Executive Office, Government Affairs, Associate, Washington DC

Candidate Experience Site - Lateral; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site health centers

On-site child care centers

Generous vacation entitlements

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is recruiting for an Associate in the Executive Office, Government Affairs, based in Washington, DC. You will support legislative engagement, regulatory initiatives, and small business advocacy across verticals, helping position the firm as a policy leader.

You will cultivate relationships with alumni, congressional offices, and internal teams while coordinating events, surveys, and research to amplify policy priorities. Strong communication and analytical skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of key public policy issues, processes, and challenges facing Goldman Sachs and the small business community.
• Experience in advocacy, government affairs, political campaigns, congressional offices, or related roles; policy coverage is a plus.
• Highly motivated, takes ownership of portfolios, and works well independently and in teams.
• High energy, strategic thinker with strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Quorum, and Salesforce.
• DC-based office with occasional travel.
• Undergraduate degree required.

Responsibilities

• Work across verticals in the Office of Government and Regulatory Affairs, supporting legislative engagement, regulatory, and small business advocacy efforts.
• Help establish Goldman Sachs as a thought leader in financial services and small business spaces by promoting initiatives like 10,000 Small Business Voices.
• Cultivate relationships with key internal and external stakeholders in the northeastern U.S., including alumni, congressional offices, consultants, and internal teams.
• Collaborate with the executive office and external partners to deliver events, surveys, research, and newsletters informing policy initiatives.
• Prepare briefing memos and brief senior executives for engagement with policymakers in the U.S. and internationally.
• Follow and analyze policy issues as they advance through governmental bodies and work with partners to assess impact to the firm.
• Organize and drive data and impact metrics using Salesforce, Excel, Quorum, and third-party platforms.

Skills

Public policy

Advocacy experience

Verbal and written communication

Strategic thinking

Interpersonal skills

PowerPoint

Excel

Quorum

Salesforce

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Quorum

Salesforce

Job description

Executive Office, Government Affairs, Associate, Washington DC

Washington, DC, United States

Job Description

About the Executive Office:

The Executive Office plays an integral role in setting and advancing Goldman Sachs’s corporate strategy, and in preserving the firm’s distinctive culture. The Executive Office is responsible for safeguarding the firm’s relationship with alumni, clients, shareholders, policy makers, and the broader public, while ensuring that Goldman Sachs’s own people remain informed about the firm’s evolving priorities. The Executive Office also partners with the firm’s businesses to source high-impact opportunities in line with the firm’s social and sustainability agendas.

The Office of Government and Regulatory Affairs:

The Office of Government and Regulatory Affairs promotes constructive relations with governments and regulators, and supports the firm’s public policy agenda.

Responsibilities:

• Work across verticals in the Office of Government and Regulatory Affairs, supporting the firm's legislative engagement, regulatory, and small business advocacy efforts.
• Help to establish Goldman Sachs as a thought leader in the financial services and small business spaces by executing and promoting initiatives such as 10,000 Small Business Voices, which helps alumni of the firm’s 10,000 Small Businesse program advocate for policy changes that positively impact their businesses and communities.
• Cultivate relationships with key internal and external stakeholders in the northeastern region of the U.S., including 10,000 Small Businesses alumni, congressional offices, consultants, and teams within Goldman Sachs.
• Collaborate across the executive office and external partners to deliver events, develop surveys, research, and newsletters that inform and amplify the firm’s small business and overall policy initiatives.
• Prepare briefing memos and brief senior executives and stakeholders for engagement with policymakers across legislative and regulatory bodies both in the U.S. and internationally
• Follow and analyze policy issues as they advance through governmental bodies and work with internal partners to determine the impact to the firm.
• Organize and drive strategy for managing data and impact metrics on behalf of the Office of Government and Regulatory Affairs, including in Salesforce, Excel, Quorum, and third-party advocacy platforms.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of the key public policy issues, processes, and challenges facing Goldman Sachs and small business community.
• Have demonstrated experience working in advocacy, government affairs, political campaigns, congressional offices, or related roles.Experience covering policy is a plus.
• The successful candidate is a highly-motivated individual who proactively takes ownership of their portfolios and works effectively in both independent and team settings.
• Possess high-energy, and be a strategic thinker with exceptional interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Quorum, and Salesforce.
• Office-based in DC, with occasional travel required.
• An undergraduate degree is required.

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this Washington, DC, United States-based position is $100000-$160000. 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 184498
• Job Category Associate
• Posting Date 09/15/2026, 02:19 PM
• Locations Washington, DC, 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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