Senior Investment Writer - Alternatives Capital Formation, External Investment Group

About Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the world’s leading asset managers with over $3 trillion in assets under supervision. As the primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors, and individuals.

About ACF

The Alternatives Capital Formation (ACF) business manages capital raising, client servicing and strategy for alternative investments including private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, growth equity, sustainability, secondaries, GP stakes, and hedge funds / liquid alternatives. Within ACF, team members work within investment product verticals and collaborate across strategies to identify portfolio-wide solutions that best meet the needs of clients. They also partner with other teams within ACF, and across the Client Solutions Group (CSG), Private Wealth Management (PWM), and investing teams. Professional development initiatives provide opportunities to enhance expertise across alternative investment products, and to sharpen market knowledge from industry experts investing across the Firm. This specific ACF role sits within the External Investment Group (“XIG”) on the Alternative Insights and Strategy team.

About the Team

The Alternative Insights and Strategy team brings together proprietary data, external data and insights from investment teams across the firm. It translates that information into clear views, portfolio allocation frameworks and client-ready content for alternative investments.

The team works closely with investment teams, portfolio managers, strategists and client-facing professionals across the firm.

Role Description

This Vice President will be a senior writer for the Alternative Insights and Strategy team, responsible for turning investment views, research and data into clear, engaging and credible content. Working primarily with the team's investment strategists, and directly with portfolio managers and other investment professionals as needed, the writer will find the strongest narratives in the team's work and decide how best to structure, package and deliver them for different audiences. This person will also drive written projects from initial concept through final copy, coordinating inputs, reviews and revisions to keep the work on track. The role requires a strong grounding in investment markets and exceptional writing and editorial judgment. Prior alternatives experience is preferred but not required.

Position Responsibilities

• Find the strongest narratives in established investment insights, market views and quantitative findings, whether one overarching story or several distinct themes, and bring them to life
• Write across formats, including thought leadership, market commentary, client communications, presentation copy, digital and social content, and talking points or scripts for media and other appearances
• Partner primarily with investment strategists to understand the intended message, the supporting evidence and what it means for the audience
• Work directly with portfolio managers and other investment professionals as needed to understand their perspectives and represent them accurately
• Structure content around the reader's experience so the argument flows logically, the supporting charts and data reinforce the message and the conclusions land clearly
• Adapt tone, structure and level of detail for institutional, wealth, retail, internal and social audiences without changing the underlying investment conclusions
• Drive written content from initial concept through final copy, coordinating source materials, drafting, reviews, revisions and approvals to keep projects on track
• Partner with marketing, design, digital and compliance teams to make sure written content is accurate, appropriately formatted and ready for use

Qualifications

• 7 or more years of experience writing or editing investment research, thought leadership or other investment content within asset management, wealth management or a related financial-services organization
• Strong grounding in investment markets and a demonstrated ability to engage credibly with investment strategists, portfolio managers and other senior investment professionals
• Demonstrated ability to turn source materials such as presentations, charts, recorded discussions, interviews and partial drafts into polished written content
• Exceptional writing and editorial judgment, including a strong sense of structure, narrative flow and the reader's experience
• Strong command of tone and the ability to write effectively for very different audiences and channels
• Strong project-management skills and a demonstrated ability to move multiple written projects through drafting, review and approval
• Experience working within financial-services compliance and review processes
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA, CFA and/or CAIA helpful but not required

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $135000-$285000. 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.