Associate-Product Engineering- Dallas

GS Accelerate is a firmwide platform to foster innovation and collaboration across Goldman Sachs, with a focus on the firm's future growth. Accelerate focuses on building brand new businesses for GS, while offering employees the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

We are building a new digital business that is a ground-up on-cloud engineering project. As such, we are focused on creating a dynamic, flexible environment that can rapidly create and deliver. Our #1 business principle is "Our clients' interests always come first. Our experience shows that if we serve our clients well, our own success will follow". Every customer is given maximum attention to understand their needs. We adopt the most appropriate approach to drive the business of the customer or institution towards the desired growth. We apply the same approach to the way we build digital products and deliver customer-centric, world class products through the collaborative work we do in Product Management.

We are looking for experienced Product Management Associates, who will maintain close relationships with our clients and all stakeholders (users, business leadership, developers, research, design, etc.) in a dynamic environment to define and deliver the product end-to-end. We expect the successful candidate to be familiar with product development and management and to have a proven track record in actively contributing to the delivery of platforms from inception to completion. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic about working with end users to specify requirements and elicit feedback in addition to driving build and execution. We are looking for a talented and passionate Product Management Associate who thrives in an extremely entrepreneurial, fast paced environment. This is a high visibility role, backed by some of the senior-most leaders of the firm, and as such, will require creativity and drive to deliver on an ambitious road-map.

How will you fulfil your potential?

As a Product Management Associate at Goldman Sachs, you will be working cross-functionally from conception through launch, growth and maturity of the product by connecting the technical and business worlds to meet our customers at their needs. You will break down complex problems into steps that drive product development and release adopting the principals of a phased approach and by leveraging agile methodologies.

Responsibilities include:

• Work effectively and efficiently in a fast paced, dynamic team working environment
• Incorporating data, user research and market analysis to inform product strategy and roadmaps
• Actively contribute to the strategic direction of the product by working closely with the teams across the organization
• Balance creative vision with technical feasibility, repeatedly pushing our software to the edge of what's possible
• Drive delivery through product development scrums and escalate risks early on
• Partner with Technology and Business stakeholders to track and deliver on key OKRs
• Proactively identify areas to improve processes and product features based on user feedback
• Manage product backlog, prioritize tasks, and ensure deadlines are met
• Lead product ideation, creation of inputs for wire framing, refinement
• Lead the delivery of UAT testing and roll out of the product

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 2 years of previous work experience as a Product Manager, or similar role
• Ability to communicate complex problems and roadmaps to stakeholders
• Demonstrated success collaborating with design and engineering peers, and stakeholders
• Experience in performing product demos to user and eliciting feedback
• Comfortable with Agile processes, with an emphasis on writing high-quality acceptance criteria and eliciting requirements
• Self-directed team player, ability to drive high performance and work independently or in a team-oriented and fast paced environment
• Excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to set, meet and exceed targets

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience managing an entire product's lifecycle, from conception to launch
• Technical background
• Familiarity with JIRA and GitLab
• Experience building financial products

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

ENGINEERING - At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don't just make things - we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.