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Goldman Sachs & Company Engineering- Web Platform - Program Management - Vice President - New York in New York, New York
Goldman Sachs' design system is the firm's digital experience framework that enables digital product teams to deliver a cohesive user experience across all products and services. It's a collection of reusable components, guided by clear standards, that can be assembled together to build any number of applications. The design system encompasses a number of toolkits, including toolkits for front-end and mobile developers, as well as set of components and templates for the CMS content authors.
RESPONSIBILITIES
As the Engineering Program Manager for the design system, you will:
- Oversee the strategy of the design system across all major Goldman Sachs divisions
- Be responsible for the ongoing co-ordination, governance, reporting, dependency management, and resourcing across engineering, marketing and the client divisions
- Communicate with senior stakeholders to report on progress, highlights, lowlights and risks
- Work with engineering leads to define project scopes and ensure necessary resourcing, while prioritizing between different product needs
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years relevant experience, preferably in a program / product management function
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, written and oral; confident in interaction with senior stakeholders
- Project management skills including program scope definition; issues, challenges, risks definition; status reporting
- A proven track record of scoping and driving delivery of programs with results delivered in a cross functional team setting, on time and on budget
- Extensive leadership experience demonstrated through empowerment, situational awareness, increasing transparency and conflict resolution on a large-scale program
- Ability to engage with and influence stakeholders outside their direct control
- Strategic thinker able to identify cross functional issues, provide innovative solutions, and communicate the implications of solutions across existing processes, systems and teams, e.g. costs, risk, service
- Experience in managing technical projects, familiarity with high level web development trends
- Ability to work on multiple project simultaneously in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Self-motivated and self-managed with a high degree of analytical ability, innovation and intellectual curiosity
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working with / on large-scale design systems
- Experience developing products using customer and design-centric practices
- Scripting or programing skills for report automation and data extraction related to program management
- Knowledge and/or experience of OKR frameworks and how they are used in the delivery of technology products
- 5+ years of hands-on Agile program leadership experience (at a bank, in the financial industry or in a technology startup) in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed, etc.)
- Experience with project management tools such as JIRA or equivalent
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $115000-$250000. 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.
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Minimum Salary: 115000.00 Maximum Salary: 250000.00 Salary Unit: Yearly