Global Markets Transformation Associate

Goldman Sachs Bank AG; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

Financial Wellness & Retirement

On-site Health Centers

Job summary

Goldman Sachs is seeking an Associate for the Global Banking & Markets Operations Transformation Office in Dallas. You will lead enterprise-scale initiatives, shape future-state operating models, and translate strategy into actionable product roadmaps.

You will work with Operations, Sales, Trading, Engineering, and UX teams to deliver scalable, user-centric solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience across management consulting, transformation strategy, operating model design, product management, business architecture, or related disciplines within financial services.
• Proven track record leading large-scale, cross-functional transformation programs from strategy through execution with measurable business impact.
• Strong commercial acumen, including business case development, financial modeling, value realization, and ROI measurement.
• Deep expertise in Target Operating Model design across organizational, process, technology, data, and governance domains.
• Strong product management discipline, including roadmap development, backlog prioritization, Agile delivery, and user-centered design.
• Outstanding executive communication and storytelling skills, with experience influencing senior stakeholders and leadership forums.

Responsibilities

• Structure highly ambiguous business challenges into clear, hypothesis-driven workstreams with measurable success criteria.
• Develop transformation theses, business cases, and investment strategies that support revenue growth, cost efficiency, risk reduction, control enhancement, and capital optimization.
• Articulate a compelling commercial rationale for every initiative, quantifying expected value and defining clear ROI outcomes.
• Partner with business leaders to define multi-year transformation priorities, roadmaps, and sequencing aligned to strategic objectives.
• Apply first-principles thinking to challenge legacy processes, identify root causes, and unlock step-change improvements.
• Own business outcomes, not just deliverables, establishing value hypotheses, success metrics, and benefit tracking mechanisms.
• Translate operating model designs into product strategies, epics, user stories, and prioritized backlogs.
• Drive prioritization decisions using business value, ROI, technical feasibility, operational risk, and user impact considerations.
• Champion user-centered design through close partnership with UX teams and front-line users to improve adoption and experience.
• Lead initiatives through execution and implementation, ensuring capabilities are delivered into production and successfully embedded within business operations.
• Identify opportunities to embed AI, automation, and intelligent workflows as foundational components of future-state operating models.
• Design human-in-the-loop operating models that balance automation, judgment, risk management, and control.
• Leverage AI-enabled tools to accelerate research, analysis, design, and delivery while maintaining analytical rigor.
• Maintain deep awareness of emerging AI, GenAI, automation, and enterprise technology capabilities and their practical business applications.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across Operations, Sales, Trading, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Control functions.
• Bridge business, operational, and technology perspectives to drive enterprise-wide alignment and decision-making.
• Develop executive-quality narratives, business cases, operating model designs, and steering committee materials.
• Influence outcomes across matrixed organizations without direct authority, building consensus and removing execution barriers.
• Lead governance forums, working groups, and steering committees to drive decisions and maintain transformation momentum.
• Establish reusable methodologies, frameworks, playbooks, and accelerators that scale team effectiveness.
• Drive sustainable adoption through change management, enablement, and capability transfer to business stakeholders.
• Define and uphold the standard for world-class transformation, operating model design, and product-led delivery within the organization.

Skills

Management consulting

Transformation strategy

Operating model design

Product management

Business architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Agile delivery

User-centered design

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance/Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

PowerPoint

Visio

Tableau

Power BI

Figma

Miro

Job description

Goldman Sachs is seeking an Associate for the Global Banking & Markets Operations Transformation Office in Dallas. You will lead enterprise-scale initiatives, shape future-state operating models, and translate strategy into actionable product roadmaps.

You will work with Operations, Sales, Trading, Engineering, and UX teams to deliver scalable, user-centric solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.