Pros
I came into the BatesMeron team as a senior copywriter and immediately found myself empowered to make creative decisions for clients and for the agency itself. This only grew over my four years with the company. Across clients and projects, I always felt like my voice was heard—as is every voice within the creative team, which positioned us to create some truly rewarding and successful work across the diverse portfolio of clients the agency maintains.
As a branding agency, BatesMeron offered me numerous opportunities to grow, not only as a writer, but more holistically, learning the ins and outs of everything from branding to design to web development and from pitching clients to putting out fires. The size of BatesMeron means employees wear many hats. I was even entrusted to help steer the agency as an associate creative director there for the last year of my time there.
For someone wanting to get hands-on with both agency life and how the business of an agency works, I can't recommend a career with BatesMeron highly enough. I wouldn't have been able to make the next step in my career without the guidance the agency's management gave me in finding my voice as a writer and as a leader.
Cons
For creatives, there's a big difference between in-house work and agency work. Even as a small agency, workflow at BatesMeron moves fast. This takes some getting used to and is not for everybody.
There are also big personalities at BatesMeron. I was one of them so I was able to hold my own, but it helps to be assertive to succeed .
