Executive Office, Speaker & Conference Strategy, Vice President, New York

Executive Office

The Executive Office plays an integral role in setting and advancing Goldman Sachs’ corporate strategy, and in preserving the firm’s distinctive culture. It safeguards the firm’s relationships with alumni, clients, shareholders, policy makers, and the broader public, while ensuring that our own people remain informed about evolving priorities. It also partners with business units to source high‑impact opportunities in line with the firm’s social and sustainability agendas.

The Office of the Chairman oversees internal and external key strategic initiatives across the firm, including communications and investor, government, community and client engagement. Within this office, the Client Strategy Group works closely with Goldman Sachs executives to prioritize and organize their interactions in support of these initiatives.

Conferences and events are key opportunities to enhance the firm’s brand and continue positioning Goldman Sachs as a thought leader and convener. A core part of the conference and event strategy is selecting speakers whose content aligns with business strategy and thought‑leadership priorities. Due to the dynamic nature of the business, the strategy and execution for sourcing content and speakers remains fluid and requires constant research and relationship management, both internally and externally.

• Prioritize conferences and events using a tiered framework
• Assist internal teams in crafting an overall objective and scope for their conferences (prioritizing flagship engagements)
• Advise on content development and speaker opportunities
• Coordinate leadership participation
• Maintain tracking and data strategy for internal and external conferences
• Coordinate cross‑divisional events on similar topics for similar audiences
• Partner with firm‑wide host teams, stakeholders, and the Events team globally to embed culture and history into select conferences and events
  • Evaluate and implement AI‑enabled solutions to support speaker research, profile management, workflow automation, reporting, conference analysis, and operational efficiency initiatives.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies across conference strategy, external speaker engagement, and platform management activities.

The GS Speakers Bureau will act as a "market‑maker" for harnessing the firm’s relationships and aligning the right speaker(s) – internal and external – with the right events and programming, no matter where they originate or are located, optimizing the process, outcomes and ROI. The bureau aims to build a deep and diverse bench of internal speakers and subject‑matter experts that the firm can deploy strategically for internal and external events.

• Sourcing – compile and centralize lists of internal and external speakers and their areas of expertise, building an ever‑growing roster of diverse talent.
• Engagement – develop a consistent set of guidelines around all aspects of this process, including sourcing the right speaker(s) for specific events, engaging with external speaker bureaus and agencies (as needed), and managing contracts, legal/compliance clearance, logistics and payments with external speakers.
• Optimization – seek to identify ways to optimize engagement with speakers and maximize the reach and impact of their messages and content, e.g., coordinating additional, ancillary sessions/events for select groups, repurposing content for a variety of internal and external channels, etc.
• Data Management – work with EO Engineering on SEEH, Salesforce, and GS Speakers Bureau to enhance data capture, dashboards, and reporting.

• Act as Executive Office representative/voice on content and speakers for all top‑tier conferences, signature events (flagship conferences) and special events (10
  
  KSB events, etc.)
• Partner with businesses and host teams to define conference and speaker objectives and priorities for client experience
• Research relevant and engaging speakers
• Develop strong relationships with speakers directly or with their exclusive representation (agency)
• Ensure…