Company Description

Repeatedly voted one of Montreal's Top Employers and Employer of the Year for the 2022 Mercuriades Awards, Rodeo FX is a high-end creative company offering services in visual effects, advertising, animation, and experiential.

Nominated for multiple Emmy® Awards for its work on the series Stranger Things season 4, The Witcher season 2, and The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power season 1, the independent, Oscar®-winning company boasts close to 900 artists crafting from studios in Montreal, Québec City, Toronto, Los Angeles and Paris.

Rodeo FX is a creative partner to the world's best storytellers including Netflix, HBO, Disney, Marvel, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros., and Sony, and has collaborated on ads for YouTube, NBC, and Apple. Current projects include Blue Beetle, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon. Recently released projects include John Wick: Chapter 4, Black Adam, Disney's The Little Mermaid, and Love, Death and Robots Volume 3, for which the company won a 2023 VES award.

Job Description

The Talent Acquisition Specialist has a direct impact on our ability to deliver on our production commitments: identifying the right profiles, qualifying them with rigor, and moving decisions forward at the pace of our projects.

With several concurrent mandates spanning highly specialized creative and technical disciplines, this role demands both exemplary execution and sharp judgment. You work in close partnership with department heads and the TA team to build communities of qualified talent, contribute to clear and well-documented decisions, and lead negotiations through to signature; with tact, clarity, and a keen sense of what creates value.

Every interaction with a talent is an opportunity to leave a mark.



The mark of an exchange where we showed up at every step, regardless of the outcome. This standard is not a policy: it's a way of being at work, and it's what we expect from you.

Main responsibilities:

Full-cycle recruitment

- Lead end-to-end recruitment mandates: intake and needs assessment, job posting, screening, interview coordination, reference checks, offer preparation, negotiation, and signature.
- Run structured intake meetings: clarify the true hiring need, calibrate the expected level, confirm success criteria, validate production constraints, and define an efficient interview process.
- Assess candidates: evaluate level, document key signals (positive and risk indicators), and provide clear recommendations.
- Support Department Heads as needed in interview preparation: targeted questions, consistent evaluation grids, smooth logistics, and well-framed debriefs.
- Maintain active momentum on each search: proactive follow-ups, regular pipeline movement, and continuous progress through decision.

Sourcing and talent community development

- Deploy targeted, differentiated sourcing strategies based on the profile: direct outreach, specialized networks, referrals, academic partnerships, and VFX/animation communities aligned with immediate needs.
- Build and maintain discipline-based passive talent communities: rigorous segmentation,



planned follow-ups, relevant re-engagement, and up-to-date profiles.
- Write and publish job postings that accurately reflect the role and Rodeo FX culture in French and English as needed.
- Adapt messaging and approach to the context of each mandate: production urgency, talent scarcity, and seniority level.
- Provide actionable market insights to the team: talent availability, salary expectations, emerging trends, and anticipated risks.

Evaluation and selection quality

- Conduct structured screening interviews with a rigorous approach: relevant questions and validation of essential criteria.
- Produce complete, consistent, and immediately actionable interview assessments.
- Participate in final interviews when required and actively contribute to fast, well-framed, documented decisions made on time.
- Identify early gaps, grey areas, and risk signals, and escalated appropriately with context and options to act.
- Maintain high standards of judgment, confidentiality, and professionalism at all times.

Candidate experience and operational rigor

- Deliver a candidate experience worthy of Rodeo FX's reputation: transparent and timely communications, well-set expectations, and respectful follow-ups at every stage, including rejections.
- Maintain the ATS (SmartRecruiter) at a level that allows any team member to take over a file without loss of information: statuses, next steps, notes, documents, and decision traceability.
- Coordinate each step of the process with precision: invitations, confirmations, references, internal validations, and manager feedback.
- Prepare complete, well-structured offer approval requests: key informatio

📌 Talent Acquisition Specialist in Visual effects (Quebec City)
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📍 Quebec City