Executive Office, Marketing Operations, Vice President, New York

Candidate Experience Site - Lateral; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking a Vice President, Head of Marketing Operations, to lead and scale the global operational engine that powers Global Marketing. You will report to the COO of Global Marketing and partner with senior leaders to drive measurable business value and efficient execution across the enterprise.

You will oversee budgeting, vendor governance, and the MarTech/AI tooling ecosystem, while guiding a high-performing team and shaping the operating model for marketing.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive experience in marketing operations or related fields.
• Bachelor’s degree is required; MBA or advanced degree optional.
• Proven track record leading multidisciplinary teams in matrixed orgs.
• Direct experience managing large-scale budgets, forecasting, and procurement.
• Strong understanding of enterprise MarTech and AI applications in marketing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with executives and stakeholders.
• Experience delivering strategic, high-level updates to leadership.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and optimize the global marketing operations engine.
• Oversee budget strategy, planning, and capital deployment across functions.
• Direct vendor and agency ecosystem strategies, procurement, and governance.
• Collaborate with MarTech and AI teams on technology strategy and adoption.
• Lead and develop the Global Marketing Operations team with accountability and rigor.
• Lead communications and prepare executive-level updates and governance materials.
• Ensure regulatory alignment and risk management across marketing tech and workflows.

Skills

Marketing operations

Budget management

Leadership

MarTech & AI

Stakeholder management

Financial forecasting

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

MBA or relevant Master’s

Tools

MarTech stacks

Workflow automation engines

AI in marketing

Job description

Executive Office, Marketing Operations, Vice President, New York

New York, NY, United States

Job Description

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. Our mission is to drive commercial impact for the firm and the businesses we serve.

The COO group within Global Marketing sets the operational, strategic, and financial backbone for Global Marketing. The COO function’s mission is to improve the efficiency and efficacy of the global marketing function, operationalizing a best-in-class organization to maximize positive outcomes across all marketing initiatives. In partnership with the CMO and senior marketing leadership, the COO team drives strategic planning, financial discipline, digital and AI transformation, risk management, and operational excellence to ensure seamless execution across the global enterprise.

Role Summary

As the Vice President, Head of Marketing Operations, you will serve as the senior operational leader responsible for building, scaling, and optimizing the operational engine that powers Goldman Sachs Global Marketing. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer of Global Marketing, you will operationalize a best-in-class function to maximize positive business outcomes and scale our marketing capabilities globally.

This leadership role requires a strategic, analytical, and execution-oriented leader who can steer functional operations, lead high-performing teams, shape internal culture, and drive technical transformation. You will oversee budget strategy and capital deployment, direct the global vendor and agency ecosystem strategy to optimize commercial value and partner performance, partner with the firm's Marketing Technology (MarTech) and tooling ecosystem as well as Global Marketing’s AI transformation efforts. Additionally, you will partner closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and business-line marketing teams to embed governance, scale operational impact, and articulate measurable commercial value to executive leadership.

Position Responsibilities

• Operationalize a best-in-class marketing operations function across the global enterprise to continuously improve the efficiency and efficacy of the marketing discipline in support of the firm’s commercial growth objectives..
• Direct the global marketing budget strategy, financial planning, and capital deployment in partnership with Corporate Finance to optimize resource allocation and ensure discipline across agency, platform, and vendor spend.
• Oversee the global marketing vendor and agency ecosystem strategy, establishing centralized sourcing, contract negotiation, and performance governance frameworks to maximize partner ROI.
• Partner with MarTech and the AI team on technology and tooling strategy for Global Marketing, managing the enterprise MarTech ecosystem to ensure scalable infrastructure, seamless interoperability, and high organizational adoption; serve as operating partner to AI team leading artificial intelligence and workflow automation, piloting and operationalizing emerging tools to streamline campaign delivery, content operations, and functional throughput.
• Lead, mentor, and scale the Global Marketing Operations team, cultivating a collaborative, high-performance culture grounded in accountability, talent development, and operational rigor
• Drive marketing-wide culture and executive communications, leading the strategy and execution for Global Town Halls, leadership offsites, quarterly business reviews, and steering committee briefings.
• Partner with Engineering, Legal, and Compliance to maintain proactive operational risk management and ensure all marketing technologies and workflows adhere to firmwide regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive experience in marketing operations, business operations, strategy consulting, or operational transformation within financial services, tech, or highly regulated enterprise environments.
• Bachelor’s Degree (BA/BS); advanced degree (MBA or relevant Master’s) optional.
• Proven track record of leading, managing, and developing multidisciplinary teams in matrixed organizations.
• Direct experience managing large-scale operational budgets, financial forecasting, agency procurement, and resource deployment.
• Deep hands-on and strategic understanding of enterprise MarTech stacks, workflow automation engines, and AI/machine-learning implementations in marketing.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills; demonstrated ability to influence C-suite executives and coordinate senior stakeholders across business, engineering, and control functions.
• Experience producing high-level, strategic deliverables for stakeholder updates

About Goldman Sachs

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

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, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people atGS.com/careers

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $130000-$290000. 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 availableto 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 188405
• Job Category Vice President
• Posting Date 11/03/2026, 10:34 PM
• Locations New York, NY, 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

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.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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