Talent Acquisition Critical Skills Pipeline Sourcer

Role overview

This position sits within strategic talent intelligence and focuses on building strong, future-ready candidate pipelines for the organization’s most critical and difficult-to-fill skill areas. The role works at the crossroads of market research, relationship building, and data-driven recruiting to help ensure hiring teams have qualified talent ready before roles open.

It is a proactive and research-heavy sourcing role for someone who enjoys uncovering hard-to-find talent, cultivating communities ahead of demand, and turning market insights into practical hiring actions.

What you will do

• Create and run multi-channel sourcing plans to develop ready-now and ready-next talent pipelines for priority and emerging skill areas.
• Find, engage, and convert passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, GitHub, Boolean search, professional communities, industry events, and referral-focused outreach.
• Build and maintain segmented talent pools for niche, high-priority, and hard-to-fill positions, keeping them active and updated over time.
• Carry out deep market mapping and competitive talent research to identify target employers, talent clusters, compensation patterns, and candidate profiles.
• Share ongoing talent market insights with TA leaders and hiring managers, including supply-demand trends, competitor hiring behavior, and new skill requirements.
• Turn research findings into sourcing recommendations that support workforce planning and hiring timelines.
• Work closely with TA leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to understand staffing plans, headcount forecasts, and changing capability needs.
• Act as a subject matter expert on talent availability and market conditions for assigned critical skill areas.
• Use data and pipeline reporting to help shape sourcing strategy and align hiring expectations.
• Develop long-term relationships with prospective candidates through tailored outreach, sharing relevant content, and ongoing community engagement.
• Support a strong candidate experience at every step so that pipeline members feel valued whether or not there is an immediate opening.
• Keep ATS and CRM records accurate and current, including candidate details, activity logs, and engagement history.
• Monitor sourcing metrics such as pipeline coverage, conversion rates, time-to-engage, and source-of-hire performance.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in talent sourcing, recruiting, or talent acquisition, with a record of building pipelines for technical or other critical skill roles.
• Practical experience using sourcing platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, or similar tools.
• Strong Boolean search ability and a track record of finding passive candidates who are not easy to reach.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create personalized outreach that gets responses.
• Ability to juggle multiple pipelines, stakeholders, and priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Desired background

• Exposure to workforce planning or talent intelligence work.
• Familiarity with CRM platforms such as Beamery, Phenom, or Avature, and ATS tools such as Workday, Greenhouse, or iCIMS.
• Experience with employer branding, talent marketing, or recruitment marketing initiatives.
• Background in a corporate talent acquisition setting, RPO, or high-volume sourcing role.

Additional information

Applying for this role indicates interest in this position and may also place the candidate in consideration for other similar opportunities where matching skills and requirements are identified. If a fit is found, contact may be made for this and future openings.

The role supports remote work. This is full-time remote telework, meaning the selected employee will work remotely from a location outside a designated office or job site. Periodic travel to a company office for meetings may be required.