Asset & Wealth Management, External Investing Group, Venture Secondary Team, Investment Associate

We are seeking an intellectually curious Associate to join our growing investment team. This individual will play a key role in sourcing, analyzing, and executing investments throughout the entire deal process. The role also includes involvement in operational initiatives, adopting internal AI technology, and supporting fundraising efforts. Associates take on substantial responsibility and are a crucial component to the deal teams and investment decisions.

Responsibilities

• Create financial analyses, models, and internal memos to evaluate potential investments
• Drive due diligence processes for direct and fund investments
• Understand market trends and develop industry perspectives through research and market sector reports
• Assist in proactively sourcing new investment opportunities
• Analyze, monitor, and manage current portfolio holdings
• Represent the firm at annual meetings, investor conferences, and industry events to build relationships
• Assist in various operational activities, testing/adopting internal AI technology, and fundraising endeavors

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) with a outstanding academic track record
• 2-3 years of relevant experience in investment banking, consulting, venture capital, growth equity, or investments
• Adaptive team player with collaborative working style, excellent interpersonal skills, and effective communication
• Commitment to excellence, attention to detail, and a strong work ethic
• Proactive attitude with flexibility to take on special projects
• Curious and open mind for technology trends, products, and business models across multiple segments
• Passion for understanding venture capital and technology from an investment, legal, and operational perspective

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. 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. : https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

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Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this San Francisco, California, United States-based position is $100000-$170000. 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.

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.