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YOUR IMPACT

This Associate of Design Systems will have a track record of creating and assisting on managing Design Systems. This individual will support an ambitious and talented team of designers to help plan and execute a best-in-class Web and Native Design System. This Associate will collaborate with cross-functional teams: Working closely with other designers, product managers, developers, and other key stakeholders to ensure that the Design Systems meet business goals and user needs.

As an experienced, hands-on designer, you should have expertise in everything Design Systems, including design patterns, component guidelines, and style guides. This Associate should have exceptional Figma skills, and extremely comfortable building advance components with variants.

In addition, it is critical to have experience conducting research and analysis to inform Design System decisions. Providing guidance and support to designers and developers who are utilizing the Design System to ensure they are using it effectively and consistently.

With an eye for detail, this Design Associate will help evolve the high standards of creativity and innovation, raising the bar, so other team members do the same. The best candidate for this position rolls up their sleeves and brings design to life, while partnering with the business to ensure every approach and process is primed for success. There will need to be regular collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to bring the voice of the user to the surface, representing design decisions across the organization. This role will collaborate with other designers and senior leaders to foster and maintain an inclusive design culture across the division, while delivering consistent and extensible experiences that function as one unified family of services across the group.

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.

Private Wealth Management (PWM)

Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management (PWM) specializes in creating comprehensive wealth management plans for high net worth individuals and families, as well as select institutions, including foundations and endowments. PWM Teams work one-on-one with clients to advise and deliver customized strategies drawn from our deep investment experience, diverse wealth management capabilities and global reach. Our Private Wealth Advisors (PWAs) deliver an unparalleled investment platform inclusive of the full product and service offerings of Goldman Sachs and beyond, which may include tax and estate planning, philanthropic planning and private banking and lending services. As client needs evolve, this close relationship allows the team to offer complementary services and new opportunities by leveraging the resources of Goldman Sachs and beyond.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Collaborating and partnering -Develop and inspire those around you across product, engineering and PMO; Improving and evolving existing processes and tactics in order to maximize efficiency and elevate the quality of work
• Continuously changing and improving -Sought by senior leadership for progressive and innovative counsel, ideas and solutions
• Making effective and decisive decisions -Provide unscripted strategic counsel-can "think on your feet" without disrupting strategic intention
• Leading and communicating -Viewed as a role model and senior contributor within the organization
• Influence of experience quality - Link the highest quality of design execution to each strategic initiative, business and client outcome.
• Humility at the highest level -Welcome the constructive criticism of the work and be able to reflect with an informed perspective in order to change, adapt and evolve
• Empower your co-workers -Contributes to team-building activities and growth paths
• Challenge opinions appropriately -Listen, observe, and respond. Apply logic and reasoning to ask the right questions at the right time to influence those around you into creating the best solution for the business and clients
• Storytelling and presentation skills -Create clear, compelling and cohesive prototypes and presentations that frame context with priority and need, so audiences can be taken on an informative, and intuitive journey
• Empathy & Curiosity -Drive inquisitive thinking, exploration and investigation with teams and, stakeholders. Monitoring best practices, understanding how we feel and react to moments of need, opportunity and challenge. Leveraging data, analytics to inform your decisions

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 3-5 years of professional experience designing design systems
• Consumer product design experience
• Expertise with modern design tools (Adobe suite, Figma, Miro, prototyping tools)
• Experience in design thinking/ human centered design
• Ability to lead and facilitate while executing design for a growing team
• Experience defining creative vision
• Demonstrated experience building relationships and influencing business stakeholders
• A proven track record of defining and promoting change and innovation
• Great presentation, storytelling, workshop and communication skills
• Strong problem-solving and organization skills
• A positive, constructive can-do attitude
• The ability to work independently as well as collaboratively and to both lead and create
• An obsession with digital trends and design patterns
• Proven ability to translate vision and user feedback into actionable outcomes
• Strong familiarity with data, analytics and technology (both front and back-end)
• The ability to translate concepts into initiatives and systems
• A clean design aesthetic and the ability to simplify the complex
• Consumer banking or FinTech experience

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.

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Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $85000-$160000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .

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