42 IC jobs + After the rollout

New roles at Adobe, BT, Starbucks, Delta, Neko Health, and McKesson, plus one remote and six change or transformation comms roles.

June 25, 2026

Your briefing has 42 new IC roles at Adobe, BT, Starbucks, Delta, Neko Health, McKesson, and GlobalFoundries, plus one remote role and six change or transformation comms roles.

Several descriptions this week point to the same post-launch problem: after the rollout, who helps employees use the new thing well? More below the listings.

🇺🇸 USA

Abbott
Manager, HR Communications
Abbott Park, IL

AbbVie
Senior Specialist, Site Communications
Waco, TX

Adobe
Sr. Employee Communications Specialist
San Jose, CA; Lehi, UT; San Francisco, CA

Apex Systems
REL Communications Specialist
Pensacola, FL

Axiom Space
Internal Communication Specialist
Houston, TX

Balfour Beatty
Employee Communications Specialist
Dallas, TX

Capital Consultants Management
Internal Communications Manager
Plano, TX

Cytokinetics
Manager, Internal Communications
South San Francisco, CA

Delta
Senior Manager, Employee Communications – Flight Operations
Atlanta, GA

Erickson Senior Living
Internal Marketing and Communications Associate
Baltimore, MD

GlobalFoundries
Director Internal & Executive Communications
Austin, TX

Hilton
Communication Manager, Planning & Performance
McLean, VA; Dallas, TX

JPMorgan Chase
Corporate Communications - Senior Associate
Columbus, OH; Chicago, IL

Lendmark Financial Services
Senior Manager, Internal Communications
Lawrenceville, GA

Linde
Associate Director - Internal Communications
Danbury, CT

McKesson
Manager, Internal and Executive Communications
Irving, TX

MetLife
Director Internal Communications, US Business
Location Not Specified

Neko Health
Global Operations Communications Lead
New York, NY; London

Nestlé
Corporate Affairs Internal Communications Intern
Arlington, VA

Southern Company Gas
Sr. Specialist, Internal Communications
Atlanta, GA

Starbucks
Senior Manager, Retail Partner Communications – Partner Experience
Seattle, WA

UC San Diego
Digital Communications & Experience Specialist
San Diego, CA

Zayo
Internal Communication Lead
Remote

🇨🇦 CANADA

Aviva
Internal Communications Manager
Markham

Finning
Communications Advisor
Multiple locations

🇬🇧 UK

↪️ TRANSFORMATION / CHANGE COMMS

Apex Systems
AI Change Management & Communications Lead
Multiple locations (US)

BT
Senior Internal Communications Manager - AI Transformation
London; Bristol; Birmingham (UK)

Carnival
Lead, MAST Change & Communication
Miami, FL (US)

Colt
Senior Internal & Change Communications Manager
London (UK)

Edward Jones
Senior Change & Communication Strategist
Tempe, AZ; Saint Louis, MO (US)

Johnson Matthey
Change Communications Advisory Partner
London; Royston (UK)

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After the rollout

Sometimes the giveaway is buried in the responsibilities section.

Apex Systems is hiring an AI Change Management & Communications Lead. The role owns communications, documentation, knowledge management, and user adoption. The listing calls it a digital workplace communications and adoption role.

That little sentence does a lot of work.

BT puts a similar brief inside Corporate Affairs, with an AI Transformation role tied to adoption and measurable value. Carnival's MAST role is about readiness, stakeholder engagement, and new ways of working. Neko Health is sharper still: its clinical information is fragmented and ungoverned, and the listing calls that operational noise, and a quality and safety risk.

After launch, the interesting work starts when the tool meets the team: the manager gets the question, the source of truth is out of date, and the feedback does not fit neatly into the comms plan.

That is where these roles feel different. They put IC close to the messy middle, where instructions, habits, manager questions, feedback, and proof of change all start to touch.

Practitioners are circling the same question. Jessica Gaulin has been asking IC pros what is changing in how they reach employees, where AI tools help, where they create problems, and where adoption gaps remain. Pete Sena described a familiar failure mode: companies buy seats, send the announcement, run the session, and hope habits change. And Greg Boone put it neatly: "access without orientation is not adoption."

Academic research gives language for why launch messaging is never enough. A 2021 review in Frontiers in Psychology found that digital transformation depends on individual adoption, skills, team communication, leadership, HR, and culture. A 2024 Public Relations Review paper makes the same point for AI in internal communication: adoption needs education, co-piloting, transparent communication, governance, and room to experiment.

Put plainly: adoption is a system of orientation.

So what if we asked smaller before the launch deck is finished?

  1. What work changes on Monday morning?

  2. What help does someone need the first time it gets awkward?

  3. What will show us, six weeks later, that people have made it theirs?

The answers become the plan: the manager note, the source of truth, the first-week support, the feedback loop, and the measure.

What are you seeing inside your organization? Reply to share your perspective. We'll feature a few practitioner notes in a future edition.

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