Insights from ChatGPT on These Roles
This 17 June 2026 batch is dominated by transformation architecture roles. Unlike many recent compilations that leaned heavily toward employee listening or traditional change management, this group contained a large number of positions focused on redesigning organizations, workforce systems, operating models, and enterprise capabilities.
Mattel, AbbVie, Amazon, Amgen, GE Vernova, Dana-Farber, and Berkeley all focus on shaping how organizations work rather than simply helping employees adapt to pre-existing changes.
On the adoption side, Elevance, Kyndryl, and Pearson stood out because they explicitly own readiness, stakeholder engagement, behavioral change, and transformation adoption outcomes.
Together, these roles reinforce a growing market trend: organizations are increasingly investing in leaders who can both design the dominos and ensure they fall in the intended direction.
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Strongest to Weakest Alignment with
Infectious Change Design
🔥 Ready for Infectious Change
Insight
- NetApp — Employee Listening & Insights Lead | San Jose, CA or Raleigh, NC. Lead employee listening programs across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, pulse, exit, and moments-that-matter surveys. Responsibilities include survey design, analytics, executive storytelling, AI-supported insight delivery, and manager enablement. Why It Stands Out: The role goes beyond survey administration and explicitly connects employee listening to leader action planning and workforce analytics. Apply: https://careers.netapp.com/job/-/-/27600/95903842736
Transformation - Mattel — Manager, Workforce Intelligence & Org Transformation Enablement | El Segundo, CA. Lead workforce planning, organizational design enablement, transformation analytics, readiness assessment, and organizational capability building. Why It Stands Out: Combines workforce intelligence, organizational design, transformation enablement, adoption monitoring, and analytics in a single role. Apply: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/MattelInc/744000129048240-manager-workforce-intelligence-org-transformation-enablement-
- AbbVie — Associate Director, Organizational Excellence | North Chicago, IL. Consult on and deliver solutions related to organizational design, strategy, team effectiveness, culture, readiness for change, and process optimization. Why It Stands Out: One of the closest matches to Infectious Change Design we’ve seen, combining organization design, team effectiveness, culture, strategy, and change readiness in a single role. Apply: https://careers.abbvie.com/en/job/associate-director-organizational-excellence-in-north-chicago-il-jid-27903
- Amazon — Workforce Strategist, Senior Talent Transformation | Multiple locations. Help senior leaders rethink workforce strategy, align talent investments to business priorities, and operationalize new ways of working through AI-enabled workforce planning. Why It Stands Out: Explicitly focuses on influencing leaders to adopt new workforce models and AI-enabled ways of working rather than merely conducting workforce planning. Apply: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10412022/workforce-strategist-senior-talent-transformation
- Amgen — HR Transformation: Internal Consulting, Sr. Manager | Remote. Lead HR transformation initiatives, future-state operating model development, AI enablement, modernization efforts, and enterprise transformation programs. Why It Stands Out: Focuses on redesigning how HR operates while integrating transformation strategy, technology, and organizational change. Apply: https://careers.amgen.com/en/job/-/-/87/96272656400
- GE Vernova — People Experience Executive | Remote. Lead enterprise employee experience transformation, global process standardization, AI-enabled people services, and operating model evolution. Why It Stands Out: Responsible for redesigning the employee experience ecosystem across a global enterprise rather than administering HR programs. Apply: https://careers.gevernova.com/de/people-experience-executive/job/R5044986
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — Senior Manager, Consulting | Brookline, MA. Support large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives, strategic planning, organizational assessment, and executive decision-making. Why It Stands Out: Internal consulting role focused on helping leaders solve major organizational challenges and shape future-state strategies. Apply: https://careers.dana-farber.org/job/571/senior-manager-consulting-operations-us-ma-brookline-10-brookline-place/
- The Berkeley Partnership — Management Consultant | New York, NY. Work directly with senior client leadership teams to shape and deliver complex transformational change across large enterprises. Why It Stands Out: Emphasizes end-to-end transformation from strategy through implementation and sustainable business change. Apply: https://www.berkeleypartnership.com/careers/apply
- Solace — Director, Strategy & Operations | Remote. Build the company’s first Strategy & Operations function while diagnosing organizational challenges, redesigning operations, and driving durable organizational change. Why It Stands Out: Explicitly rejects recommendation-only consulting in favor of staying accountable until new ways of working become sustainable. Apply: https://swooped.co/job-postings/867e259c-3513-4359-ac91-b4a0e7c9083e
Adoption - Elevance Health — Enterprise Change Management Leader | Indianapolis, IN. Lead enterprise change strategy, adoption planning, stakeholder engagement, readiness assessments, and behavioral change initiatives. Why It Stands Out: Directly responsible for embedding adoption into enterprise transformation efforts and achieving business outcomes through behavior change. Apply: https://elevancehealth.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/ANT/job/IN-INDIANAPOLIS-220-VIRGINIA-AVE/Enterprise-Change-Mangement-Leader_JR188051-1
- Kyndryl — Associate Director, Organizational Change Management Consultant | Remote. Lead organizational change management efforts for large-scale client transformations, including readiness assessments, stakeholder engagement, resistance management, and adoption strategy. Why It Stands Out: Strong consulting-focused OCM role emphasizing adoption, readiness, and sustainable transformation outcomes. Apply: https://kyndryl.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/KyndrylProfessionalCareers/job/No-City-KUS51413-Florida-Default-WKL/Associate-Director–Organizational-Change-Management-Consultant_R-60443
- Pearson — Specialist, Change Management | Remote. Lead stakeholder engagement, adoption planning, accountability systems, OKR implementation, and business transformation workstreams. Why It Stands Out: Focuses on driving adoption, alignment, and accountability rather than simply supporting communications or training. Apply: https://pearson.jobs/boston-ma/specialist-change-management/65D0A2217B334EBDBEDF28322B40A00F/job/
🟡 Not Yet Ready - Vertex Pharmaceuticals — Performance Excellence & Business Transformation Director | Boston, MA / Remote Eligible. Lead transformation portfolio management, executive reporting, governance, value realization, and transformation measurement activities. Why It Doesn’t Quite Make It: Strong PMO and governance role, but primarily focused on tracking, reporting, and measuring transformation rather than designing or spreading change. Apply: https://vrtx.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/Vertex_Careers/job/Boston-MA/Performance-Excellence—Business-Transformation-Director_REQ-29388
- Deeter Analytics — Head of Special Projects | Remote. Lead founder-directed strategic initiatives across a wide variety of business, operational, and growth topics. Why It Doesn’t Quite Make It: High-impact operator role, but not specifically focused on organizational transformation, workforce strategy, or behavior adoption. Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/deeter-analytics/edd64e93-2a92-4ffd-b6f7-d2ba7d4fd7ad
- BluePearl Pet Hospital — Culture Program Manager | Multiple locations. Lead employee engagement, recognition, survey administration, and culture-related initiatives across the organization. Why It Doesn’t Quite Make It: Strong culture and engagement role, but focused on program administration rather than enterprise transformation or organizational design. Apply: https://careers.bluepearlvet.com/us/en/job/BVOBLUUSR234039EXTERNALENUS/Culture-Program-Manager
More on the Rating Logic
🔥 Ready for Infectious Change
A role must clearly combine:
1. Employee Listening
- Owns or shapes how feedback is gathered (surveys, pulse, lifecycle, qualitative)
- Interprets data into insight (not just reporting)
2. Organizational Change
- Owns or drives execution of change
- Influences how leaders and teams actually operate differently
3. Signals of Real Behavior Change Design
(doesn’t need all, but should show several)
- Cross-functional influence without authority
- Focus on adoption, not just communication
- Iteration, measurement, and adjustment over time
- Leader behavior, team norms, or system changes
- Evidence of how change spreads, not just how it’s announced
👉 If all three are present → Ready
🟡 Not Yet Ready for Infectious Change
These roles have part of the equation, but not the full system:
- Strong listening but weak on execution
- Strong change management but disconnected from feedback
- Heavy on programs (L&D, engagement, HRBP) without ownership of behavior change
- Influence is indirect or optional, not required
👉 These are often good roles—but incomplete systems
⚠️ Proceed with Caution
Risk of being a cog, not a driver
Vague scope or staffing-driven roles
Transactional work (assessments, reporting, admin)
Little visibility into real influence or outcomes
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