Asset & Wealth Management, Wealth Investment Solutions (WIS): Investment Product Manager, Vice President

**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.

**WIS Overview**

The Wealth Investment Solutions (WIS) team within Goldman Sachs Asset Management manages over $375bn in assets across 80,000+ customized portfolios for individual as well as institutional investors across the wealth spectrum. WIS designs and manages personalized investment solutions for individual investment objectives, including tax-managed, factor-based and value aligned strategies across the Equity and Fixed Income asset classes.

**Role Overview**

As an **investment product manager** within the WIS business you will be responsible for building new investment strategies as well as refining existing strategies to solve for the evolving needs of individual investors across wealth segments. As a product manager your role will be to leverage your knowledge of wealth management, financial products, and exceptional product management skills to rapidly develop, launch and refine investment solutions delivered at scale. As a focal point for one of the division’s key priority initiatives, the team operates in an entrepreneurial environment but with the resources of a large organization.

WIS product managers collaborate across multiple teams and work closely with portfolio managers, client portfolio managers, engineers, UX designers, salespeople, digital product managers, operations, controllers, and compliance to deliver new investment strategies to the market.

Please thoroughly review all responsibilities and qualifications.

**Responsibilities:**

• Research on new wealth investment solution ideas in partnership with portfolio managers, client portfolio managers, researchers, engineers and WIS leadership
• Develop front-to-back specifications for a technical investment products, understand process maps, drive testing/validation, and partner with engineering to deliver scalable products
• Drive execution of front-to-back product development roadmap
• Create a testing plan and validate testing results to ensure smooth rollout of the product
• Maintain JIRA tickets, specifications, and documentation where relevant to the specific project.
• Develop key success metrics for new product releases and track metrics to evaluate success.
• Partner with stakeholders across the investing business, operations, engineering, and sales to ensure alignment across teams.
• Partner with senior leaders and stakeholders to use quantitative and qualitative data points to drive high quality decision making and make prioritization trade-offs

**Required Qualifications:**

• Technical background, preferably an undergraduate and/or graduate degree in mathematics, computer science, financial engineering, or other STEM-related background.
• 5-7 years of experience working as a technical product manager, engineer, portfolio manager or financial analyst in the investment industry
• Successful track record of developing and launching investment products
• Experience with investment management concepts (equities, fixed income, derivatives, performance calculations, risk, tax-loss harvesting, direct indexing, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills across verbal, written emails, and PowerPoints (e.g. visualizations, diagrams, etc.); Ability to succinctly discuss complex investment and/or technical concepts to various stakeholders across the organization.
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills to document specifications and communicate effectively across teams.
• Prudent judgement on risk management, impact to the client experience, and the ability to escalate as needed.
• Interest in working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to pivot and align with changing priorities.
• Willingness to get into nuanced details necessary to drive high-quality decision-making and ensure prudent risk management that can impact the investment experience.
• Great attitude and openness to learn, be a team player, and collaborate with others.

**We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits**

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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Opportunity Overview

CORPORATE TITLE

Vice President

OFFICE LOCATION(S)

Dallas

JOB FUNCTION

Investing & Portfolio Management - Public

DIVISION

Asset & Wealth Management