Executive Office, Speaker & Conference Strategy, Vice President, New York

Goldman Sachs•New York, NY

1d•$125,000 - $250,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Executive Office plays an integral role in setting and advancing Goldman Sachs' corporate strategy, and in preserving the firm's distinctive culture. We are responsible for safeguarding the firm's relationship with alumni, clients, shareholders, policy makers, and the broader public, while ensuring that our own people remain informed about the firm's evolving priorities. We also partner with the businesses to source high-impact opportunities in line with the firm's social and sustainability agendas. Our Executive Office is a group of teams that shapes corporate strategy, culture, and brand. Whether communicating with employees, managing our brand, or articulating our strategy to investors and analysts, our work directly impacts how the firm is viewed by a variety of crucial stakeholders. You'll be part of a team of excellent communicators who are comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. The Office of the Chairman oversees internal and external key strategic initiatives across the firm, including Goldman Sachs’ communications and investor, government, community and client engagement. Within the Office of the Chairman, the Client Strategy Group works closely with Goldman Sachs executives to prioritize and organize their interactions in support of these initiatives. Conferences and events are a key opportunity to enhance the firm’s brand and continue to position Goldman Sachs as a thought leader and convener. A core part of our conference and event strategy is to select speakers whose content can help align with our business strategy and our own thought leadership priorities. Due to the dynamic and evolving nature of our business, the strategy and execution for sourcing content and speakers remains necessarily fluid and requires constant research and relationship management, both internally and externally.

Requirements

Excellent communication skills
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
Experience in speaker research
Experience in profile management
Experience in workflow automation
Experience in reporting
Experience in conference analysis
Experience in operational efficiency initiatives
Experience in leveraging emerging technologies
Experience in conference strategy
Experience in external speaker engagement
Experience in platform management
Experience in compiling and centralizing lists of internal and external speakers
Experience in building speaker lists
Experience in developing guidelines for speaker sourcing
Experience in engaging with external speakers bureaus and agencies
Experience in managing contracts, legal/compliance clearance, logistics and payments with external speakers
Experience in optimizing speaker engagement
Experience in maximizing reach and impact of speaker messages and content
Experience in coordinating ancillary sessions/events
Experience in repurposing content
Experience in data capture, dashboards, and reporting
Experience in acting as Executive Office representative on content and speakers
Experience in defining conference and speaker objectives and priorities
Experience in developing strong relationships with speakers or their representation
Experience in ensuring speaker diversity
Experience in recommending speakers
Experience in providing feedback on speakers
Experience in performing due diligence and vetting speakers
Experience in obtaining approvals for external speakers
Experience in creating, advising on, and reviewing session themes, content, and speaker questions
Experience in reviewing conference and speaker decks
Experience in creating and maintaining operational documentation, resource libraries, standards, reference materials, internal websites, and knowledge repositories
Experience in maintaining speaker engagement resources, Conference resource pages, SEEH resource hubs, and process documentation.
Experience as Executive Office liaison with speaker bureaus / agents / representatives / publishers
Experience working with speaker bureaus to identify speakers, check availability, negotiate fees
Experience maximizing utilization of speakers
Experience executing book buys for select speakers
Experience confirming 'Thank You' emails are sent to speakers
Experience partnering with Events Management Group and Self-Managed event stakeholders on logistics
Experience confirming platform and A/V setup
Experience creating / reviewing / distributing briefing documents for speakers and moderators
Experience providing oversight on room reservations
Experience ensuring speakers have proper introductions and seamless interactions
Experience reviewing external speaker engagement requests via the Speaker and Event Engagement Hub
Experience answering questions from Approver Groups regarding PERMIT roles, specific speakers, and SES troubleshooting
Experience providing input and oversight on recommended system enhancements
Experience managing development and integration of approval process for GS speakers

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI-enabled solutions
Experience with SEEH, Salesforce

Responsibilities

Prioritize conferences and events using a tiered framework
Assist internal teams in crafting an overall objective and scope for their conferences (prioritizing flagship engagements)
Advise on content development and speaker opportunities
Coordinate leadership participation
Maintain tracking and data strategy for internal and external conferences
Coordinate cross-divisional events on similar topics for similar audiences
Partner with firmwide host teams, stakeholders Events team globally to embed culture and history into select conferences and events
Evaluate and implement AI-enabled solutions to support speaker research, profile management, workflow automation, reporting, conference analysis, and operational efficiency initiatives.
Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies across conference strategy, external speaker engagement, and platform management activities.
Sourcing – Compile and centralize lists of internal and external speakers and their areas of expertise and build on these lists, seeking to build an ever-growing roster of diverse talent.
Engagement - Develop a consistent set of guidelines around all aspects of this process, including sourcing the right speaker(s) for specific events, engaging with external speakers bureaus and agencies (as needed), and managing contracts, legal/compliance clearance, logistics and payments with external speakers.
Optimization - Seek to identify ways to optimize our engagement with speakers and maximize the reach and impact of their messages and content, for example coordinating additional, ancillary sessions/events for select groups, repurposing content for a variety of internal and external channels, etc.
Data Management - work with EO Engineering on SEEH, Salesforce, and GS Speakers Bureau enhancing data capture, dashboards, and reporting.
Act as Executive Office representative / voice on content and speakers for all top-tier conferences, signature events (flagship conferences) and special events (10KSB events, etc.)
Partner with businesses and host teams to define conference and speaker objectives and priorities for client experience
Research relevant and engaging speakers
Develop strong relationships with speakers directly or with their exclusive representation (agency)
Ensure speakers are drawn from various industries, regions and backgrounds
Recommend speakers / create speaker lists for internal groups
Provide feedback on speakers submitted by internal groups
Confirm the same speakers are not utilized repeatedly
Perform due diligence, vet speakers with other groups
Obtain approvals / post stakeholders on various teams for external speakers
Create, advise on and review session themes, content, speaker questions, etc.
Review conference and speaker decks
Create and maintain operational documentation, resource libraries, standards, reference materials, internal websites, and knowledge repositories supporting conference and speaker management activities.
Maintain speaker engagement resources, Conference resource pages, SEEH resource hubs, and process documentation.
Executive Office liaison with speaker bureaus / agents / representatives / publishers
Work with speaker bureaus to identify speakers, check availability, negotiate fees, etc. or work directly with the speaker
Look for opportunities to maximize utilization of speakers (e.g. additional roundtable, meet and greet, Talks at GS)
Execute book buys for select speakers
Confirm a ‘Thank You’ email goes to the speaker (same day as engagement preferred)
Partner with Events Management Group and Self-Managed event stakeholders on logistics to ensure positive speaker experience
Travel, hotel, car service, parking, etc.
Confirm platform and A/V setup
Create / review / distribute briefing documents for speakers and moderators
Provide oversight on room reservations
Ensure each speaker has a proper introduction from a senior GS Host and seamless interactions throughout their engagement
Approvals: Review all external speaker engagement requests submitted via the Speaker and Event Engagement Hub on behalf of the Executive Office and submit action via eTask
Answer any questions from Approver Groups (e.g. Media Relations, Government Affairs, Business Intelligence Group) regarding PERMIT roles, specific speakers, and SES troubleshooting
Ongoing System Enhancements
Provide input and oversight on recommended enhancements to improve the user experience and approval process for external speakers
Manage development and integration of approval process for GS speakers speaking internally and externally (Speakers Bureau)
Approvals: Review all external speaker engagement requests submitted via the Speaker and Event Engagement Hub on behalf of the Executive Office and submit action via eTask
Answer any questions from Approver Groups (e.g. Media Relations, Government Affairs, Business Intelligence Group) regarding PERMIT roles, specific speakers, and SES troubleshooting
Ongoing System Enhancements
Provide input and oversight on recommended enhancements to improve the user experience and approval process for external speakers
Manage development and integration of approval process for GS speakers speaking internally and externally (Speakers Bureau)