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Wealth Management Associate roles sit at the intersection of finance and client advisory work, making them a strong fit for F-1 OPT students with degrees in finance, economics, or business. Most positions qualify as specialty occupations, supporting H-1B visa sponsorship. OPT gives you 12 months of authorized work, with a 24-month STEM extension available if your degree qualifies.
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Alternative Capital Markets is seeking an Associate to join their team in New York City.
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.
Alternative Capital Markets (ACM)
Alternative Capital Markets is a global team with 80+ alternative investment professionals across eight offices (New York, Albany, Dallas, London, Zurich, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shenzhen), responsible for over $120B+ in AUS, serving institutions, foundations, family offices, high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals. ACM is the architect of the Wealth Alternatives platform including private equity, growth / venture capital, private credit, private real estate, hedge funds, co-investments and impact private investing. These offerings include AM Private, XIG, and third-party external investment strategies, as well as differentiated private company access via both internal and external referrals. ACM’s full-service capital markets business covers the entire lifecycle of an alternative investment, from investment sourcing to client solutions, as well as a new discretionary offering enabling programmatic platform access, an in-house liquidity platform for clients (qualified matching service, or QMS), and dedicated platform management and strategy.
HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
- Help establish and manage GS ACM relationships with external managers, with a particular focus on private equity, including new product development and coordination of external sales professionals, as well as source, diligence and originate new alternative investment offerings to meet client demand and address current market opportunities
- Serve as an alternative investment strategist, helping establish GS Wealth house view on current private market trends / opportunities and providing insight to clients and internal GS constituents
- Help provide input on ACM sales strategy across client segments, advising on growth strategies for new offerings / solutions, and develop segment specific fundraising strategies
- Help lead marketing of alternative investment offerings for buyout across GS client segments and regions including managing overall fund raising activity, developing marketing collateral / strategy pitch and engaging advisors / clients by organizing road shows / events / campaigns
- Lead client portfolio reviews, including alternative portfolio analysis / implementation guidance, as well as provide performance attribution and fund commentary
- Help drive education of alternative investment themes and portfolio implementation for all GS client segments and regions by coordinating across ACM, GS CIO, GS investment teams and external managers to provide best-in-class thought leadership
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Bachelors Degree or Higher
- Deep understanding of financial markets and investment instruments
- 3+ year’s experience in wealth management, asset management, investment banking, or private equity
- Strong quantitative, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Team player, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Sophisticated and tactful client manager who can effectively manage the entire investor lifecycle
- Strong ability to multi-task, with an ability to manage multiple projects with different deadlines
- Self-starter, with ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented environment and across group functions
- Solid work ethic, motivation level, and strong attention to detail
- SIE, Series 7, and Series 63 (must be obtained within 3 months)
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. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. : https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2026. All rights reserved.
Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $85000-$160000. 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.
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)
New York
JOB FUNCTION
Client Relationship Management
DIVISION
Asset & Wealth Management
SALARY RANGE
USD 85,000 - 160,000
YOUR IMPACT
Alternative Capital Markets is seeking an Associate to join their team in New York City.
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.
Alternative Capital Markets (ACM)
Alternative Capital Markets is a global team with 80+ alternative investment professionals across eight offices (New York, Albany, Dallas, London, Zurich, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shenzhen), responsible for over $120B+ in AUS, serving institutions, foundations, family offices, high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals. ACM is the architect of the Wealth Alternatives platform including private equity, growth / venture capital, private credit, private real estate, hedge funds, co-investments and impact private investing. These offerings include AM Private, XIG, and third-party external investment strategies, as well as differentiated private company access via both internal and external referrals. ACM’s full-service capital markets business covers the entire lifecycle of an alternative investment, from investment sourcing to client solutions, as well as a new discretionary offering enabling programmatic platform access, an in-house liquidity platform for clients (qualified matching service, or QMS), and dedicated platform management and strategy.
HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
- Help establish and manage GS ACM relationships with external managers, with a particular focus on private equity, including new product development and coordination of external sales professionals, as well as source, diligence and originate new alternative investment offerings to meet client demand and address current market opportunities
- Serve as an alternative investment strategist, helping establish GS Wealth house view on current private market trends / opportunities and providing insight to clients and internal GS constituents
- Help provide input on ACM sales strategy across client segments, advising on growth strategies for new offerings / solutions, and develop segment specific fundraising strategies
- Help lead marketing of alternative investment offerings for buyout across GS client segments and regions including managing overall fund raising activity, developing marketing collateral / strategy pitch and engaging advisors / clients by organizing road shows / events / campaigns
- Lead client portfolio reviews, including alternative portfolio analysis / implementation guidance, as well as provide performance attribution and fund commentary
- Help drive education of alternative investment themes and portfolio implementation for all GS client segments and regions by coordinating across ACM, GS CIO, GS investment teams and external managers to provide best-in-class thought leadership
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Bachelors Degree or Higher
- Deep understanding of financial markets and investment instruments
- 3+ year’s experience in wealth management, asset management, investment banking, or private equity
- Strong quantitative, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Team player, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Sophisticated and tactful client manager who can effectively manage the entire investor lifecycle
- Strong ability to multi-task, with an ability to manage multiple projects with different deadlines
- Self-starter, with ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented environment and across group functions
- Solid work ethic, motivation level, and strong attention to detail
- SIE, Series 7, and Series 63 (must be obtained within 3 months)
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. about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. : https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html
© The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2026. All rights reserved.
Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $85000-$160000. 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.
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)
New York
JOB FUNCTION
Client Relationship Management
DIVISION
Asset & Wealth Management
SALARY RANGE
USD 85,000 - 160,000
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Wealth Management Associate
Target firms with a history of H-1B sponsorship
Large wirehouses and regional broker-dealers file H-1B visa petitions regularly. Search DOL disclosure data to verify which firms have sponsored Wealth Management Associates before. Past sponsorship is the strongest signal a firm will do it again.
Pursue relevant licenses during OPT
The Series 7 and Series 66 licenses signal long-term commitment to a hiring manager. Firms investing in your licensing are far more likely to sponsor your visa. Start studying before your job search ends so you can mention active progress in interviews.
Frame your OPT timeline proactively
Tell hiring managers your OPT end date and H-1B eligibility upfront. Firms plan sponsorship budgets months in advance. Giving them a clear runway reduces hesitation and positions you as organized rather than a last-minute compliance problem.
Prioritize client-facing roles at growth-stage firms
Smaller RIAs expanding their client base often sponsor talent they've trained internally. A client-facing associate who understands the firm's book of business is harder to replace than an external hire, which strengthens your sponsorship case considerably.
Connect your degree field to the role explicitly
H-1B sponsorship for Wealth Management Associates requires demonstrating specialty occupation status. A finance or economics degree maps directly. If your degree is adjacent, prepare a clear written argument linking your coursework to the job's core responsibilities.
Ask about sponsorship during the second interview, not the first
Raising visa sponsorship in a first interview can signal risk before you've established value. Once a hiring manager expresses genuine interest, asking about their sponsorship process reads as practical planning rather than a red flag.
Wealth Management Associate OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Wealth Management Associate roles typically qualify for OPT work authorization?
Yes. Wealth Management Associate positions generally qualify as specialty occupations because they require at least a bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, or a related field. This makes them eligible for F-1 OPT work authorization. If your degree is in a STEM-designated field such as financial engineering or applied mathematics, you may also qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension.
How do I find Wealth Management Associate jobs that sponsor OPT students?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT students and filters roles by sponsorship history and visa compatibility. Searching there surfaces Wealth Management Associate positions at firms that have actively sponsored international candidates, saving you from applying to roles where sponsorship was never a realistic option.
Can I work as a Wealth Management Associate under STEM OPT extension?
You can if your underlying degree qualifies for the STEM OPT extension. Finance degrees from programs with an STEM-designated CIP code are increasingly common, but not universal. Check your program's CIP code against the official STEM OPT designated degree program list maintained by ICE. If your degree qualifies, the role's specialty occupation status is well-established and supports a valid STEM OPT employment relationship.
What happens to my OPT authorization if I change employers mid-year?
Your OPT work authorization is tied to your individual EAD card, not to a specific employer. You can change to a new Wealth Management Associate role without filing new paperwork, provided the new job is in a field directly related to your degree. Report the employer change to your DSO within 10 days so they can update your SEVIS record and keep your status current.
Which degree backgrounds support H-1B sponsorship for Wealth Management Associates?
Finance, economics, accounting, and business administration degrees are the most straightforward. Mathematical fields like statistics or applied mathematics also map well given the quantitative analysis these roles involve. Degrees in fields with a looser connection to wealth management, such as general liberal arts, require a more detailed specialty occupation argument and may face higher scrutiny during the H-1B petition process.