Asset & Wealth Management Vice President - Multi-Asset Solutions: Private Investing Research

Asset & Wealth Management

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world's leading asset managers with over $2 trillion in assets under supervision, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions, and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As a 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.

Multi-Asset Solutions

Multi Asset Solutions (MAS) is a multi-asset class investing group that sits within Asset & Wealth Management (AWM) at Goldman Sachs. It designs and develops comprehensive investment management solutions customized to meet the investment objectives for clients. These solutions bring together state-of-the-art techniques for multi-asset portfolio design and implementation and reflect proprietary research and analytics conducted by the MAS team. With investment professionals across the globe, MAS has invested or advised on multi-asset class mandates for some of the world’s leading corporations, sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, governments, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, family offices, RIAs and other wealth advisors

Role Overview

The successful candidate would become a member of the research team within MAS, focusing on the intersection of public and private markets, requiring a versatile investment professional who can seamlessly navigate across public and private asset classes. The candidate would be responsible for driving the team’s investment agenda by conducting thematic, cross-asset research and executing deep, dynamic, bottom-up fundamental analysis of private market opportunities.

This role is highly analytical and detail-oriented, with emphasis on ability to develop rigorous viewpoint on private market dynamics, understand macro transmission mechanisms, and formulate critical investment questions that protect and grow client portfolios.

Core Responsibilities

• Thematic & Cross-Asset Research: Proactively identify, evaluate, and monitor structural macroeconomic themes and industry-specific trends. Formulate original investment theses detailing how these forces will impact public and private market assets.
• Bottom-Up Private Investment Research: Lead rigorous fundamental research on private market thematic opportunities. Design and execute detailed underwriting processes, construct sophisticated financial models, perform sensitive valuation analyses, and pressure-test operating assumptions.
• Dynamic & Tactical Asset Allocation: Collaborate with senior portfolio managers to design and execute tactical investment strategies that dynamically shift capital between public and private instruments based on relative value, liquidity, and market regimes.
• Critical Underwriting & Thesis Generation: Develop and articulate independent, high-conviction investment views. Identify and formulate the pivotal key investment questions and risk parameters for every transaction or theme.
• Quantitative Analysis & Modeling: Build, backtest, and deploy quantitative tools and models to analyze risk-return profiles, scenario outcomes, portfolio exposures, and performance attribution.
• Stakeholder & Committee Communication: Synthesize complex analytical findings into clear, institutional-grade research memos and presentations. Present actionable recommendations directly to the Investment Committee and engage with institutional clients regarding market perspectives.

Basic Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a highly quantitative discipline. Advanced degree or CFA/CAIA designation preferred.
• Professional Experience: 7+ years of relevant investment experience (e.g., private equity, buy-side or sell-side investment research, investment banking, or multi-asset portfolio management).
• Private Market Expertise: A sophisticated, proven understanding of private market structures, asset classes (private equity, venture growth, private credit, or real assets), and industry dynamics. The candidate must demonstrate an ability to formulate independent, critical investment views.
• Advanced Analytical & Quantitative Skills: Exceptional financial modeling proficiency. Demonstrated capability to work with large datasets and utilize quantitative tools to evaluate risk and return profiles. Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Python.

• Communication: Superior written and oral communication skills, with a proven ability to distill complex, multi-layered financial concepts into clear, concise, and persuasive investment recommendations. Ability to communicate investment strategies and rationales to audiences of varying levels of sophistication

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