Asset & Wealth Management, Alternatives Capital Formation, Vintage Strategies - Real Estate, Managing Director/Vice President - New York

Vintage Real Estate Strategy Manager

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the world's leading asset managers with over $3 trillion in assets under supervision. As the 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.

Alternatives Capital Formation (ACF) is part of the Client Solutions Group (CSG) within Asset Management. ACF manages capital raising and strategy for alternative investments including private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, growth equity, sustainability, secondaries, GP stakes, and hedge funds / liquid alternatives. Within ACF, team members work within product verticals and collaborate across strategies to identify portfolio-wide solutions. They also partner with other teams within ACF, and across CSG, investing teams and wealth management teams. Professional development initiatives provide opportunities to enhance expertise across alternative investment products, and to sharpen market knowledge from industry experts investing across the Firm. This specific ACF role sits with the External Investing Group ("XIG"), as part of the Vintage Strategies.

The Vintage Platform is Goldman Sachs Asset Management's dedicated secondary investing platform that sits within the External Investing Group. The Vintage Funds, which provide liquidity solutions to private market limited partner investors and general partner fund managers, represent a flagship of Goldman Sachs' alternatives franchise, with leadership in the secondaries space since 1998. Since inception, the Vintage Funds have raised nine globally diversified secondary funds and four strategy-specific vehicles, having invested over $85bn across more than 775 secondary transactions.

Principal Responsibilities

• Lead client engagement and product management across the full fundraising lifecycle for the Vintage Real Estate strategies, including fund launches, interim closes, final close, and post-close investor engagement.
• Serve as a core commercial partner to the secondaries investment team, collaborating closely on fund strategy, mandate design, vehicle structuring, and positioning to ensure alignment between investment objectives and investor demand.
• Build, expand, and deepen long-term relationships with global institutional investors across pensions, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, endowments, foundations, and consultants, with a focus on repeat capital formation and strategic partnerships.
• Manage a high volume of investor interaction across the investor lifecycle, including due diligence processes, portfolio and performance updates, ongoing investor requests, and ad hoc projects, such as bespoke mandates and tailored liquidity or co-investment structures.
• Own and drive go-to-market execution in partnership with senior stakeholders, including defining target investor segments, shaping fundraising strategy, drafting and refining marketing narratives, tracking fundraising progress versus objectives, and refining strategy based on investor feedback.
• Develop, produce, and continuously refine investor materials across the Vintage Real Estate platform, including marketing presentations, data rooms, performance reporting, update calls, and bespoke analyses; incorporate insights from investor dialogue to enhance clarity, relevance, and effectiveness of materials.
• Coordinate closely with internal stakeholders across the firm, including Legal, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Controllers, Tax, and senior management, to respond efficiently and accurately to inbound investor inquiries and to support fund structuring and execution.
• Oversee completion of due diligence and recurring investor deliverables, including DDQs, RFPs, consultant questionnaires, and custom data requests; manage competing priorities and timelines in a fast-paced, fundraising-driven environment.
• Effectively articulate the Vintage Real Estate and secondaries investment thesis to both internal and external audiences, including how secondaries fit within broader private markets and real estate portfolio construction.
• Act as a key point of contact for internal sales and distribution channels, including private wealth, institutional sales, and third-party distribution, responding to questions from senior stakeholders regarding fund strategy, performance, positioning, and investor demand.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience in Capital Formation, Investor Relations, Client Solutions, Investment Banking, Private Markets Investing, or a closely related role, with demonstrated exposure to private equity, real estate, or alternative investment strategies.
• Strong understanding of private markets products and structures, including fund economics, vehicle design, fundraising mechanics, and the institutional investor due diligence process; experience with secondaries, real estate, or complex structured solutions preferred.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly and credibly articulate investment strategies, performance, and risk considerations to sophisticated internal and external stakeholders.
• Highly developed analytical and problem?solving capabilities, including comfort working with performance data, portfolio analytics, and investment-related materials to support investor discussions and decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to manage high volumes of work in a fast?paced environment, balancing multiple concurrent projects and deadlines while maintaining high standards of quality, accuracy, and responsiveness.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with a proven track record of delivering precise, error?free materials across marketing, due diligence, and investor reporting workflows.
• Collaborative, team?oriented mindset with demonstrated ownership mentality, including the ability to operate independently, proactively identify issues or opportunities, and take on increasing responsibility over time.

Job Info

• Job Identification 158737
• Job Category Vice President
• Posting Date 01/14/2026, 05:54 PM
• Locations New York, NY, United States