Job Description

Asset & Wealth Management

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world's leading asset managers with over $2 trillion in assets under supervision, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions, and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As a primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals.

Your Impact

As a Vice President within the Public Investing (PI) Management and Strategy team, you will serve as a critical architect of the platform’s future, focusing on high-priority transformation initiatives and enabling execution of top business priorities. Public Investing is the primary investing engine of Goldman Sachs, overseeing over $3 trillion in assets under supervision (AUS) across Fixed Income, Fundamental Equity, Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS), QES and Multi-Asset solutions.

In this leadership capacity, you will be responsible for driving the strategic evolution of the platform through a focus on the Operating Platform Uplift, including the data strategy and AI strategy. You will move beyond high-level analysis to own the delivery of high-stakes initiatives, navigating across multiple investment teams to tackle shared challenges. A key component of this role is the ability to understand the financial and commercial impact of business decisions, using those insights to inform the firm’s decision-making process and ensure the product roadmap is executed with precision and speed.

Principal Responsibilities:

This is a high-impact, high-visibility role requiring a seasoned leader who can operate at the intersection of investment strategy, technological innovation, and operational transformation.

Strategic Execution & Transformation

• Orchestrate Strategic Objectives: Lead the end-to-end orchestration of strategic objectives, execution, and performance monitoring to ensure the PI business mandate is met.
• Platform & AI Transformation: Drive large-scale business transformation initiatives related to Platform Uplift and Data Strategy. Act as a lead for AI Adoption and Advocacy, leveraging digital automation to modernize the PI platform and improve speed-to-market.
• Vision to Delivery: Translate high-level strategic vision into operational delivery and excellence, ensuring that complex business goals are converted into actionable, scalable workflows.

Governance & Operational Excellence

• Governance & Prioritization: Establish rigorous governance and prioritization frameworks for critical engineering and operational initiatives, ensuring resources are aligned with the most impactful business priorities.
• Cross-Divisional Collaboration: Drive cross-divisional collaboration with Sales, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance to optimize processes and find efficiencies that scale across the global organization.
• Engineering & Product Partnership: Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, and Ops teams to enhance transparency and scale business capabilities, resolving structural or operational bottlenecks that impede growth.

Business Development & Commercial Insight

• Product Innovation: Enable new product development and identify market opportunities, specifically focusing on the expansion of investment vehicles and platform capabilities.
• Commercial Decision Making: Analyze and communicate the financial and commercial impact of business decisions to senior leadership, providing data-driven insights that shape the strategic direction of the PI business.
• KPI & Performance Governance: Establish and oversee the metrics for success across strategic initiatives, providing firm leadership with transparent reporting on progress against financial and commercial goals.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience: 7-10+ years of experience in Asset Management, Transformation, Operations, or Corporate Strategy, with a proven track record of executing complex business initiatives and data-driven strategies.
• Commercial Acumen: Strong ability to understand and model the financial and commercial impacts of strategic business decisions.
• Execution Mindset: A "delivery-first" approach with the ability to manage multiple high-priority workstreams in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Leadership & Influence: Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to influence senior Partners and Managing Directors across different functional areas and investment teams.
• Problem Solving: Advanced ability to operate in ambiguity and navigate the "gray space" of a global organization to find creative solutions to institutional hurdles.

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $125000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available
to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here