About the position
Goldman Sachs Asset Management Division: As 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.
Responsibilities
- Shape and implement products and platforms that will help scale growth of GSAM's business.
- Lead the strategy and execution of building out and scaling Portfolio Servicing tooling and functionality.
- Partner closely with key stakeholders across Service, Operations, Engineering, Sales and Investing teams.
- Establish ongoing relationships by facilitating discussions to understand core business challenges.
- Design and document requirements to define and deliver industry leading servicing experiences.
- Prioritize the development backlog and clarify and revise requirements.
- Define the strategic direction of feature development by building consensus among stakeholders.
- Spend time with users and platform stakeholders to validate product opportunities.
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative metrics including user feedback to inform product strategy.
- Compile user stories and acceptance criteria in collaboration with subject matter experts.
- Develop collaborative working relationships with business, engineering and design teams.
- Identify and escalate risks and dependencies across the program.
- Lead training and rollout of new features and drive adoption.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of Product Management experience within financial services technologies.
- Understanding of Alternative investments, retail and institutional SMAs and their client journeys.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience working directly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- 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.
Nice-to-haves
- Must have a product mindset and experience collaborating with key stakeholders to propose products and their associated features.
- Strong creative leader, self-motivated with 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 and communicate a 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.
