFO also matches Chief Financial Officer, and searching the long form also matches the abbreviation. You do not have to type both.

• Comma-separate to match any of several titles. CFO, Finance Director, Head of Finance returns people holding any one of them, not people holding all three.
• Keep each entry short. Fragments travel better than full strings. Head of Marketing matches more real-world variants than Global Head of Marketing and Communications.
• Think in the language of the market. If you are targeting a non-English market, include the local variants alongside the English ones in the same comma-separated list.

Titles and seniority answer different questions. A title says what someone does, seniority says how far up they sit. Use titles when the function matters, seniority when the authority matters, and both when you need a specific function at a specific level.

If a title search returns far more people than you expected, the usual cause is a short fragment matching inside longer titles. Tighten it, or use title exclusions to cut the noise.