Real Estate Strategy

Goldman Sachs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs in New York, NY, seeks the Americas Head of Workplace Planning (VP) to guide workplace strategy and planning across the Americas. You will partner with senior leaders, shape occupancy, and optimize real estate investments while driving data-informed decisions for cost efficiency and experience.

You will lead a team delivering insights, governance, and cross-functional collaboration across space, technology, security, and facilities to support the firm’s evolving workplace needs.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in workplace strategy or a related field.
• Proven ability to advise senior executives and influence complex decisions.
• Strong financial acumen with ability to develop business cases and assess impacts.
• Excellent presentation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
• Demonstrated leadership of cross-functional teams in a complex org.
• Data-driven mindset with analytics to solve business problems.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to understand workplace challenges, priorities, growth plans, and needs.
• Advise on solutions balancing employee experience, productivity, collaboration, compliance, and cost.
• Lead strategic workplace discussions, present options and financial implications to executives.
• Facilitate decisions on investments, space allocations, and portfolio optimization.
• Serve as trusted advisor on trends, benchmarking, and best practices for outcomes.
• Lead and develop a team of workplace planning professionals for occupancy planning and analytics.
• Drive integrated planning across space, technology, security, and experience.
• Establish governance for requests with scope, schedule, and budget alignment.
• Coordinate with project management, engineering, security, facilities, hospitality, and IT teams.

Skills

Senior stakeholder management

Strategic workplace planning

Data-driven decision making

Financial analysis

Executive communication

Team leadership

Job description

Corporate and Workplace Solutions, Americas Head of Workplace Planning, Vice President, New York City location_on New York, NY, United States

CORPORATE AND WORKPLACE SOLUTIONS

Consisting of Corporate Services and Real Estate (CSRE) and the Office of Global Security (OGS), our teams drive productivity and enable the firm’s flow of business while ensuring its safety and security. CSRE acquires, develops and manages the firm’s global real estate portfolio and delivers innovative market development, document management and hospitality related services to internal partners in the firm. CSRE’s vision is to provide the world’s best workplace to the people of Goldman Sachs. OGS’s mission is to protect the firm's people, assets, and reputation and in doing so provides people protection, physical security, fire safety and crisis management. We look for achievement-oriented, creative individuals who perform at their best in a diverse team environment and are motivated by tangible results.

Americas Head of Workplace Planning (VP)

The Americas Head of Workplace Planning serves as a strategic advisor to senior business leaders, helping shape workplace solutions that enhance employee experience, support business objectives, optimize occupancy costs, and maximize the value of the firm's real estate investments. The role combines workplace strategy, client engagement, data analytics, and financial planning to drive informed portfolio decisions across the Americas. This role requires a thoughtful perspective on how the workplace continues to evolve to support changing business needs, coupled with a disciplined, data-driven approach to testing ideas, measuring outcomes, and scaling successful solutions across the portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Senior Client Engagement & Workplace Strategy

• Partner directly with senior leaders across the firm to understand workplace challenges, business priorities, growth plans, and organizational needs.
• Advise clients on workplace solutions that balance employee experience, productivity, collaboration, compliance, and cost efficiency.
• Lead strategic workplace discussions, presenting options, tradeoffs, recommendations, and financial implications to executives and stakeholders.
• Facilitate decision-making on workplace investments, space allocations, portfolio optimization opportunities, and future workplace models.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on workplace trends, benchmarking, and emerging practices that can improve business outcomes.
• Lead and develop a team of workplace planning professionals responsible for occupancy planning, workplace strategy, and portfolio analytics.
• Drive an integrated planning approach across space, technology, security, and workplace experience functions.
• Establish governance processes for workplace requests, ensuring alignment on scope, schedule, budget, and strategic objectives.
• Coordinate with project management, engineering, security, facilities, hospitality, and technology teams to deliver workplace solutions effectively.

Data & Insights

• Leverage workplace data, utilization metrics, and portfolio analytics to identify opportunities and inform decision-making.
• Develop meaningful reporting that helps clients understand workplace performance, costs, and utilization trends.
• Translate complex workplace and occupancy data into actionable business recommendations.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities to improve space efficiency while maintaining an exceptional workplace experience.
• Develop business cases and evaluate workplace initiatives through both employee experience and financial lenses.
• Quantify the impact of workplace decisions on occupancy costs, capital investments, utilization, and long-term portfolio strategy.
• Partner with Finance, Corporate Real Estate, and business leaders to prioritize investments and optimize real estate performance.
• Support stay-vs-go analyses, location strategies, footprint optimization initiatives, and major workplace transformations.
• Oversee investment prioritization, and long-range capital and occupancy strategies.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in workplace strategy, corporate real estate, occupancy planning, architecture, workplace consulting, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success advising senior executives and influencing complex business decisions.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to develop business cases and communicate economic impacts of workplace decisions.
• Excellent presentation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
• Proven ability to lead teams and drive cross-functional initiatives in a complex organization.
• Data-driven mindset with experience leveraging analytics to solve business problems.
• Strong problem-solving, negotiation, and change management capabilities.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with execution in a fast-paced environment.
  

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 at GS.com/careers.

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Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $100000-$265000. 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 .

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

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 Services

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).

Child Care & Family Care

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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