Executive Office: Visual Designer, Associate - New York, NY

Associate, Design

Executive Office, Global Marketing

About the Executive Office

The Executive Office plays an integral role in setting and advancing Goldman Sachs’ strategy and in supporting and enhancing the firm’s distinctive culture.

Our goal is to provide our people, clients, shareholders and the broader public with information about the breadth of our global efforts, highlight our focus on delivering sustainable, long-term returns for our shareholders, and demonstrate our commitment to making an impact on the communities where we live and work and on society more broadly.

About Global Marketing

Led by the firm’s first Chief Marketing Officer, the marketing function at Goldman Sachs is backed by momentum and a broad imperative to unify the discipline, helping to codify a business-critical function seen as core to the firm’s future growth.

As such, Goldman Sachs has built out a data-and-technology enabled team of growth marketers, delivering value for the brand and the business.

The organization consists of a number of centers-of-excellence, in areas such as Brand, Media, Content, and Design, as well as marketing leads for each of our revenue divisions.

Together, this team collaborates to bring a unified, scalable, and consistent approach to marketing the brand and its offerings.

Our mission is to be a demonstrable force multiplier for the businesses we serve.

Within Global Marketing sits the Design team, which is charged with upleveling the design craft of our marketing output and modernizing our visual design experiences. They do this by :

• Keeping current the firm’s approach to design strategy, execution, and a single UX design system, to ensure modernity and ease of use across touchpoints
• Partnering with brand and business marketers to apply brilliant design skills to marketing efforts, ranging from ongoing campaigns, to individual social media assets, collateral and publications, and events
• Bringing together a community of designers sitting across the firm to govern around brand and design guidelines; share work and best practices;

and foster connections and talent development

Role Summary

Goldman Sachs is evolving. With over 150 years of excellence behind us and an ambitious commercial vision propelling us forward, our business serves a range of audiences in increasingly brand-forward and digitally oriented ways.

With these shifts come new opportunities to protect, communicate, and reinvent our brand. Among them, a mandate to boldly articulate our value in the world and a focus on proving the power of the overarching Goldman Sachs brand as a force for growth.

To that end, we’re looking for an experienced Visual Designer to deliver world-class design solutions befitting a remarkable firm and brand.

The ideal candidate will have a background that blends brand design and digital experience, with a book filled with contemporary craft of the highest caliber.

They are an active collaborator and hands-on visual design practitioner who can deliver pioneering solutions that are as on-brief as they are on-point, focused on interpreting an invigorated Goldman Sachs brand into compelling visual experiences.

You will work with a passionate team of peers that span brand marketing, design systems, video, and product design both centrally and across the breadth of the firm..

Role and Responsibilities

• Execute and implement the brand’s visual identity across diverse global platforms, touchpoints, and expressions.
• Lead day-to-day brand and marketing design projects spanning digital properties, content, social media, collateral, and experiential from print to all screens large and small.
• Partner with marketing leaders, cross-functional teams, and agency partners to develop and deploy design-focused campaigns and brand experiences.
• Evangelize and showcase the firm’s brand, visual identity, and design system to establish and uphold standards of excellence for design at Goldman Sachs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading end-to-end design projects in an agency and / or Fortune 500 corporate environment.
• Detail obsessed with a portfolio of work that demonstrates best-in-class craft across digital and non-digital content, campaigns, and products.
• Experience in financial services or similarly complex businesses delivering outcome-oriented work that works.
• Able to provide concise and focused rationale to communicate concepts and design treatments through persuasive written and verbal storytelling.

About Us

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 / careers .

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process.