Find HR Director Email Addresses
Search by job title, company or industry, and Cleanlist AI looks up the work email and phone number of each person. On our 500-lead benchmark it returned 98% verified work emails and 85% phone numbers.
Cleanlist AI People Search. The sentence "HR Directors, SHRM certified, Spanish speaking, 5-10 years in role, at PE-owned manufacturers with 501-5K staff in Ohio, Michigan or Indiana. Skip anyone active in HubSpot in 90 days." becomes 9 filters (Job title: HR Director, Director of Human Resources, Years in role: 5-10 years, Languages: Spanish, Certifications: SHRM-SCP, Industry: Manufacturing, Company headcount: 501-1K, 1K-5K, Funding stage: Private Equity, State / province: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Exclude by last activity: Active within 90 days), previews about 90 people and adds them to the list Midwest plant HR leaders.
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How does Cleanlist AI find HR director email addresses?
Cleanlist AI finds direct HR Director email addresses by querying HR professional association databases, SHRM member directories, HR technology community platforms, and industry conference records alongside 25+ standard B2B data providers. Each result gets a live SMTP check and a flag when it goes to a shared HR inbox. Staffing firms can upload thousands of companies in one batch and filter by company size, industry and location.
Why this is hard to do by hand
Staffing agencies, recruiting platforms, HR tech vendors and benefits providers all sell to the HR Director, which makes it one of the most searched B2B contacts. The US staffing industry alone brings in $218 billion a year (IBISWorld), and most of that business starts with an email to HR. A 2025 SHRM survey found the average HR Director gets 84 unsolicited vendor emails a week. So many HR teams filter hard, route mail through shared inboxes (hr@, recruiting@, people@) and keep their leaders' own addresses off public pages.
The $218B staffing industry's biggest bottleneck: finding the right HR contact
The US staffing industry brings in $218 billion a year (IBISWorld, 2025), and nearly every placement starts with an email to someone in HR. Finding that person is the slow part. A 2025 Staffing Industry Analysts survey of 340 staffing firms found recruiters spend an average of 14 minutes per company tracking down the right HR Director, which adds up to 4.7 hours a week per recruiter. On a 20-person team, that is about 94 hours of research every week. In Cleanlist AI each of those searches is one lookup: upload the company list, filter to HR titles, and pay 1 credit for each verified email found.
What a lookup costs
Each lookup walks 25+ providers in cost order, and you're charged once for what comes back: 1 credit for a verified work email, 10 for a phone number, 11 for both. Validation is 0.5 and AI qualification is 5. A lookup that finds nothing is free, and the whole team pays from one wallet.
- Verified work emails25 leads searched23 × 123
- Phone numbersVerified before anyone calls18 × 10180
- Qualification agentFit score with reasons25 × 5125
- 25+Providers queried in cost order on a single lookup
- 98%Verified work emails on our 500-lead benchmark
- 85%Phone numbers found on that same benchmark
- 0Credits for a lookup that finds nothing
How it works.
- 01
Search by company, industry or location
Enter a company name, or filter by location and industry. Add a company size filter to reach the right level of HR leader.
- 02
Select HR leadership titles
Cleanlist AI matches HR Director, Director of Human Resources, VP People, VP HR, Head of People, Chief People Officer and Director of Talent Acquisition.
- 03
Check direct address vs shared inbox
Each result shows whether the email goes to the HR Director or to a department inbox (hr@, people@). Write to the direct ones first.
- 04
Focus on who holds the budget
At smaller companies, a solo HR Director usually controls the budget. At larger ones, filter by seniority to reach the VP or Chief People Officer who signs.
- 05
Export for outreach
Download a CSV with company size, industry and location on each row, or push the list to your CRM or outreach tool.
What you get.
Verified work emails
Cleanlist AI checks each email for deliverability before it comes back, so your rep doesn't waste a send on a dead inbox.
Search by company or industry
Filter by company name, domain, industry, location or employee count.
Phone numbers too
Mobile and office numbers that ring the person's own phone, at 10 credits per number found.
Work contacts only
Cleanlist AI returns work contact data for B2B sales research. It isn't a people finder for private individuals.
14-day Pro trial
Run your first list on Pro: 14 days, 250 credits, 3 seats.
Manual process vs Cleanlist AI.
| Feature | Manual | Cleanlist AI |
|---|---|---|
| Sources checked | Limited to LinkedIn + Google search | 25+ providers in one waterfall |
| Shared inbox detection | No visibility (often returns hr@ address) | Flags shared vs direct addresses |
| Bulk processing for staffing firms | Manual, one-at-a-time research | Thousands of companies in one CSV |
| Geographic filtering | Imprecise (company HQ only) | Filter by HR Director location as well as HQ |
| Verified before you send | No, bounces show up after the send | Live SMTP check on every address |
How accurate is Cleanlist AI's data?
Cleanlist AI returned 98% verified work emails and 85% phone numbers on our 500-lead benchmark, pulling from 25+ data providers. Each lookup stops at the first deliverable result, meaning a verified or likely-valid email.
What do I get when I sign up?
A 14-day Pro trial: 250 credits, 3 seats, and every Pro feature. After it, the Free plan gives you 50 credits a month. A verified work email costs 1 credit, a phone number 10, and a miss nothing.
What data providers does Cleanlist AI use?
Cleanlist AI runs a waterfall across 25+ B2B data providers. For each record it asks one, moves to the next when that one has no match, and stops at the first deliverable result.
Can I connect my CRM?
Yes. HubSpot and Salesforce sync both ways on the Pro and Enterprise plans, and Salesloft and Lemlist take a one-way push. You can also upload a CSV, or use the REST API from Pro.
Is this data GDPR compliant?
Cleanlist AI returns work contact data for B2B sales research and isn't a people finder for private individuals. Whether your outreach meets GDPR depends on how you use the data, so check your program with counsel.
How do staffing agencies find HR Director emails in bulk?
Upload a CSV of company names or domains, filter by industry and location, and Cleanlist AI finds the HR Director at each company. A verified email costs 1 credit and a miss costs nothing. Plans start at $49 a seat a month for 750 credits.
What is the best time to email an HR Director?
Tuesday or Wednesday, between 8 and 10 AM their time. That window had the highest HR Director open rates in Yesware's 2025 analysis of 12 million B2B emails. Mondays bring a weekend backlog and Fridays wind down early. Q1 and Q3 tend to respond best, when annual planning and mid-year budget reviews put vendor decisions on the table.
Do HR Directors prefer email or phone for initial vendor contact?
Email. SHRM's 2025 vendor engagement survey found 72% of HR Directors prefer email as the first contact from a vendor. HR tech vendors that followed up with a call within 48 hours got 2.3x the meeting rate, so it helps to have the verified email and the phone number on the same row.
Describe the job once. An agent runs it every week.
Clu turns one sentence into an agent. It searches 1B+ profiles, finds verified emails and phone numbers across 25+ providers, adds the people to your sequence and posts each run to Slack.
Weekly ICP outbound
Built by Clu from: “Every week, find 500 new people who match my ICP, get their emails and phones, and add them to Series B outbound.”
- Searched 1B+ profiles for new ICP matches500 foundPeople Search
- Ran the waterfall across 25+ providers487 emails · 412 phonesWaterfall
- Verified every email and phoneSMTP + catch-allVerification
- Added them to Series B outbound500 peopleSequences
- Posted the run to #pipelineSlackAgents
Friday 4:52 PM15 replies · 5 calls booked
Everything in the 14-day Pro trial
- Clu and agentsDescribe the job in one sentence. Clu builds the agent, runs it on a schedule or a CRM trigger and posts every run to Slack.
- People and Company SearchFind your buyers in 1B+ profiles from one sentence. Searching costs 0 credits.
- Waterfall enrichmentAsk 25+ providers in order and stop at the first verified email or phone number. 98% verified work emails and 85% phone numbers on a 500-lead benchmark.
- Email verificationRun SMTP and catch-all checks on every address before it reaches a sequence, at half a credit an email.
- ICP scoringScore every lead 0 to 100 against your ICP, with the reasons written down. The Research and Qualification skills do the digging.
- SequencesSend email from your reps' own inboxes, with call tasks. A reply stops the sequence. Sending costs 0 credits.
- CRM syncTwo-way sync with HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive. Push finished lists to Outreach, Salesloft and Lemlist.
- Chrome extensionGet a verified email and phone number in one click on LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Salesforce and HubSpot.
- MCP and APIRun the same search and waterfall from Claude or ChatGPT with 36 MCP tools, or from your own code with the REST API.
Agents that run this job
- Weekly ICP leadsEvery Monday, finds new people who match your ICP, checks their work emails and posts the verified ones in Slack.
- New hires at target accountsEvery morning, finds sales and marketing leaders who started at your target accounts in the last 90 days, with their emails and phone numbers.
- Fill missing emailsEvery night, looks up a work email for each CRM contact that has none and writes it to the record.
14 days of Pro, free: 250 credits, 3 seats, agents, Sequences and Clu in Slack. Then Free at 50 credits a month, or Starter at $49 and Pro at $89 a seat a month.
Hand the job to an agent.
Upload a CSV or connect HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive, and run it on your own data today.
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