Associate – Foundation Engineering Product Management - Operations
Engineering Division
The Engineering Organization is the largest employee group at the firm and includes the Engineering Division and technology and strategist groups embedded in the revenue and federation divisions. Our engineers envision, build and deploy industry-leading innovations that drive our businesses and provide innovative technical and quantitative solutions for our clients.
About the Team
Foundation Engineering, a part of the Engineering Division, is responsible for delivering engineering excellence through reliable, resilient systems, platforms and infrastructure that enable how Goldman Sachs builds, operates, and scales its technology Products in support of the firm and our clients.
The Product Operations team within Foundation Engineering is dedicated to optimizing processes, delivering insights, and providing tooling, governance, and frameworks to ensure Product Managers are working effectively and efficiently at scale. Join our team and help us further our mission to Transform how our organizations operate, collaborating alongside Product, Engineering, and our Business Partners as we enable AI-embedded workflows, modernize our Insight Intelligence, and drive Product excellence while continuously delivering on Customer’s most important needs.
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly organized, analytical, and collaborative Associate to join our Foundation Engineering Product Management - Operations team.
In this role, you will serve as the operational backbone of the product team. You will help streamline product development processes, improve cross-functional communication, manage product analytics, and ensure our Product teams have the tools and data they need to build high-quality foundational products efficiently.
This role offers strong exposure to senior leadership, the Product Management community, with opportunities to lead initiatives, influence stakeholders, and help shape how Product executes on behalf of Engineering strategy.
Qualifications & Skills
- Experience: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business, Finance, Engineering, or related discipline. 2-5 years’ experience in Product Management, Operations, Change Management, or Project/Program Management roles in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment.
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to synthesize and translate complex technical information into clear, actionable insights understood by cross-functional stakeholders.
- Proven Execution: Demonstrated ability to operate with an execution mindset and take ownership of deliverables end-to-end. Ability to manage multiple projects at once, often operating in ambiguous environments with evolving requirements and processes.
- Analytical Mindset: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail. Experience working with data, dashboards, and reporting, with a focus on accuracy, consistency, and insight generation.
- Team Oriented: Ability to contribute to and grow within a team focused on improving execution, reporting, and decision making. Proactively identifies risks, gaps, and inefficiencies, while also contributing to solutions.
- AI Literacy & Productivity: Hands on experience leveraging generative AI tools to automate everyday tasks. Experience using AI-powered integrations or low-code/no-code automation tooling.
- Technical Familiarity: Basic understanding or interest in Product Management, Software Development, and/or emerging technologies, including AI or workflow automation solutions preferred. You do not need to write code, but you must be comfortable discussing technical concepts across stakeholder groups.
- Tooling Expertise: Hands on
We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits
Healthcare & Medical Insurance
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.
Holiday & Vacation Policies
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.
Financial Wellness & Retirement
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.
Health Services
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.
Fitness
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).
Child Care & Family Care
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.
Benefits at Goldman Sachs
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