Associate, Employee Communications

About the role

We are seeking a driven and creative candidate to join our Employee Communications team. This role plays a crucial role in supporting internal communications across Tapestry and our brands, creating strategic, informative, and inspiring content that drives employee engagement and brings our culture to life.

Responsibilities

• Support the daily operations and creation of editorial content and messaging (e.g., video, emails, newsletters, digital signage) that informs, engages, and inspires employees.
• Bring Tapestry’s brands and culture to life through compelling stories for employees globally across corporate, stores, and fulfillment centers.
• Manage and maintain metrics, dashboards, and reporting to measure the effectiveness of communications and inform future strategy. Additionally, leverage data and insights to evaluate channel performance and continuously improve engagement.
• Partner with functional teams on initiatives, change management communications, and campaigns. Additionally, support the planning and logistics for employee-facing events such as town halls, leadership meetings, and all-company moments.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in communications, journalism, or related field.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, English, Journalism, Marketing, or a related field.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tell compelling stories and surface key headlines.
• AI-literate and tech-curious: comfortable experimenting with AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot) to accelerate research, drafting, and design, and eager to explore how emerging technologies can elevate the craft of communications.
• Experience with intranet platforms, collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams, and Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign); video editing skills a plus.
• Demonstrated attention to detail, project management instincts, and ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to collaborate confidently across functions and levels.
• Sound judgment and discretion when working with sensitive or confidential information.
• A proactive, multi-tasking self-starter with a passion for our brands.

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulate credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401 (K)
• Paid Paternity and Maternity leave
• Commuter Benefits
• Disability insurance
• Tuition assistance

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