Asset & Wealth Management, Wealth Product Design, Designer, Vice President - New York

YOUR IMPACT

We are seeking a Vice President, Design Systems to join the Wealth Management Product Design team. In this role, you will be the hands-on architect of the Wealth Management component library, focusing on the creation and scaling of a specialized "business-layer" library.

You will be responsible for building high-fidelity, reusable UI components that address the unique complexities of the Wealth Management business. Following a consistent architecture, you will leverage the firm-wide OneGS UI Toolkit (UITK) as your foundation, ensuring that all business-specific components maintain brand alignment while delivering the specialized functionality our users require.

As a bridge between design and engineering, you will not only create and maintain these assets but also document component behavior and design tokens to ensure seamless implementation. You will be a key advocate for system adoption, driving efficiency and consistency across all Wealth Management digital products. Beyond technical execution, you will play a vital role in elevating the team's collective craft by educating designers on the correct application of components, sharing emerging patterns, and advocating for standardized design solutions. Furthermore, you will explore and leverage AI-driven workflows to accelerate component generation, automate documentation, and optimize the design-to-code pipeline.

OUR IMPACT

Wealth Management

Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees. Our consumer business provides digital solutions for customers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and customers, and leading-edge technology, data and design.

Product Design

The Wealth Management Design team is responsible for delivering tools and products, empowering clients and customers around the world to reach their financial goals. We are looking for designers who can dive into complex problems delivering intuitive and impactful products, while focusing on cultivating a culture of collaboration, exploration, and growth

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Hands-on Component Architecture: Lead the end-to-end design and technical specification of business-specific UI components in Figma, ensuring they are modular, accessible, and built upon OneGS UITK standards.
• Library Maintenance & Scaling: Own the maintenance of the Wealth Management Design System (WMDS) library, including the management of design tokens, versioning, and comprehensive documentation of component behavior.
• Design Education & Advocacy: Act as a subject matter expert to educate the broader design team on system best practices. Facilitate sessions to share new patterns and advocate for the adoption of standardized design solutions to reduce design debt.
• AI Integration: Proactively identify opportunities to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the design system workflow-such as using LLMs for automated documentation, AI-assisted variant generation, or streamlining handoff processes.
• Engineering Partnership: Collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure Figma specifications are accurately translated into high-quality code, maintaining a high bar for interaction design and performance.
• Ensure the design system meets accessibility (WCAG 2.1+), performance, and usability standards.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices and emerging technologies into the system.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a related field.
• Experience: 7+ years of industry experience in product design, with a significant focus on building and maintaining design systems at scale within complex corporate environments.
• Technical Mastery: Expert-level proficiency in Figma (advanced variables, auto-layout, and library management). A strong understanding of front-end development (React/CSS) is essential for effective collaboration with UITK engineers.
• Systemic Thinking: Proven ability to distill complex financial workflows into reusable, modular components that balance business-specific flexibility with firm-wide consistency.
• AI Literacy: Familiarity with AI tools and their application in design workflows (e.g., automated documentation, prompt engineering for UI generation, or AI-driven accessibility testing).
• Communication & Leadership: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a passion for mentoring others and advocating for the value of systematic design.

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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Salary Range

The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $115000-$270000. 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.