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

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

New York, NY, United States

The 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. We are responsible for safeguarding the firm's relationship with alumni, clients, shareholders, policy makers, and the broader public, while ensuring that our own people remain informed about the firm's evolving priorities. We also partner with the businesses to source high-impact opportunities in line with the firm's social and sustainability agendas.

Our Executive Office is a group of teams that shapes corporate strategy, culture, and brand. Whether communicating with employees, managing our brand, or articulating our strategy to investors and analysts, our work directly impacts how the firm is viewed by a variety of crucial stakeholders. You'll be part of a team of excellent communicators who are comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.

Office of the Chairman

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

Overview

Conferences and events are a key opportunity to enhance the firm’s brand and continue to position Goldman Sachs as a thought leader and convener. A core part of our conference and event strategy is to select speakers whose content can help align with our business strategy and our own thought leadership priorities. Due to the dynamic and evolving nature of our business, the strategy and execution for sourcing content and speakers remains necessarily fluid and requires constant research and relationship management, both internally and externally.

Conferences

• 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
• Maintain tracking and data strategy for internal and external conferences
• Coordinate cross-divisional events on similar topics for similar audiences
• Partner with firmwide host teams, stakeholders 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.

Speakers- GS Speakers Bureau

The GS Speakers Bureau will act as a “market-maker” for harnessing the firm’s relationships and helping to align 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 will aim to build a deep and diverse bench of internal speakers and subject matter experts 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 and build on these lists, seeking to build 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 speakers bureaus and agencies (as needed), and managing contracts, legal/compliance clearance, logistics and payments with external speakers.
• Optimization – Seek to identify ways to optimize our engagement with speakers and maximize the reach and impact of their messages and content, for example coordinating additional, ancillary sessions/events for select groups, repurposing content for a variety of internal and external channels,…