Find IT 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 "IT Directors, 10+ years' experience, 1-2 years in role, ITIL certified, Azure skills, at banks and credit unions with 201-1K staff in GA, FL or the Carolinas. Skip Salesforce customers." becomes 9 filters (Job title: IT Director, Director of Information Technology, Years in role: 1-2 years, Total years experience: More than 10 years, Skills: Microsoft Azure, Certifications: ITIL, Industry: Banking, Company headcount: 201-500, 501-1K, State / province: Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Exclude: Current customers), previews about 75 people and adds them to the list Southeast bank IT leaders.
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How does Cleanlist AI find IT director email addresses?
Cleanlist AI locates verified IT Director email addresses through a waterfall that includes IT professional community databases, MSP directories, technology conference attendee records, and certification authority (CompTIA, ISACA, Cisco) alumni databases alongside standard B2B providers. Each email gets an SMTP check before you see it and catch-all domains are flagged, so you only send to addresses that passed. Fewer bounces means fewer security alerts tied to your domain.
Why this is hard to do by hand
IT Directors make or heavily influence 67% of technology purchases at companies under 1,000 employees (Spiceworks, 2025 State of IT). They buy security, cloud, SaaS, managed services and IT consulting, and they also run the email filters. IT leaders use domain allowlists and sandbox tools more than other executives, and many set routing rules that bounce senders they don't know. Guessing an IT Director's address is risky: the bounce can trip a security alert and get your sending address blacklisted.
67% of mid-market tech purchases run through the IT Director
Spiceworks' 2025 State of IT report surveyed 1,400 IT decision-makers. At companies with 100 to 1,000 employees, the IT Director holds purchasing authority for 67% of technology purchases, so for security, cloud, SaaS and managed services sellers in the mid-market, no contact matters more. IT Directors are also the hardest executives to email. They write their own filtering rules, often run custom domain setups and are trained to treat unsolicited email as possible phishing. A 2025 Barracuda Networks study found 41% of cold emails to IT departments get quarantined before any person sees them. Cleanlist AI SMTP-checks each address before you send, so your bounces don't add to the problem, and a phone number on the same row gives you another way in.
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
Find companies that fit your ICP
Enter a company name, or filter People Search by industry, headcount and location. IT spend and the tools a company runs aren't filters; a Smart Agent column can research them for a shortlisted account.
- 02
Filter for IT leadership titles
Cleanlist AI treats IT Director, Director of IT, Director of Information Technology, VP IT, Head of IT, CIO and IT Manager as one role.
- 03
Review deliverability flags
Each result shows its verification status and flags catch-all domains, role-based addresses and disposable ones. Send only to the addresses that passed.
- 04
Research each account
Add a Smart Agent column that reads each account's public footprint for its cloud providers and security tools, and use the answer to tailor the pitch.
- 05
Export and segment
Download the email, phone number and company details, then split the list by verification status before it goes into a sequence.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| IT professional database coverage | Limited to LinkedIn + company websites | 25+ providers, checked in sequence |
| Catch-all and risky domains | No visibility until the bounce | Flagged before export |
| Tools the account runs | A BuiltWith or Wappalyzer subscription | A Research skill column looks it up per account |
| Risk of domain blacklisting | High (pattern-guessed emails trigger security alerts) | Lower (every address SMTP-checked first) |
| MSP and MSSP coverage | Poor (not well-indexed by major B2B tools) | Covered by the same 25+ provider waterfall |
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 I avoid getting blacklisted when emailing IT Directors?
Send only to verified addresses, warm up your sending domain before any volume, and never cold email from a brand-new domain. IT Directors run tools like Proofpoint and Mimecast more than other executives, and those tools quarantine unknown senders. Cleanlist AI SMTP-checks every address and flags catch-all domains, so you send fewer of the bounces that trip them.
What is the best subject line approach for cold emailing an IT Director?
Name a specific security threat, a compliance requirement or a tool they already run. Gong's 2025 email analysis found IT Directors respond best to those, while generic lines like 'Quick question' or 'Partnership opportunity' get under 2% open rates. Mentioning their current stack lifts opens to 8-12%, and a Research skill column can research that stack per account.
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.
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.
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