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ASSET MANAGEMENT

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential while you discover your own. As part of one of the world's leading asset managers with over $2 trillion in assets under supervision, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions, and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors, and individuals.

QUANTITATIVE INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, the Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) team manages over $170 billion across a variety of mandates including institutional portfolios, high net worth accounts, and mutual funds, using sophisticated quantitative models that have been developed in an innovative research environment. The team is one of the largest quantitative managers in the world and is recognized as an industry leader in quantitative portfolio management techniques. The team manages exposures to global stock, bond, currency, and commodity markets to generate excess return, or "alpha", for client portfolios. The team also manages a platform of advanced beta strategies, which includes various smart beta and hedge fund replication strategies. As one of the longest-running quantitative teams in the industry, QIS has developed a strong reputation for innovation, excellence, teamwork, and camaraderie.

IMPACT

We are looking for a candidate to join the Client Portfolio Management (CPM) team with QIS, based in New York with the responsibility of growing the QIS Liquid Alternatives Business as a product expert with specific product and investor channel focus. 

This is a dynamic role where we split our time between two main areas: client-facing work (which includes pitching strategies to clients, client reporting, and producing client-specific analysis) and product strategy (which includes programming to conduct research for new quantitative strategies and for data analytics / visualization). 

The ideal candidate is passionate about solving quantitative, analytical, and challenges, and also passionate about communicating with and working alongside clients (both prospective and existing) to produce solutions to these challenges.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Lead the team on client engagement strategy and execution for specific product/client engagements
• Serve as a product expert on QIS Liquid Alternative investment products to both internal and external investors
• Deliver on investor activity and asset growth objectives
• Own responsibility for quality and impact of investment content with the purpose of delivering clarity and highlighting QIS Liquid Alternatives products and strategies to investors.
• Develop a strong view of the market and competitive landscape for QIS Liquid Alternatives Strategies
• Design and execute product campaigns and content
• Manage business risk through ensuring quality and consistency of investor communication

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience 
• Knowledge of Liquid Alternatives, Hedge Fund, and/or Bank QIS derivative strategies, their role in the marketplace and benefits they offer investors
• Drive to execute a business strategy, achieve milestones, and develop new business opportunities
• Quantitative mindset with an orientation for precision, clarity, and articulation through comparative statistics and quantitative results.
• Computer programming background (familiarity with a programming language such as Python, Matlab, Java, C / C++) is helpful
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills
• Thrives in a team-oriented and collaborative environment globally
• Strong sense of personal responsibility to deliver solutions for clients, both internal and external
• Flexibility and confidence to take on many different types of problems and tasks
• Outstanding attention to detail, both quantitatively and aesthetically
• Ability to guide new ideas from a concept to finish
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and think clearly under pressure
• Intellectual curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving skills