Internal Communications Associate Manager

This role is a unique opportunity for an early-career, yet experienced communications professional to join a high-impact team shaping the future of employee communications at Guardian. Working at the intersection of communications, emerging technology, analytics, and operational excellence, this individual will help manage enterprise channels while contributing to strategic initiatives that improve how communications are delivered, measured, and experienced.

Ideal candidates are intellectually curious, highly organized, and energized by solving problems, improving processes, and turning impactful ideas into reality. The role requires strong writing skills, sound editorial judgment, a service-oriented mindset, and a strong interest in data as insight for continuous improvement. If you're motivated by the opportunity to leave things better than you found them, drive meaningful change, and help a high-performing team reach its next level of impact, you'll thrive in this role.

You Will

Maintain high editorial and quality standards across employee-facing channels, promoting communications that are clear, concise, accurate, relevant, and aligned to each channel’s purpose.
Create, curate, and manage high-quality content and templates for internal platforms, including our intranet, internal newsletter, email campaigns, digital signage, and enterprise social platform.
Utilize content management systems (CMS) for the day-to-day management and publishing across internal communication channels, ensuring that content is both easily accessible to employees and easily maintained by communications team members.
Support recurring content review and auditing workflows to help ensure employee-facing information remains current, accurate, useful, and well managed.
Coordinate with Internal Communications, Marketing, IT, and vendor teams to maintain channel operations and communications enablement tools as needed.
Uphold governance and brand guidelines across internal communication channels to positively reflect company identity and culture while enabling positive employee experiences.
Monitor and assess the performance of internal communication efforts, using insights to help refine approaches and identify best practices.
Provide executional and administrative support for internal communications and channel operations, including documentation and refinement of protocols, templates, standard communications materials, and other resources for enablement.
Advise business partners, communicators, and channel users on optimal use of enterprise communications channels for their audiences and goals.
Serve as a collaborative thought partner on channel and communications operations initiatives, bringing sound judgment, practical recommendations, and a service mindset.
Assist as needed with cross-training and support to employees on the use of internal communication tools and platforms.
Leverage subject matter expertise to serve as a trusted knowledge manager for our internal network of communicators, facilitating knowledge sharing, documentation, and continuous learning.
Contribute data, insights, and proven best practices to efforts to enhance the effectiveness and engagement for internal communications.
Support technology adoption and AI transformation by learning new tools and methodologies, translating best practices into practical resources and recommending ways to improve how the team works. Further champion AI transformation by ideating, exploring, testing, and implementing AI agents and tools to enable communications.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement by soliciting and incorporating feedback from colleagues and stakeholders to improve processes, reduce bottlenecks, and enhance effectiveness.
Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices in internal communications, channel operations, and web content management.

You Have

- Bachelor's degree in communications, Marketing, or Journalism
- 3-6 years of experience in internal communications
- Exceptional writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with an eye for detail and accuracy.
- Experience managing internal channels, such as intranets, digital signage, and email newsletters and/or campaigns.
- proficiency with key tools preferred ― SharePoint, Viva Engage, Power platform, and/or internal communications measurement platforms such as SWOOP Analytics and tyGraph.
- Consulting experience in a management consulting firm environment preferred.

Working conditions

Hybrid work arrangement, requiring 3 days in the office each week.
This role can be based in our New York, NY, or Boston, MA, office.
- Options for assignment to another tristate hub office — Holmdel, NJ, or Stamford, CT —may be considered for highly qualified candidates.

Salary Range:

$82,770.00 - $135,975.00

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.

Our Promise

At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.

Inspire Well-Being

As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Accommodations

Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MyHR@glic.com. Please note: this resource is for accommodation requests only. For all other inquires related to your application and careers at Guardian, refer to the Guardian Careers site.

Visa Sponsorship

Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment-based visas (e.g., such as an H-1B). In order to be a successful applicant, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.

Notice Regarding Guardian’s Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment

As part of Guardian’s job application process, Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools (“AI Tools") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening. This preliminary screening may be used to help identify applicant materials and resumes relative to their indication that the applicant meets the requirements for the specific job for which they are applying, as specified in the listing posted on Guardian’s jobs website (Careers at Guardian at https://www.guardianlife.com/careers). At Guardian, we do not use AI Tools to substantially assist or replace human judgment or discretionary decision making in our hiring process. All hiring decisions will be made by Guardian colleagues.

Please be aware that if you apply for a specific position with Guardian, you will have the choice of opting out of Guardian’s use of AI Tools during the job application process. If you would like to request an alternative process that does not utilize AI Tools or would like to request a reasonable accommodation, within ten business days of your position application, you must email your request to MyHR@glic.com, making sure to provide your name and job requisition identification number. Guardian will retain your applicant materials and resume and all information therefrom in accordance with Guardian’s document retention policy, a copy of which you may request via MyHR@glic.com.

Additionally, at applicable times, Guardian will make public the most recent bias audit results for such AI tools, which may be found here.

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