Dépisteur, Vigie Créative | Scout, Creative Intelligence

Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group•Montreal, QC

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Within the Creation Department, Creative Intelligence serves as a radar for trends, culture, and innovation. It identifies key influences, emerging signals, collaborators, areas of interest, and new technologies in order to fuel creative processes across the Cirque du Soleil Group. With an editorial approach, it tracks the evolution of creative practices, narrative formats, aesthetics, platforms, and audience behaviors, assessing both what is emerging and what is culturally relevant. Creative Intelligence builds connections between live performance and related disciplines such as design, cinema, visual arts, digital culture, immersive experiences, video games, science, and gastronomy, translating its observations into sources of inspiration for teams: research dossiers, thematic reports, syntheses, short-form formats, visual montages, and recommendations tailored to project needs. It identifies and decodes key events, experiences, and culturally significant moments. It sees technology as a creative vector (AR/VR/XR, AI, interactivity, stage technologies, immersion). Its approach is characterized by a strong sensitivity to contemporary pop culture, the codes and formats of younger generations, emerging scenes, subcultures, and a plurality of cultural perspectives, in order to keep innovation grounded in relevance and resonance with audiences. Reporting to the VP, Creation, this person helps nurture and activate the Cirque du Soleil Group’s creative intelligence in collaboration with the team. They conduct ongoing cultural and technological monitoring, identify key influences, collaborators, and areas of interest, and share their research through an editorial lens. They pay particular attention to manifestations of popular culture as territories of innovation, influence, and storytelling.

Requirements

Relevant experience in research, creative scouting, curation, creative innovation, or a related field. Ability to broaden the radar beyond live performance and dominant trends.
Ability to deliver structured content that responds to real creative needs.
Excellent analytical and synthesis skills, along with intuition and intellectual rigor. Critical thinking, source validation, and the ability to distinguish lasting influence from passing fads.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Adobe, Mac environments, and presentation software.
Very strong command of online research tools and AI tools (specialized research, documentation, and monitoring).
Consumes a high volume of cultural content.
Excellent communication skills, with full bilingual proficiency in French and English, both spoken and written.

Nice To Haves

Experience in live performance, theatre, events, or immersive entertainment is an asset.
Knowledge of another language (particularly an Asian language) is a major asset.

Responsibilities

Identify emerging trends, weak signals, and shifts in creative practices, both local and global. Stay attuned to current events and trends that impact creation.
Connect the dots between live arts disciplines and other fields such as design, cinema, sciences, gastronomy, etc.
Ensure relevant technological monitoring at the artistic and cultural level (AR / VR / XR, stage technologies, immersion, AI applied to creation, interactive installations, new narrative formats).
Identify potential creators/collaborators and areas of interest across a wide range of fields, on an ongoing basis.
Identify visual inspirations and relevant events, locally and internationally, likely to interest different teams (shows, exhibitions, festivals, conferences, ...)
Develop research dossiers tailored to each project: collections of references and evocative projects, visual montages, written reports – targeted themes, synthetic and editorial reports.
Use AI tools from a research and innovation perspective, while maintaining a critical approach to reflection and curation.
Analyze events, experiences, and shows (observations, trends, recommendations).
Work in close collaboration with an internal and external network of creative and technical collaborators.
Maintain an editorial approach: prioritize, contextualize, provide a reading, create a clear editorial line.
Feed Creative Intelligence’s internal content-sharing platforms and tools (SharePoint, Teams, Nest), and ensure proper archiving of documentation.
Make recommendations for collaborators (designer profiles, personalized research documents), content, innovation, and/or format based on project needs.
Participate in brainstorming sessions and working meetings with the creative teams.
Collaborate with other departments (e.g., Casting, Costumes, Marketing, etc.) as needed.
Translate research into applicable directions: concepts, formats, themes.