Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Our Human Capital Management division recruits, develops, and rewards the people of Goldman Sachs. We design and implement strategies, processes, and technologies that help our people advance professionally, drive productivity, and support the firm and our clients in achieving superior results. We seek individuals with strong problem-solving and analytical skills, innovative thinking, and intellectual curiosity who want to make an impact on the success of our most valuable asset, our people.

The Talent Development Associate will play a central role in designing, managing, and delivering high-impact development programs that help employees build skills, capabilities, and experiences needed to grow and perform across the firm. This role partners closely with Talent, HCM leadership, divisional stakeholders, external vendors, and program participants to translate firm and talent priorities into practical, differentiated learning experiences.

The position sits at the intersection of people development strategy, content design, stakeholder engagement, communications, measurement, and program execution. It requires strong project management, clear communication, sound judgment, and the ability to move seamlessly between strategic planning and detailed delivery.

The Associate will help shape development experiences supporting employees at key career moments, including leadership development, skill-building programs, coaching, peer learning, speaker-led sessions, and firmwide talent initiatives.

Key Responsibilities
- Support the design and evolution of firmwide development experiences to build critical skills and leadership capabilities
- Translate firm priorities and stakeholder input into clear program objectives, learning journeys, and deliverables
- Develop strategy materials, agendas, speaker briefs, session objectives, pre-read materials, toolkits, communications, and discussion guides
- Partner with Talent colleagues, business leaders, alumni, and external partners to ensure content relevance and practicality
- Continuously refine programming based on feedback, business priorities, and lessons learned
- Manage end-to-end program execution including participant selection, launch, engagement, sessions, coaching, follow-up, and closeout
- Build and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, trackers, and decision logs across multiple workstreams
- Coordinate complex logistics across regions including travel, venues, materials, and day-of delivery
- Prepare and facilitate briefings, sessions, calls, panels, and stakeholder updates
- Anticipate risks and dependencies, escalate as needed, and keep stakeholders aligned
- Serve as a trusted coordination point across key stakeholder groups
- Draft polished communications for participants, managers, leaders, speakers, and partners
- Prepare stakeholder materials such as strategy decks, briefing notes, talking points, and summaries
- Support leader and speaker engagement including outreach, session framing, and briefing preparation
- Navigate sensitive stakeholder dynamics with discretion and sound judgment
- Design and analyze surveys to assess program needs, experience, learning outcomes, and impact
- Translate feedback and data into insights, recommendations, and program improvements
- Maintain organized program records, data sources, and impact trackers
- Use insights from prior cohorts to strengthen design, experience, engagement, and reporting

Experience
Approximately 5-6 years of experience in talent development, leadership development, learning, human capital strategy, program management, or a related field.

About you
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage detailed workplans, competing priorities, and multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of drafting polished materials for diverse audiences
- Comfortable engaging with leaders, managers, participants, and cross-functional partners, including handling sensitive or high-visibility interactions professionally and discreetly
- Ability to synthesize complex inputs, feedback, and data into clear insights, recommendations, and practical actions
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality work across strategy, content, logistics, and communications

Key Skills & Competencies
- Program Management: Brings structure, rigor, and follow-through to complex, multi-workstream initiatives
- Content Design: Develops clear, practical learning materials, session objectives, agendas, toolkits, and communications for varied employee audiences
- Stakeholder Management: Builds trust and alignment across HCM, leaders, managers, cross-functional partners, vendors, and business stakeholders
- Executive Communication: Writes with clarity, polish, and audience awareness across emails, decks, talking points, and briefing materials
- Analytical Judgment: Uses feedback, data, and business context to identify insights and improve programming
- Discretion & Professionalism: Handles leader engagement, participant information, and sensitive program decisions with care
- Agility: Moves comfortably between strategic thinking and detailed execution, adapting quickly as priorities evolve

Qualifications
Relevant experience and demonstrated competencies as outlined above. Formal qualifications are not explicitly required but a background in related fields is advantageous.