Growth Lead Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Goldman Sachs Alternatives

Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the primary investing area within Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), we deliver investment and advisory services for the world’s leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals, drawing from our deeply connected global network and tailored expert insights, across every region and market—overseeing approximately $3.6 trillion in assets under supervision worldwide as of December 31, 2025. Driven by a passion for our clients’ performance, we seek to build long-term relationships based on conviction, sustainable outcomes, and shared success over time.

Growth Equity Investing

Goldman Sachs Asset Management invests in the full spectrum of alternatives, including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure. Since 2003 the Growth Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management comprising more than 65 individuals has invested over $16 billion in companies led by visionary founders and CEOs. We focus exclusively on investments in growth stage and technology-driven companies spanning multiple industries, including enterprise technology, financial technology and healthcare.

Responsibilities

Associates in Growth Equity Investing will be integrally involved with all aspects of the investment cycle including:

• Sourcing, identifying and evaluating attractive investment themes and opportunities;
• Building relationships with management teams, senior advisors and external industry experts;
• Performing due diligence;
• Financing and closing investments as well as developing, monitoring and implementing value creation strategies at our existing portfolio companies.

We are looking for a team member who will thrive in a lean organization, operating in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment.

Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification and have an excellent academic and professional record.
• Between 2-4 years of experience at a leading investment bank, strategy consulting firm and/or an investment role, ideally within the technology sector.
• We are looking for highly motivated, well-rounded, team players who are passionate about investing and want to build a long-term career at Goldman Sachs.

Skills & Competencies

• Passionate and intellectually curious about technology and growth equity investing. Eager to learn about new concepts and committed to ongoing personal development.
• Entrepreneurial and tenacious, relentlessly working past obstacles to achieve exceptional outcomes. Consistently taking the initiative to drive progress.
• Strong financial analysis/modelling experience with robust analytical/problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interact and build relationships with a wide range of people, work effectively under pressure and keen to take on responsibility.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.

Opportunity Overview

CORPORATE TITLE Associate

OFFICE LOCATION(S) San Francisco

JOB FUNCTION Investing & Portfolio Management - Private

DIVISION Asset & Wealth Management

SALARY RANGE USD 150,000 - 225,000