Asset & Wealth Management - Client Service Platforms - Head of Product - Dallas - Vice Presiden[...]

Company: Goldman Sachs Bank AG
Location: Dallas
Posted on: February 9, 2025

Job Description:

Asset & Wealth Management - Client Service Platforms - Head of Product - Dallas - Vice President location_on Dallas, Texas, United StatesOpportunity OverviewCORPORATE TITLE: Vice PresidentOFFICE LOCATION(S): DallasJOB FUNCTION: Software EngineeringDIVISION: Asset & Wealth ManagementAs one of the world's leading asset managers, our mission is to help our clients achieve their investment goals. To best serve our clients' diverse and evolving needs, we have built our business to be global, broad and deep across asset classes, geographies and solutions.Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) is one of the world's leading asset management institutions. GSAM delivers innovative investment solutions on a global, multi-product platform. In addition to traditional products (e.g. Equities, Fixed Income), our product offering also includes Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Fund of Funds, Quantitative Strategies, Fundamental Equity and a Multi-Asset Pension Solutions Business. Software is engineered in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, adapting to market and customer needs to deliver robust solutions in an ever-changing business environment.Your ImpactAs the Head of Product for Client Service Platforms, you will shape the experiences for our clients and integral components of the Asset Management technology ecosystem. You will lead the product management team focused on defining the features and strategy of our core client service platforms including the digital experience for internal users, orchestration technology to enable business growth, and the client service management platform. Partnering closely with key stakeholders across Service, Engineering, and Business, you will establish ongoing relationships by facilitating discussions to understand their core business challenges and to design and document requirements to provide excellent client service and scale our abilities to meet the growth of the business. As part of a cross-functional agile development team, you will prioritize the development backlog and clarify and revise requirements. You will also be tightly integrated into the broader department initiatives, including expanding our internal digital presence and ensuring our products can scale with growing demand.How You Will Fulfill Your Potential as a Product Manager

• Define the strategic direction of feature development by building consensus among stakeholders, and partnering with engineers and designers to deliver high-quality experiences for the client service organization.
• Spend time with users and platform stakeholders to validate product opportunities and to develop an understanding of our users and business OKRs.
• Influence and lead the global client servicing product team; offering ongoing feedback, career mentorship, and build the right talent balance by assessing skill sets and providing ongoing mentoring to the team.
• Prioritize the product backlog informed by stakeholder feedback, domain expertise, user insights, and market research to make informed trade-offs between new feature development, platform investment, and optimizations (build vs buy vs borrow).
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative metrics including user feedback to inform product strategy.
• Compile user stories and acceptance criteria in collaboration with subject matter experts, engineers, and designers.
• Develop collaborative working relationships with business, engineering, and design teams to establish a safe team environment focused on collaborative problem solving and transparency.
• Identify and escalate risks and dependencies across the program.
• Lead training and rollout of new features and work closely with the users in a "white glove" approach to drive adoption and obtain feedback.
• Keep abreast of industry trends to identify and respond to new opportunities.Basic Qualifications
  • 12+ years of Product Management experience within financial services, specifically shaping client experiences and servicing platforms.
  • Understanding of asset management including retail and institutional SMAs, Alternatives, and pooled vehicles.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience working directly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience with ServiceNow is helpful.
  • Experience with all stages of the development lifecycle: inception, analysis, design, review, testing, and deployment leveraging agile development methodologies.
  • Proficiency in collaborating with technical teams, understanding software architecture, and translating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience engaging with stakeholders to design the customer experience, develop and communicate the product roadmap, and define and prioritize requirements.
  • Demonstrated success in leading and mentoring cross-functional teams, managing complex projects, and delivering software solutions on schedule and within budget.
  • Be a strategic thinker, able to lead project working groups, possessing strong facilitation and data gathering skills, and able to provide creative & innovative solutions.Experiences that will help you thrive:
    • Must have a client-centric and product mindset with experience collaborating with key stakeholders to propose products and their associated features.
    • Strong creative leader, self-motivated with an analytical mindset who can multi-task to solve interesting and difficult technical problems under time pressure and with resource constraints.
    • A demonstrated ability to rationalize ambiguous, open-ended problems and establish, communicate, and plan for progression.
    • Ensure systems can scale to handle increasing business volumes, optimize performance and throughput. Good understanding of distributed systems.
    • Be an advocate of best practices for system design and conformance to high standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHSAt Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital, and ideas to help our clients, shareholders, and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.htmlThe Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2024. All rights reserved.Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.
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