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Opportunity Overview sitemap_outline CORPORATE TITLE Associate language OFFICE LOCATION(S) Birmingham assignment JOB FUNCTION Product Management account_balance DIVISION Asset & Wealth Management

The firm’s direct-to-consumer business, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, combines the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up with more than 150 years of experience. Today, we help over 900k customers with their savings goals, leveraging innovative design, data, engineering to provide customers with products that are grounded in value, transparency, and simplicity.

Goldman Sachs is looking for aProduct Managerto join the growing Product team within the Assets & Wealth Management Division. The ideal candidate is extremely resourceful with prior experience managing/launching successful products, leading agile teams, and driving decision-making across cross functional groups.

The Product Manager will be responsible for building enhancements, integrating with the firmwide infrastructure and managing the core banking digital platform. You will engage with key stakeholders across business, second line teams, product, engineering, and brand teams to develop, prioritize and own a part of the product roadmap for Goldman Sachs. You will drive the agile development process to deliver new features and functionality, identifying and measuring key metrics to ensure a best-in-class customer experience across our web and mobile properties.

This is an opportunity to make an impact in the industry – delivering value to the customer through delightful UX and thoughtfully curated features. In this role, you will join a team committed to superior customer experience, operating at a fast pace to enhance the GS Deposits product line.

• Lead cross functional teams to define and design differentiated products and experiences across the customer cycle.
• Define feature development, build consensus among stakeholders and partner with engineers and designers to deliver high quality experiences
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative customer feedback to inform product strategy and pipeline development
• Research industry trends and features to develop and pitch recommendations for the product roadmap
• Define new features to be built, write user stories and acceptance criteria and groom stories with developers and designers
• Collaborate with other product managers and designers to ensure cohesiveness of the overall customer experience
• Interface with our customers to build delightful experiences
• Own and drive a product roadmap to meet business goals, achieve key performance indicators and provide a world-class customer experience

• Proven ability to drive meaningful change in a controlled and agile manner
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Team contributor who works well with others
• Experience working in agile business and technology development structure
• Self-directed team player, ability to drive high performance and work independently or in a team-oriented and fast paced environment
• You are an innovator with a deep understanding of digital channels, a track record of innovation and a focus on increasing sales while decreasing cost per acquisition
• Knowledge of iOS and/or Android mobile and tablet platforms

• Bachelor’s degree required, or equivalent
• 3+ years of product management experience in a fast-paced, agile product development environment
• Experience of owning a backlog, leading cross functional teams and managing/launching successful products
• Ability to communicate complex issues to a wide array of internal stakeholders
• Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, consistently adhering to strict deadlines and evolving priorities
• Prior experience of managing & optimizing digital customer journeys, ideally in retail financial services

At 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.

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.