The Executive Office plays an integral role in setting and advancing Goldman Sachs’ corporate strategy, and in preserving the firm’s distinctive culture. We are responsible for safeguarding the firm’s relationship with alumni, clients, shareholders, policy makers, and the broader public, while ensuring that our own people remain informed about the firm’s evolving priorities. We also partner with the businesses to source high-impact opportunities in line with the firm’s social and sustainability agendas.

About Goldman Sachs Marketing

Led by the firm’s first Chief Marketing Officer, the marketing function at Goldman Sachs is backed by momentum and a broad imperative to unify the discipline, driving a business-critical function focused on the firm’s future growth. As such, Global Marketing is focused on building out a data-and-technology enabled team of growth marketers, delivering value for the brand and the business. The organization consists of Corporate Reputation Marketing and business marketing teams, as well as center of excellence (COE) teams like paid media, research, and design. Together, these functions collaborate to build a unified, scalable, and consistent approach to marketing the brand and its offerings. Our mission is to drive commercial impact for the firm and the businesses we serve.

About the Role

Global Marketing Design is at the forefront of defining and delivering intuitive, impactful, and cohesive experiences across the firm. Exceptional design is critical in enabling our clients to navigate complex financial landscapes with ease and confidence. The Associate, Design and Product Operations will play a crucial role in operationalizing the Goldman Sachs design vision, ensuring that our design systems and visual standards are consistently applied and continue to evolve to meet the highest standards of quality and innovation.

Core Responsibilities

• Partner with designers, engineers, and project managers to create efficiency and drive strategic alignment across the design system and visual design initiatives
• Leverage data-driven insights to inform strategic decisions, optimize design processes, and measure the impact of design efforts
• Manage the governance process across the brand and the enterprise design system, ensuring adherence to firmwide standards and promoting consistency
• Help shape the future of the enterprise design system by federating its implementation across the firm, fostering adoption and best practices
• Partner with key stakeholders and design leadership to define and execute strategies for operationalizing design at an enterprise scale
• Determine and implement an effective measurement strategy to define the impact of the design system, team health, and overall operational efficiency

Qualifications

• 3 plus years of proven experience in managing design operations within a large-scale enterprise organization
• Demonstrated success in managing enterprise-level design systems and overseeing their successful implementation
• Understanding of product management, design, and engineering practices, with the ability to bridge these disciplines effectively
• Exceptional communication skills, with a track record of influencing stakeholders and driving cross-functional alignment
• Strong analytical capabilities, with experience in developing and utilizing data to inform strategy and measure performance
• Exceptional creative judgment; in pursuit of creative excellence and exceptional execution regardless of the task at hand