The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Global Banking & Markets, RIA Custody, Managed Accounts & Alternative Assets Platform, Vice President - New York

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc • $100K — $235K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in RIA custody or wealth technology with expertise in SMAs, UMAs, and alternative asset custody.
  • Proven experience leading cross-functional teams in a financial services environment.
  • Strong understanding of custody and managed account economics for business growth.
  • Exceptional communication skills to influence C-suite executives and stakeholders.
  • Balance strategic planning with operational execution and risk management.
  • Bachelor's degree required; advanced credentials like MBA or CFA preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and execute long-term strategic vision for RIA custody and alternative assets.
  • Implement strategies to enhance platform adoption and revenue generation.
  • Lead market analyses to develop business cases for platform expansion.
  • Own the onboarding process for strategic partners and alternative asset managers.
  • Serve as the primary voice for product discussions with clients and prospects.
  • Manage the product roadmap focusing on alternative asset solutions and capabilities.
  • Coordinate with teams to ensure compliance with operational standards.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • Investment in professional development and educational offerings.
  • Employee assistance programs for personal and professional support.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Role Overview

Goldman Sachs Custody Solutions is seeking a seasoned Vice President (VP) to lead the strategic vision, commercialization, and end-to-end execution of our Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) Custody Product, Managed Accounts Platform (including Separately Managed Accounts/SMAs and Unified Managed Accounts/UMAs), and Alternative Assets Custody offering.

Sitting at the center of the wealth management ecosystem, this senior leader will have comprehensive ownership of the platform's growth, commercial strategy, and operating infrastructure. The SVP will drive the product roadmap, lead high-value relationships with third-party SMA managers, Turnkey Asset Management Programs (TAMPs), Third Party Alternative investment platforms and elite RIA firms. Crucially, this role will oversee the onboarding, custody, and operational lifecycle of alternative assets (including private equity, private credit, hedge funds, and real estate), ensuring a seamless, institutional-grade experience for our clients.

This role requires a seasoned leader with a proven track record of scaling wealth-tech platforms, managing complex product portfolios, and driving commercial monetization and custody strategies in the RIA custody, managed accounts, and alternative investments space.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership & Platform Vision
  • Define Platform Strategy: Establish and execute the long-term strategic vision for the RIA custody platform, the integrated Managed Accounts (SMA/UMA) ecosystem, and the Alternative Assets custody framework to maintain market competitiveness and drive asset growth.
  • Commercialization & Monetization: Design and implement strategies to increase platform adoption, deepen RIA relationships, and generate incremental revenue through new products, pricing models, lending against alternative assets, and strategic partnerships.
  • Business Case Development: Lead financial analyses, market sizing, and competitive benchmarking to evaluate strategic investments and build robust business cases for platform expansion.

2. Key Relationship Management & Client Transitions
  • Executive Relationship Ownership: Serve as the senior relationship owner for a portfolio of strategic SMA managers, TAMP partners and alternative asset managers.
  • High-Touch Onboarding & Transitions: Oversee the end-to-end onboarding of new managers, complex RIA transitions, and alternative asset fund structures, ensuring seamless operational readiness, model delivery setup, and go-live execution.
  • Senior Product Specialist: Act as the primary executive product voice in front of key clients, prospects, and industry forums-leading platform overviews, alternative asset capabilities, manager deep-dives, and high-level sales presentations.

3. Product Development & Roadmap Ownership
  • Roadmap Governance: Own the comprehensive product roadmap for RIA Custody, Managed Accounts, and Alternative Assets, prioritizing capabilities such as model delivery, custom fee structures, tax management, and third-party alternative platform integrations.
  • Alternative Asset Product Innovation: Drive the development of digital-first alternative asset custody capabilities, including automated subscription document processing, AML/KYC workflows, capital call/distribution tracking, and consolidated reporting.
  • Requirements & Execution: Translate complex advisor feedback and market trends into scalable platform capabilities, partnering closely with Engineering and Technology to ensure precise execution.
  • Agile Project Management: Oversee cross-functional project plans, manage dependencies, and direct the prioritization of product enhancements and technology development.

4. Operational Excellence & Cross-Functional Governance
  • Cross-Functional Coordination: Align and coordinate operations, trading, and client service teams to ensure accounts, managed platforms, and alternative asset custody processes run to institutional standards.
  • Alternative Asset Operational Excellence: Establish robust, scalable operational and due diligence workflows for alternative asset custody, including streamlined asset onboarding, valuation updates, and position reconciliation.
  • Escalation & Issue Resolution: Serve as the ultimate escalation point for platform and alternative asset operational issues, driving root-cause analysis and implementing scalable process improvements.
  • Risk, Compliance, & Governance: Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to manage contracting, ongoing oversight obligations, and platform policies, ensuring full alignment with regulatory frameworks and qualified custodian rules.
  • KPI & Performance Tracking: Establish and monitor key performance indicators (AUM, net flows, model delivery timeliness, alternative asset onboarding cycle times, error rates) to measure platform health and drive partner remediation when necessary.

Required Qualifications
  • Industry Experience: 10+ years of experience in RIA custody, asset management, or wealth technology, with direct expertise in SMAs, UMAs, model delivery, or alternative asset custody infrastructure (private equity, private credit, hedge funds, real estate).
  • Leadership Track Record: Proven experience leading cross-functional teams and managing complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives in a highly matrixed financial services environment.
  • Commercial Acumen: Strong understanding of the economics of custody, managed accounts, and alternative investments, with a demonstrated ability to drive platform monetization and business growth.
  • Executive Presence: Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the credibility to influence C-suite executives, sophisticated advisors, and external partners.
  • Strategic & Analytical Mindset: Ability to balance high-level strategic planning with a hands-on approach to operational execution, risk management, and platform governance.
  • Education: Bachelor's degree required; MBA, CFA, or equivalent advanced credentials preferred.


Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $100000-$235000. 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.

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The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

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Learn more about The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Size
45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
NASDAQ
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