Account Executive, Creator (Finance)

Assembly is an integrated agency providing purpose-built communications to Microsoft - bringing strategy, creative, research, social and digital, and influencer marketing together to drive tangible business results and advance Microsoft's mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

We're looking for a culture-savvy, gaming-passionate Account Executive to join our Xbox Creator Marketing team. This role supports earned-first creator marketing programs across game and hardware launches, platform moments, and partner collaborations. You'll work within a tight-knit team that lives and breathes gaming culture-and partners closely with some of the most well-known gaming creators and media outlets in the world.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone with agency experience, a passion for gaming, and a proven ability to execute fast-paced, high-impact campaigns in partnership with hands-on clients and cross-functional internal teams.

You'll be joining a close, collaborative team with deep expertise in gaming and digital culture. We're fast, flexible, and creative-and we're also family-like in our support of each other. Whether in the office or the Xbox group chat, we share wins, stay close to the work, and geek out over what's next in the creator world.

Responsibilities:

• Support creator campaigns from end-to-end: sourcing, vetting, negotiating, and managing creator partnerships
• Lead execution of offline/online creator activations tied to Xbox game and hardware launches
• Stay immersed in the creator and gaming landscape-helping our team and clients stay on trend
• Track deliverables, timelines, payments, and reporting for mid-sized programs
• Collaborate closely with internal specialists across social, paid, creative, and earned
• Contribute to wrap reports, insights decks, and client presentations
• Support client communication and relationship management with professionalism and reliability
• Actively source opportunities for creator programming with existing clients and provide strategic recommendations on how influencers can amplify current and future initiatives
• Understands and participates in agency billing and invoicing procedures; records and submits time, expenses and POs to the right project codes on a timely basis
• Demonstrate a collaborative, hard-working, team spirit focused on serving the practice and the needs of the client
• Contribute to program recaps and reporting

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of one to two years of relevant experience working directly with creators, in creator marketing, talent management and/or at a comparable agency
• Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, or related field

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of earned creator engagement
• Working knowledge of top creator platforms (YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, etc.)
• Experience tracking and managing campaign assets, timelines, and deliverables
• Familiarity with gaming media and creators
• Strong writing skills, as well as the ability to interact with internal teams professionally and maintain relationships with creators, agents and managers
• Passionate about the role creators can play in an integrated marketing plan
• Ability to engage and execute multiple small and mid-sized influencer projects
• Experience working with multiple tiers of creators and supporting programs across multiple digital channels
• Able to perform well under pressure by efficiently prioritizing tasks and completing multiple items under deadline
• Proficient at keeping a pulse on culture and what is relevant and sharing that information with internal teams
• Thrives in a fast-paced work environment with the ability to work effectively across a specific set of accounts.

$55,000 - $68,000 a year

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An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, travel requirements, revenue-based metrics, any contractual agreements, and business or organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of DJEH's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, a Paid Time Off policy, and region-specific benefits.

Edelman offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance, vision, 401K, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, travel assistance and wellness programing.

Assembly is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage racially and ethnically diverse people, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and members of any and all protected classes to apply.