Account Executive
Remote or Greenbelt, MD (Hybrid) · Full-Time or Contractor
The short version
Every account has a heartbeat. You're the one who keeps it steady. We need someone who can hold the client relationship, keep the work moving, and know the brief cold because they helped shape it.
Who we are
Merrick Creative is a creative and communications agency in Greenbelt, MD. We build brands, campaigns, and reputations for clients in food and beverage, real estate, nonprofits, and beyond. Strategy, creative, PR, and production under one roof. Our account team is where all of it connects.
The role
You're the day-to-day for our clients and the connective tissue for our teams. Briefs, timelines, budgets, reviews. You keep them all in motion and nothing falls through. Organized enough to run the process, sharp enough to know when the work is right. This role sits next to account leadership, which means you learn the whole business and grow into leading it.
What you'll do
Own daily client communication. Clear, accurate, fast.
Serve as the bridge between clients and our creative, strategy, and production teams.
Help build the briefs, timelines, budgets, and scopes that set the work up to win.
Keep work flowing across departments and track it to on-time, on-budget delivery.
Sit in creative reviews and make sure what ships matches the strategy and the client's goals.
Dig into competitive research, reporting, and insights that sharpen our recommendations.
Prep presentations, proposals, reports, and meeting recaps.
Bring proactive ideas that grow existing accounts, and pull the right teams in to make them real.
What you bring
Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Advertising, or a related field.
Excellent writing and speaking. You can make a complicated update land in three sentences.
Serious organization and multitasking. Detail-oriented by instinct.
The ability to run several projects at once without missing a deadline.
A working understanding of creative and production across digital, social, and traditional.
A solutions-first attitude and the energy to match a fast, team-driven room.
The fine print, sincerely meant
Merrick Creative is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We hire the best people, full stop, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Different backgrounds make sharper work. We want yours.
