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Cirque du Soleil

Produces bespoke live entertainment shows worldwide

Vice President Marketing & Ticketing - International & Americas Shows

Marketing Generalist & ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 15 years of experience in marketing, ticketing, sales, or commercial leadership, including international multi-market experience and direct ownership of revenue targets.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate marketing and ticketing as an integrated commercial engine tied to sales, yield, and profitability.
  • Experience in live entertainment, sport, attractions, hospitality, or another business with perishable inventory.
  • Strong understanding of ticketing operations, inventory management, distribution, pricing, and the customer purchase journey.
  • Track record leading leaders and distributed, multi-time-zone in-house teams, including teams embedded with operations.
  • Deep command of paid media strategy and large-scale budget allocation, with rigorous performance measurement.
  • Strong working knowledge of ticketing, inventory, distribution, pricing, and yield systems; ability to partner effectively with customer relationship management specialists, make decisions with imperfect data, and improve performance measurement.
  • Track record appointing, contracting, and governing agencies and external commercial partners across multiple markets.
  • Ability to assess creative work and evaluate sales pacing, inventory position, channel mix, or media models.
  • Executive presence with C-suite leaders, the Board, and major partners.
  • Ability to lead successfully in a matrix organization, balancing functional leadership with regional Commercial Vice Presidents’ operational authority within a North America-based headquarters structure.
  • Fluency in English and willingness to travel frequently across international and Americas markets.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and oversee show marketing strategy across international markets, Americas touring productions, and Americas resident shows.
  • Own the end-to-end demand engine from onsale through launch and sustain, with one demand and revenue plan per show.
  • Set market-entry and market-prioritization logic for new territories, tours, and residencies in partnership with touring and commercial planning.
  • Lead marketing strategy supporting sponsorship, distribution, and business development, including joint go-to-market plans with partners.
  • Lead portfolio ticketing operations and establish consistent standards for event builds, onsales, inventory controls, access, settlement inputs, and operational readiness.
  • Embed ticketing at the beginning of every show and market plan rather than treating it as a downstream execution function.
  • Own the commercial logic connecting inventory availability, price architecture, channel strategy, and demand generation.
  • Improve the ticket purchase experience, reduce friction, and protect customer data quality and direct audience relationships.
  • Partner with technology and operational teams on ticketing platforms, integrations, and capabilities required for commercial performance.
  • Carry full accountability for ticket revenue, attendance, yield, and marketing efficiency across the portfolio in remit.
  • Run a weekly sales, pacing, and yield rhythm to identify softness early and enable intervention during a show run.
  • Partner with the Vice President of Growth & Customer Relationship Management to integrate customer relationship management and lifecycle activity into show plans, and with Revenue Management on pricing architecture, yield strategy, discount governance, and promotional guardrails.
  • Use inventory, sales pace, channel performance, and demand signals to drive coordinated marketing and ticketing interventions.
  • Ensure performance reporting uses consistent, source-traceable definitions across regions and functions.
  • Own ticket distribution and channel strategy with regional commercial teams, balancing reach with margin, customer ownership, and incremental demand.
  • Set principles for direct, partner, group, and third-party channels, with commercial terms and allocations aligned to show economics.
  • Ensure partnerships, tourism, and distribution channels generate incremental demand rather than intercepting demand that would otherwise convert directly.
  • Use channel-level performance, customer quality, and economics to determine inventory and investment allocation.
  • Own global media strategy and allocate media investment across regions, shows, and lifecycle stages.
  • Set measurement standards linking paid media and ticketing outcomes to ticket sales, yield, and contribution, with agreed attribution inputs from Growth & Customer Relationship Management and Communications.
  • Define and manage the international and Americas agency ecosystem, including selection criteria, performance standards, and review cadence.
  • Approve agency appointments, scopes, and budgets proposed by regional marketing leaders.
  • Ensure every show goes to market with a clear, differentiated proposition that is locally and culturally relevant by market and language.
  • Apply the brand strategy and guardrails set by the Senior Vice President of Communications and Senior Director of Brand, maintaining premium creative standards for regional show marketing.
  • Partner with the Senior Vice President of Communications and Communications team so earned media and show social activity support the commercial plan, while Communications ownership remains within that division.
  • Activate creator, influencer, and cultural partnerships that build relevance with new audiences without dependence on discount-led demand.
  • Partner with the Vice President of Growth & Customer Relationship Management to embed customer relationship management and lifecycle marketing in every show plan to support repeat attendance, lifetime value, and owned audience growth.
  • Support the Vice President of Growth & Customer Relationship Management in growing addressable, consented audiences and strengthening first-party data capture through show marketing and ticketing touchpoints.
  • Provide high-quality ticketing and show-performance data to Growth & Customer Relationship Management to support segmentation, targeting, cross-show development, and customer decision-making.
  • Align marketing and ticketing with guest experience and ancillary revenue objectives, including merchandise and premium offers.
  • Act as the central commercial marketing and ticketing counterpart for touring operations, resident-show leadership, finance, legal, technology, and headquarters functions on show and market decisions.
  • Ensure consistency between demand, pricing, ticket inventory, distribution, market execution, and external messaging.
  • Create clear decision rights and operating rhythms across show teams, Ticketing, Growth & Customer Relationship Management, Revenue Management, Brand, Communications, and regional commercial leadership.
  • Represent the portfolio’s demand, sales, and ticketing picture to the Chief Marketing Officer, executive team, and Board.
  • Lead the Senior Director of Ticketing and the three Regional Marketing Directors for EMEA, Touring Americas, and Resident Americas, developing their teams across multiple markets, time zones, and languages.
  • Build a consistent operating model, capability plan, and career path across the function, including onboarding for new tours and openings.
  • Set functional key performance indicators and scorecards tied to business impact, including revenue, attendance, yield, paid mix, channel mix, marketing efficiency, conversion, and launch momentum, aligned with Growth & Customer Relationship Management and the Commercial Vice Presidents.
  • Maintain demanding standards while providing teams with the clarity, tools, and support needed to meet them.

Desired Qualifications

  • Additional languages relevant to key markets, such as French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Japanese, or Mandarin.
  • Experience marketing and ticketing both touring productions and long-run resident shows.
  • Experience with tourism, travel trade, promoter, groups, and third-party distribution partnerships as demand channels.
  • Experience improving ticketing platforms, distribution models, or purchase journeys while protecting direct customer relationships.
  • Experience building or rebuilding a marketing, ticketing, or commercial organization under commercial pressure.

About the Company

Cirque du Soleil

Produces bespoke live entertainment shows worldwide

Cirque du Soleil designs and produces tailored live entertainment experiences for an international audience. It creates bespoke performances for private events, tourist attractions, and large-scale productions, combining artistic performances, staging, and production design to fit each client’s objectives. The core offering includes producing and selling tickets for live shows and delivering customized entertainment solutions through event production services and partnerships with other brands. What makes Cirque du Soleil stand out is its ability to craft highly customized performances for diverse clients around the world, leveraging its extensive artistic and production expertise to deliver unique experiences at various venues and formats. The company aims to be a leading global provider of live entertainment by delivering memorable shows, expanding ticket revenue, and building partnerships with brands and organizations.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$1.1B
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
1984

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