To find anyone at a company on LinkedIn, open the company's LinkedIn Page, click the **"People"** tab, and use the search-and-filter box to narrow by job title, location, school, or keyword — this shows you the employees LinkedIn can associate with that company. For a more targeted employee search, use the main search bar, type the company name, switch to the **People** tab, and apply filters for **Current company**, **Title**, **Location**, and **Connections**. That combination lets you find a specific role — say every "account executive" or "VP of engineering" at one company — in a few clicks, for free. This guide walks through both methods step by step, the free vs. paid limits you'll hit, the Boolean tricks that make searches precise, and how to do it at scale without manually clicking through hundreds of profiles.
Method 1: The company "People" tab (fastest for one company)
Every LinkedIn company Page has a **People** tab, and it's the quickest way to browse a single employer:
1. Search the company name and open its Page. 2. Click **People** in the Page's navigation. 3. Use the filter boxes to sort by *where they live*, *what they do*, *what they studied*, and a free keyword search.
LinkedIn shows aggregate breakdowns too — top titles, locations, and skills across the workforce — which is a fast way to understand how a company is structured before you reach out. The limitation: you only see people within your network's visibility, and the free keyword search is fairly blunt.
Method 2: People search with filters (best for a specific role)
When you know the *type* of person you want across one or several companies, the main search is stronger:
1. Type a role or keyword in the top search bar and press Enter. 2. Click the **People** filter tab. 3. Open **All filters** and set **Current company**, **Title**, **Location**, **Industry**, and **Connections** (1st, 2nd, 3rd).
This is how you answer questions like *"Who runs marketing at these five companies?"* Combine **Current company** with a **Title** filter and you've isolated exactly the decision-makers you care about. Our [complete guide to LinkedIn search](/guides/linkedin-search) and the [advanced-search filter reference](/guides/linkedin-advanced-search) go deeper on every filter available.
Boolean search: get precise, get fewer junk results
LinkedIn's search bar understands Boolean operators, which turn a vague search into a surgical one:
- **Quotes** for exact phrases: `"head of sales"`
- **AND** to require both terms: `marketing AND director`
- **OR** to widen: `CEO OR founder OR "managing director"`
- **NOT** to exclude: `engineer NOT intern`
- **Parentheses** to group: `(VP OR head) AND (marketing OR growth)`
Example: to find senior marketing leaders while excluding junior staff, try `("head of marketing" OR "marketing director" OR CMO) NOT (assistant OR coordinator)`. Boolean works in the title and keyword fields and is the single biggest upgrade to search quality most people never use.
The free vs. paid reality: the "commercial use limit"
Here's the wall you'll eventually hit. LinkedIn caps how much searching a free account can do each month — the **commercial use limit** — and when you cross it, search results get restricted until the calendar resets. LinkedIn doesn't publish an exact number, and it's based on activity that looks like recruiting or prospecting.
Paid tiers lift the ceiling:
- **[LinkedIn Premium](/guides/linkedin-premium)** raises limits and adds some search visibility.
- **Sales Navigator** adds far more granular filters (seniority, company headcount, years in role) and no standard commercial-use cap — see [Sales Navigator cost](/guides/linkedin-sales-navigator-cost) for whether it's worth it.
If you're doing employee search occasionally, free is fine. If it's a core part of your week, you'll want either a paid tier or a purpose-built tool.
Finding employees at scale (without 300 manual clicks)
The manual methods above are perfect for finding a handful of people. They fall apart when you need *every* qualifying employee across a target list of companies — that's an afternoon of clicking, copying, and losing your place.
This is exactly what Conextly does for LinkedIn. Point it at a company or a role, and it finds the matching employees, organizes them into a workspace, tracks who you've contacted, and drafts a tailored first message to each — you just approve every send. It's employee search, list-building, and follow-up in one place, without the copy-paste. Take a look at [Conextly's prospecting search](/product/search).