Executive Office, Global Marketing, Senior Design Manager, Design Systems, Vice President, New York

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial firm seeks a Senior Design Manager to scale its design systems within the Global Marketing Team. This role involves managing a team, driving design governance, and ensuring high-quality digital experiences for clients. Candidates should have extensive experience in UX/UI design and a strong understanding of accessibility standards.

Benefits

Generous vacation entitlements

Medical advocacy service

On-site fitness centers

Child care centers

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in UX/UI design or product design.
• 3+ years of design leadership or management experience.
• Proven track record of scaling design systems.

Responsibilities

• Execute the roadmap and governance model for the design system.
• Oversee design decisions for consistency and usability.
• Lead a team of design system designers.

Skills

UX/UI design

Design systems

Stakeholder management

Communication

Accessibility standards

Tools

Figma

React

Swift UI

Job description

Executive Office, Global Marketing, Senior Design Manager, Design Systems, Vice President, New York

New York, New York, United States

Job Description

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. We are responsible for safeguarding the firm’s relationship with alumni, clients, shareholders, policy makers, and the broader public, while ensuring that our own people remain informed about the firm’s evolving priorities. We also partner with the businesses to source high-impact opportunities in line with the firm’s social and sustainability agendas.

About Goldman Sachs Marketing

Led by the firm’s first Chief Marketing Officer, the marketing function at Goldman Sachs is backed by momentum and a broad imperative to unify the discipline, helping to codify a business-critical function seen as core to the firm’s future growth. As such, GS is focused on building out a data-and-technology enabled team of growth marketers, delivering value for the brand and the business. The organization consists of COE teams including Brand Marketing, Marketing Strategy & Transformation, Content, Design, Media, and Marketing Tech and Effectiveness, as well as marketing teams for each of our revenue businesses. Together, this function collaborates to build a unified, scalable, and consistent approach to marketing the brand and its offerings. Our mission is to be a demonstrable force multiplier for the firm and the businesses we serve.

About the Role

We are seeking a vice president, Senior Design Manager, Design Systems, to lead and continue to scale our enterprise-wide core design system within the Global Marketing Team in the Executive Office. This individual will be responsible for driving the governance and adoption of a robust, scalable, and accessible design system that empowers teams to create cohesive and high-quality digital experiences for Goldman Sachs clients and prospective clients.

As a leader within the marketing and design organization, you will manage and mentor a team of design system designers while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams to ensure alignment and efficiency across all platforms. This role also requires a hands-on approach being able to assess Figma component designs as well as implementation approach while collaborating with the engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Execute the roadmap and governance model for the central design system to support multiple product teams and platforms.
• Oversee design decisions to balance consistency and usability with flexibility, ensuring the system scales effectively while meeting a broad range of product needs.
• Advocate for design system adoption across the organization, securing stakeholder alignment and executive buy-in.
• Work alongside the product managers and engineering leads to establish joint success metrics and track the impact of the design system on product teams, user experience, and development efficiency.
• Lead a team of design system designers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Host office hours, governance reviews and facilitate knowledge sharing, training, and onboarding to increase adoption and contributions across teams.
• Oversee the design creation, evolution and execution of UI components, patterns, design tokens, and documentation from Figma through to code.
• Ensure the design system meets accessibility (WCAG 2.1+), performance, and usability standards.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices and emerging technologies into the system.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in UX/UI design or product design, with a focus on design systems.
• 3+ years of design leadership or management experience.
• Expertise in Figma and knowledgeable in development technologies (React, design tokens, Swift UI).
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and best practices for inclusive design.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience influencing cross-functional teams.
• Proven track record of scaling design systems within enterprise or multi-product organizations.

Knowledge of principles and best practices in motion design and branding and how those are present and exposed within a design system.

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $125000-$250000. 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 .

Job Info

• Job Identification 148029
• Job Category Vice President
• Posting Date 05/19/2025, 09:20 PM
• Locations New York, New York, United States

Healthcare & Medical Services

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

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

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).

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.

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