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Asset & Wealth Management, Alternative Investment Platform, Private Secondaries Group, Associate - Salt Lake City

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Job Description

YOUR IMPACT

Alternative Investment Platform is seeking an Associate to join the Private Secondaries Group, focusing on PSG Platform Strategy and Management

OUR IMPACT

Wealth Management

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data and design.

About Alternative Investment Platform (AIP)

The Alternative Investment Platform is a global team comprised of 100+ alternative investment professionals across 13 offices, including New York, San Francisco, Miami, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Albany, Zurich, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, Bengaluru, Shanghai, and Singapore. The team is responsible for ~$200B in AUS, serving institutions, foundations, family offices, high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals for Goldman Sachs Wealth Management. AIP, one of the leading allocators globally, includes the Alternative Capital Markets business, focused on curating a best-in-class alternatives platform and client experience across Goldman Sachs managed and externally managed strategies. The team curates investment opportunities for clients across the alternatives landscape, advises on building alternatives portfolios, and manages discretionary portfolios through our Alternatives Portfolio Services (APS) platform. Additionally, AIP includes our Private Company Investments (PCI) team and Private Secondaries Group (PSG).

The Private Secondaries Group is a leading private markets secondary solutions team that advises clients on liquidity, portfolio optimization, and secondary investment opportunities. The team executes transactions across private fund interests, direct company exposures, structured liquidity solutions, and Goldman Sachs-sponsored investment vehicles. Leveraging deep market expertise and a broad investor network, PSG helps clients actively manage private market portfolios while providing access to differentiated secondary market opportunities in one of the fastest-growing segments of alternative investing.

Role Overview

This Associate role offers the opportunity to play a key role in the continued growth and evolution of the Private Secondaries Group. This individual will be responsible for executing and managing complex secondary transactions and private asset liquidity events across the PSG platform. Acting as a central coordinator across deal teams and key support functions, including Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Technology, this individual will help ensure seamless transaction execution from launch through closing. In addition, the role offers significant opportunity to contribute to the design, optimization, and scaling of the business by developing new processes, enhancing platform infrastructure, and driving strategic initiatives that support continued growth and innovation across the Private Secondaries Group.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

Deal Execution & Business Operations

  • Transaction Execution: Support the execution and closing of secondary transactions, including quarterly auctions, LP-led sales, GP-led liquidity events, and strategic platform transactions.
  • Cross-Functional Coordination: Partner across Deal Teams, Operations, Legal, Compliance, Tax, and Technology to facilitate seamless transaction execution and issue resolution.
  • Process Enhancement: Help design and improve workflows, controls, and operating procedures to increase efficiency, mitigate risk, and support business growth.
  • Stakeholder Management: Coordinate with internal teams, fund managers, custodians, transfer agents, and other external partners throughout the transaction lifecycle.
  • Risk & Compliance Oversight: Support adherence to regulatory requirements, firm policies, and risk management standards across all transactions.

Platform Development & Strategic Growth

  • Platform Scaling: Partner with senior leadership, Technology, and external vendors to enhance the infrastructure and operating model supporting the PSG platform.
  • Strategic Initiatives: Drive execution of key business and platform initiatives that support scalability, operational excellence, and client experience.
  • Automation & Innovation: Identify and implement opportunities for automation, workflow optimization, and technology-enabled solutions to improve execution and support growth.
  • Business Management Support: Assist senior leadership in evaluating new processes, capabilities, and strategic opportunities to help shape the continued evolution of the Private Secondary Group.

EXPERIENCE / SKILLS

  • Bachelors Degree or higher.
  • 3+ years of experience in financial services, with a strong preference for operations, transaction management, middle office, or deal execution roles within wealth/asset management or private investing.
  • Proven track record of managing complex operational workflows, deal closings, or settlement processes.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to act as a bridge between deal teams and support teams.
  • Strong project management skills with an efficiency-focused mindset and the ability to balance complex timelines.
  • High attention to detail, strong risk awareness, and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, transaction-oriented environment.
  • Self-starter who can work independently while maintaining strong collaborative ties across global functions.

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

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.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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