GS Accelerate Scribe - Product Designer

Job Description

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Accelerate is a firmwide initiative to foster innovation and collaboration across divisions, with a focus on the firm’s future growth. The projects we fund will focus on building brand new business ideas for GS, while offering employees the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, start-up like environment.

All of the ideas and businesses in which we are investing have key technical components to explore and develop. As such, Accelerate is focused on creating a dynamic, flexible environment that can rapidly create and deliver new products for our businesses. Many of these projects are either to deliver proofs-of-concepts or minimum viable products in exciting greenfield environments, while others are expanding current strategic platforms to integrate with one another in new, client-focused ways.

The Scribe team is building a digital backbone to transform tools for the alternatives industry. We are looking for a talented and passionate product designer who thrives in an entrepreneurial and 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 roadmap.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for all aspects of design for your projects from inception through launch
• Contribute to product strategy by identifying new opportunities, designing innovative solutions, and improving existing features
• Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes
• Leverage large and complex data sets to design data-driven analytics tooling and insights
• Multi-institution workflows
• Partner closely with engineering, product, and business to find elegant but practical solutions to design challenges.
• Listening to users to develop the right product strategy and solutions
• Work closely with the head of design of GS Accelerate (high level direction and mentorship)

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience as a product designer
• A portfolio of strong design work
• Cross-platform experience (Desktop and Mobile Web, Android, iOS)
• Deep understanding of data visualization
• Highly skilled in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), Sketch, Figma, and Framer
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
• Ability to clearly explain your creative process in how you approach problems and provide solutions
• Enthusiasm for an iterative design process
• Work well under pressure in a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Self-starter and ability to work independently

Why GS Accelerate:

• Unparalleled responsibility and career opportunity to make a highly visible global impact
• Mentorship through GS’s network of designers and product engineers
• Opportunity to work in a start-up-like environment, while enjoying a safety of an established company
• You will be part of a large community of like-minded technologists in a flat organization with a culture that promotes collaboration, “can do” mindsets and teamwork
• Forge strong relationships with our clients across all of our businesses, as well as other technology teams to develop and enhance our systems and processes
• Develop solutions that directly impact the bottom line by enabling new investment opportunities for our business partners
• Opportunity to work on unprecedented projects both at Goldman Sachs & more broadly in the financial services industry

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS

ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHSAt 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. We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

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