Executive Office, Speaker & Conference Strategy, Vice President, New York

Executive Office
The Executive Office plays an integral role in setting and advancing Goldman Sachs’ corporate strategy, and in preserving the firm’s distinctive culture. It safeguards the firm’s relationships with alumni, clients, shareholders, policy makers, and the broader public, while ensuring that our own people remain informed about evolving priorities. It also partners with business units to source high‑impact opportunities in line with the firm’s social and sustainability agendas.

Office of the Chairman
The Office of the Chairman oversees internal and external key strategic initiatives across the firm, including communications and investor, government, community and client engagement. Within this office, the Client Strategy Group works closely with Goldman Sachs executives to prioritize and organize their interactions in support of these initiatives.

Overview
Conferences and events are key opportunities to enhance the firm’s brand and continue positioning Goldman Sachs as a thought leader and convener. A core part of the conference and event strategy is selecting speakers whose content aligns with business strategy and thought‑leadership priorities. Due to the dynamic nature of the business, the strategy and execution for sourcing content and speakers remains fluid and requires constant research and relationship management, both internally and externally.

Conferences

Prioritize conferences and events using a tiered framework

Assist internal teams in crafting an overall objective and scope for their conferences (prioritizing flagship engagements)

Advise on content development and speaker opportunities

Coordinate leadership participation

Maintain tracking and data strategy for internal and external conferences

Coordinate cross‑divisional events on similar topics for similar audiences

Partner with firm‑wide host teams, stakeholders, and the Events team globally to embed culture and history into select conferences and events

Evaluate and implement AI‑enabled solutions to support speaker research, profile management, workflow automation, reporting, conference analysis, and operational efficiency initiatives.

Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies across conference strategy, external speaker engagement, and platform management activities.

GS Speakers Bureau
The GS Speakers Bureau will act as a "market‑maker" for harnessing the firm’s relationships and aligning the right speaker(s) – internal and external – with the right events and programming, no matter where they originate or are located, optimizing the process, outcomes and ROI. The bureau aims to build a deep and diverse bench of internal speakers and subject‑matter experts that the firm can deploy strategically for internal and external events.

Sourcing – compile and centralize lists of internal and external speakers and their areas of expertise, building an ever‑growing roster of diverse talent.

Engagement – develop a consistent set of guidelines around all aspects of this process, including sourcing the right speaker(s) for specific events, engaging with external speaker bureaus and agencies (as needed), and managing contracts, legal/compliance clearance, logistics and payments with external speakers.

Optimization – seek to identify ways to optimize engagement with speakers and maximize the reach and impact of their messages and content, e.g., coordinating additional, ancillary sessions/events for select groups, repurposing content for a variety of internal and external channels, etc.

Data Management – work with EO Engineering on SEEH, Salesforce, and GS Speakers Bureau to enhance data capture, dashboards, and reporting.

Consulting: Strategy, Content Development, Speaker Vetting and Due Diligence

Act as Executive Office representative/voice on content and speakers for all top‑tier conferences, signature events (flagship conferences) and special events (10KSB events, etc.)

Partner with businesses and host teams to define conference and speaker objectives and priorities for client experience

Research relevant and engaging speakers

Develop strong relationships with speakers directly or with their exclusive representation (agency)

Ensure speakers are drawn from various industries, regions and backgrounds

Recommend speakers / create speaker lists for internal groups

Provide feedback on speakers submitted by internal groups

Confirm the same speakers are not utilized repeatedly

Perform due diligence, vet speakers with other groups

Obtain approvals / post stakeholders on various teams for external speakers

Create, advise on and review session themes, content, speaker questions, etc.

Review conference and speaker decks

Create and maintain operational documentation, resource libraries, standards, reference materials, internal websites, and knowledge repositories supporting conference and speaker management activities.

Maintain speaker engagement resources, conference resource pages, SEEH resource hubs, and process documentation.

Relationship Management and Negotiation

Executive Office liaison with speaker bureaus, agents, representatives, publishers

Work with speaker bureaus to identify speakers, check availability, negotiate fees, etc., or work directly with the speaker

Look for opportunities to maximize utilization of speakers (e.g., additional roundtable, meet and greet, Talks at GS)

Execute book buys for select speakers

Confirm a "Thank You" email goes to the speaker (same day as engagement preferred)

Execution

Partner with Events Management Group and Self‑Managed event stakeholders on logistics to ensure positive speaker experience

Travel, hotel, car service, parking, etc.

Confirm platform and A/V setup

Create / review / distribute briefing documents for speakers and moderators

Provide oversight on room reservations

Ensure each speaker has a proper introduction from a senior GS Host and seamless interactions throughout their engagement

Speaker and Event Engagement Hub (SEEH)

Approvals – review all external speaker engagement requests submitted via the Speaker and Event Engagement Hub on behalf of the Executive Office and submit action via eTask

Answer any questions from Approver Groups (e.g., Media Relations, Government Affairs, Business Intelligence Group) regarding PERMIT roles, specific speakers, and SES troubleshooting

Ongoing system enhancements

Provide input and oversight on recommended enhancements to improve the user experience and approval process for external speakers

Manage development and integration of approval process for GS speakers speaking internally and externally (Speakers Bureau)

SEEH Training, Education & Change Management

Approvals – review all external speaker engagement requests submitted via the Speaker and Event Engagement Hub on behalf of the Executive Office and submit action via eTask

Answer any questions from Approver Groups (e.g., Media Relations, Government Affairs, Business Intelligence Group) regarding PERMIT roles, specific speakers, and SES troubleshooting

Ongoing system enhancements

Provide input and oversight on recommended enhancements to improve the user experience and approval process for external speakers

Manage development and integration of approval process for GS speakers speaking internally and externally (Speakers Bureau)

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States‑based position is $125,000–$250,000. 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 delivering 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.

#J-18808-Ljbffr