The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Human Capital Management, Talent Management, Associate, New York City

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc • $85K — $140K *
New York, NY 10025In-Person
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Qualifications

  • 5+ years of talent development or program management experience
  • Strong project management skills in fast-paced environments
  • Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
  • Experience with leadership and human capital strategy
  • Strong analytical skills for translating data into insights
  • Ability to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics with discretion

Responsibilities

  • Design and enhance firmwide development programs for employee skill-building
  • Translate inputs from stakeholders into clear program objectives and materials
  • Develop session agendas, participant communications, and training tools
  • Manage logistics for program delivery including participant selection and session execution
  • Prepare communications and updates for stakeholders and program participants
  • Analyze feedback and data to continuously improve programs

Benefits

  • Comprehensive wellness offerings
  • Valuable and competitive benefits package
  • Support for work-life balance
  • Career development opportunities
  • Access to childcare resources
Full Job Description
Job Description

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

The Talent Development Associate will play a central role in designing, managing, and delivering high-impact development programming that helps our people build the skills, capabilities, and experiences needed to grow and perform across the firm. This role will partner closely with the Talent function, HCM leadership, divisional stakeholders, external vendors, and program participants to translate firm and talent priorities into practical, differentiated learning experiences.

The role sits at the intersection of people development strategy, content design, stakeholder engagement, communications, measurement, and program execution. It requires strong project management, clear communication, sound judgment, and the ability to move seamlessly between strategic planning and detailed delivery. The Associate will help shape development experiences that support employees at key moments in their careers, including leadership development, skill-building programs, coaching, peer learning, speaker-led sessions, and related firmwide talent initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Program Strategy, Design & Development
  • Support the design and evolution of firmwide development experiences that help employees build critical skills, strengthen leadership capabilities, and grow across the firm
  • Translate firm priorities, leadership expectations, participant feedback, and stakeholder input into clear program objectives, learning journeys, session designs, and practical deliverables
  • Develop program strategy materials, agenda concepts, speaker briefs, session objectives, pre-read materials, manager toolkits, participant communications, and discussion guides
  • Partner with Talent colleagues, business leaders, program alumni, and external partners to shape content that is relevant, commercial, and practical for the employee populations served
  • Continuously refine programming based on survey insights, participant feedback, manager input, business priorities, and lessons learned from prior cohorts

Program Execution & Delivery
  • Manage end-to-end execution of development programs, including nominations or participant selection, launch, pre-program engagement, in-person or virtual sessions, peer forums, coaching, post-program follow-up, and closeout
  • Build and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, trackers, rosters, workback schedules, and decision logs across multiple concurrent workstreams
  • Coordinate complex logistics across regions, including participant experience, travel-related planning, briefing sessions, speaker holds, vendor timelines, venue needs, materials production, and day-of delivery
  • Prepare and facilitate program briefings, participant sessions, manager calls, alumni panels, and stakeholder updates as needed
  • Anticipate risks, dependencies, and decision points; escalate thoughtfully and keep stakeholders aligned on progress, open items, and next steps

Stakeholder Management & Executive Communication
  • Serve as a trusted coordination point across key stakeholder groups
  • Draft polished, audience-specific communications for participants, managers, leaders, speakers, internal reviewers, and cross-functional partners
  • Prepare stakeholder materials, including strategy decks, briefing notes, talking points, decision memos, meeting agendas, program updates, and concise leadership-ready summaries
  • Support leader and external speaker engagement, including outreach materials, calendar hold language, session framing, moderator planning, and briefing preparation
  • Navigate sensitive stakeholder dynamics with discretion, clarity, and sound judgment, ensuring communications are appropriately reviewed and aligned before launch

Measurement, Insights & Continuous Improvement
  • Design participant, manager, and stakeholder surveys to assess program needs, experience, learning outcomes, and behavioral impact
  • Analyze survey results, qualitative feedback, participation data, and program outcomes to identify themes, insights, and opportunities for improvement
  • Translate feedback and impact data into concise narratives, recommendations, slide content, and program uplifts for future cohorts
  • Partner with colleagues to maintain organized program records, data sources, impact trackers, and materials repositories
  • Use insights from prior cohorts to strengthen program design, participant experience, manager engagement, and stakeholder reporting

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in talent development, leadership development, learning, human capital strategy, program management, or a related field
  • Strong project management skills, with ability to manage detailed workplans, competing priorities, and multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to draft polished materials for a range of audiences
  • Comfort operating with leaders, managers, participants, and cross-functional partners, including sensitive or high-visibility interactions that require professionalism and discretion
  • Ability to synthesize complex inputs, feedback, and data into clear insights, recommendations, and practical actions
  • Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality work across strategy, content, logistics, and communications

Key Skills & Competencies
  • Program Management: Brings structure, rigor, and follow-through to complex, multi-workstream initiatives
  • Content Design: Develops clear, practical learning materials, session objectives, agendas, toolkits, and communications for varied employee audiences
  • Stakeholder Management: Builds trust and alignment across HCM, leaders, managers, cross-functional partners, vendors, and business stakeholders
  • Executive Communication: Writes with clarity, polish, and audience awareness across emails, decks, talking points, and briefing materials
  • Analytical Judgment: Uses feedback, data, and business context to identify insights and improve programming
  • Discretion & Professionalism: Handles leader engagement, participant information, and sensitive program decisions with care
  • Agility: Moves comfortably between strategic thinking and detailed execution, adapting quickly as priorities evolve

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $85000-$140000. 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.

About The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

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
GS
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