AI Title Normalization for CRM: Seeking Advice from RevOps Experts
👋 Hey RevOps friends — looking for some AI/data advice! We’re working on a project to normalize job titles into consistent “title buckets” for our CRM, and would love to tap into your collective wisdom on how to approach it. Here’s the idea: We have ~30,000 unique job titles from various lead sources, with many small variations pointing to the same kind of role. For example:
Dir. Career Counselling → Decision Maker
Director Career Counselling → Decision Maker
Dir, Career Counselling → Decision Maker
Career Counselling Director → Decision Maker
Our goal is to train an AI model that can automatically assign each new title we import to the right bucket, without relying on exact matches. Ideally, something like “Dir. Career Counsel” would still correctly map to “Decision Maker” based on the model’s training. We’re stuck on where to start:
Is there a preferred approach for this kind of title classification using AI?
Should we be looking at custom models, fine-tuning existing LLMs, or is there a more practical way?
What would the step-by-step process look like to build and train this, especially for a small team with limited ML experience?
Appreciate any pointers, similar projects you've tackled, or resources we should check out! 🙏