Talent Acquisition Critical Skills Pipeline Sourcer

Lockheed Martin Corporation is seeking a Critical Skills Talent Pipeline Sourcer to support hiring in Fort Worth, TX with remote flexibility. This role focuses on talent intelligence and research-led sourcing to help TA teams build strong candidate pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill skill areas across the organization.

In this position, you will partner with TA leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to turn market insights into practical sourcing plans, while maintaining long-term relationships with passive talent. You will also ensure pipeline activity, profiles, and engagement history are accurately captured in the organization’s ATS and CRM.

What you will do

• Design and execute multi-channel sourcing strategies to build robust ready-now and ready-next pipelines for critical and emerging skill areas.
• Identify, engage, and convert passive candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, GitHub, Boolean search, professional communities, industry events, and targeted referral campaigns.
• Build and manage segmented talent pools for high priority, niche, and hard-to-fill roles, keeping pipelines refreshed and engagement active.
• Conduct market mapping and competitive talent research to determine target companies, talent concentrations, compensation benchmarks, and candidate personas.
• Provide ongoing insights to TA leadership and hiring managers on talent supply and demand, competitor hiring activity, and emerging skill trends.
• Translate market intelligence into sourcing recommendations that inform workforce planning and hiring timelines.
• Partner with TA leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to understand workforce plans, headcount forecasts, and evolving skill needs.
• Act as a subject matter expert on talent availability and market conditions for assigned critical skill areas.
• Influence sourcing strategy and hiring expectations through data-backed storytelling and pipeline reporting.
• Develop authentic, long-term relationships through personalized outreach, content sharing, and community engagement.
• Support a positive candidate experience at every touchpoint, including for candidates without an active opportunity.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date pipeline activity, candidate profiles, and engagement history within the ATS and CRM.
• Track and analyze sourcing KPIs such as pipeline coverage, conversion rates, time-to-engage, and source-of-hire effectiveness.
• Use AI prompting as it applies to the position.
• Perform candidate sourcing and recruiting activities, conduct interviews, and refer applicants to specific job openings.
• Evaluate employment factors including job experience, education and training, and skills, knowledge, and abilities relevant to classification, selection, and referral.
• Work with managers to understand job needs and requirements.
• Surface candidates and develop networks using agencies, recruiting contractors, web-based tools, and other resources.
• Prepare ratings on applicants, provide company information, arrange transportation for selected applicants, extend formal job offers, and coordinate with management and HR to support hiring and onboarding.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in talent sourcing, recruiting, or talent acquisition, with demonstrated success building pipelines for technical or critical skill roles.
• Hands-on experience with sourcing tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, or comparable platforms.
• Strong Boolean search skills and the ability to surface hard-to-find passive talent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to craft personalized outreach that converts.
• Proven ability to manage multiple pipelines, stakeholders, and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Technologies

• LinkedIn Recruiter
• SeekOut
• GitHub
• ATS and CRM (within the ATS and CRM)
• Boolean search
• Beamery
• Phenom
• Avature
• Workday
• Greenhouse
• iCIMS

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10)
• 401(k) match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Parental Leave
• EAP
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Education Assistance
• Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
• Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position (not guaranteed; varies by year and tied to performance metrics)
• Paid Time Off and holiday/vacation/sick leave terms vary for Washington state applicants based on representation status

Additional preferred background

• Experience supporting workforce planning or talent intelligence functions.
• Familiarity with CRM tools such as Beamery, Phenom, or Avature and ATS platforms such as Workday, Greenhouse, or iCIMS.
• Exposure to employer branding, talent marketing, or recruitment marketing campaigns.
• Experience in a corporate TA environment, RPO, or high-volume sourcing capacity.

Compensation and location

Location: Fort Worth, TX (remote)

Salary: USD 65,200 - 168,200 per yearly

Salary ranges vary by GeoZone and are listed on the requisition. Lockheed Martin may consider factors including scope and responsibilities, work experience, education/training, key skills, market (work location), and business considerations when extending an offer.