Social Media & Content Creator

Merrick Creative; Greenbelt, Northern (MD, KY); On-site; USD 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Merrick Creative in Greenbelt, MD, is seeking a social content creator to shoot photo/video, write captions, and manage daily feeds across platforms.

You’ll work with a full design team to execute ideas, stay on-brand and on-trend, and grow audience engagement. 1–3 years of hands-on social content experience and a keen eye for visuals are required. Hybrid schedule with a collaborative studio environment.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years making social content that people actually engaged with.
• Eye for photography and videography; know when to bring in the design team.
• Fluency across major platforms and the tools that feed them.
• Perfectionist streak; notices pixel-level or wording issues.
• Curiosity about marketing, culture, and where the internet is headed next.
• Writing that sounds like a person; persuasive in conversations.

Responsibilities

• Shoot and create. Photo, video, copy. You produce the raw material that makes a feed worth following.
• Write the words. Every platform, every format, on brand and on time.
• Lean on the team. Tap our designers when an idea calls for polish, motion, or something built from scratch.
• Run the feeds. Post, engage, reply, and grow the audience like the numbers are yours.
• Get in the room. Brainstorm with strategists, designers, and producers and bring ideas nobody else brought.
• Stay current. Spot trends early, test them fast, drop the ones that flop.
• Put AI to work. Human-first, always. But we use AI for good and build our own tools to move faster and spend more time on the ideas.

Skills

Photo & video

Copywriting

Social media platforms

Engagement strategy

Tools

Camera

Video editing software

Job description

Greenbelt, MD (Hybrid) · Full-Time or Contractor

The short version
We make brands and places impossible to scroll past. We need someone who can do it every day, on every feed, without running out of ideas by Tuesday.

Who we are
Merrick Creative is a creative and communications agency in Greenbelt, MD. We work with the depth of a consultancy, the fire of a studio, and the urgency of a newsroom. We build brand strategy, marketing, PR, podcasts, and AI tools we actually use. Real estate, food and beverage, national brands. If a brand or a place needs to matter to people, that is the work.

The role
You are a maker. You shoot the photo, capture the video, write the caption. You are comfortable being the one holding the camera and the one holding the pen. And when an idea needs more than one set of hands, you have a full design team within arm's reach to build it with you. You know the difference between a post that fills a calendar slot and a post that makes someone stop, laugh, and tap follow.

What you'll do

Shoot and create. Photo, video, copy. You produce the raw material that makes a feed worth following.

Write the words. Every platform, every format, on brand and on time.

Lean on the team. Tap our designers when an idea calls for polish, motion, or something built from scratch.

Run the feeds. Post, engage, reply, and grow the audience like the numbers are yours.

Get in the room. Brainstorm with strategists, designers, and producers and bring ideas nobody else brought.

Stay current. Spot trends early, test them fast, drop the ones that flop.

Put AI to work. Human-first, always. But we use AI for good and build our own tools to move faster and spend more time on the ideas. You'll help us do it well.

What you bring

1 to 3 years making social content that people actually engaged with.

A real eye and hand for shooting photo and video, plus the instinct to know when to bring in the design team.

Fluency across the major platforms and the tools that feed them.

A perfectionist streak. You notice when something's a pixel off or a word too long.

Real curiosity about marketing, culture, and where the internet is headed next.

Writing that sounds like a person. Talking that closes the room.

The ability to juggle five things and drop none of them.

The fine print, sincerely meant
Merrick Creative is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We hire the best