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Business Development Associate roles qualify for TN visa sponsorship under the USMCA's Management Consultant category, making them one of the more accessible U.S. professional paths for Canadians and Mexicans. You'll need a qualifying degree and a U.S. employer willing to support the TN filing, which requires no lottery and no cap wait for Canadians.
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As an Associate Regional Business Developer, you will serve as a critical commercial partner to the Vice President (VP) RBD, supporting regional growth efforts through advanced sales execution, opportunity development, and cross‑functional coordination. This role represents a progression from Analyst responsibilities, with increased ownership, judgment, and client exposure, while continuing to operate under the leadership and strategy set by the VP RBD.
Associates help translate regional sales strategy into action—driving pipeline momentum, elevating prospect engagement, and ensuring rigorous follow‑through across opportunities—while developing the skills necessary for future senior commercial leadership.
OUR IMPACT
Wealth Management
Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world 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 consumers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and leading-edge technology, data and design.
Goldman Sachs Ayco
GS Ayco partners with Fortune 1000 companies to design and implement tailored financial planning programs for their workforce—leveraging the 50-year heritage of Ayco and the comprehensive resources of Goldman Sachs to meet the evolving needs of their employees. Ayco believes companies best serve their stakeholders and the greater economy when their employees’ financial lives are clear, understood and in their control. Ayco advisors and technical specialists help clients achieve their personal financial goals through education and guided implementation across seven key financial disciplines, including employee benefit planning.
HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
Commercial & Sales Execution
- Partner closely with the VP RBD to advance regional business development strategy and sales priorities.
- Independently manage defined components of the regional pipeline, including lead development, opportunity progression, and follow‑up activities.
- Support VP-led prospect and client engagements by helping shape messaging, materials, and meeting strategy for senior‑level audiences.
- Participate in selected prospect and client meetings with progressively increasing responsibility.
Opportunity Development & Pipeline Management
- Conduct targeted research to identify corporate prospects and referral opportunities aligned with regional strategy.
- Own end-to-end sales cycle for subset of opportunity set within geographic territory.
- Coordinate inbound and outbound sales activity.
- Play central role in cross-divisional commercial coordination with senior leaders in other Goldman Sachs franchise businesses (i.e., Investment Banking, Transaction Banking, Asset Management, Private Wealth Management).
- Ensure accurate Salesforce records.
- Assist in forecasting and regional performance reporting.
- Support in the planning and execution of regional client events.
Marketing, Proposals & Deliverables
- Coordinate development of sales materials.
- Customize content to prospect needs.
- Support RFP and information-security responses.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with internal teams across Goldman Sachs.
- Serve as coordination point between VP RBD and partners.
Team Development & Leadership
- Provide guidance and mentorship to RBD analysts.
- Contribute to process improvements.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 3–5 years of relevant experience (i.e., institutional sales, relationship management) required.
- Strong PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Salesforce skills preferred.
- Exceptional communication, organization, and judgment.
- Proven ability to engage with and influence C-Suite decisionmakers at large corporate organizations.
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this Chicago, Illinois United States-based position is $70,000 - $160,000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.
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., 2025. All rights reserved.
Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
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)
Boston
JOB FUNCTION
Sales
DIVISION
Asset & Wealth Management
SALARY RANGE
USD 70,000 - 160,000
YOUR IMPACT
As an Associate Regional Business Developer, you will serve as a critical commercial partner to the Vice President (VP) RBD, supporting regional growth efforts through advanced sales execution, opportunity development, and cross‑functional coordination. This role represents a progression from Analyst responsibilities, with increased ownership, judgment, and client exposure, while continuing to operate under the leadership and strategy set by the VP RBD.
Associates help translate regional sales strategy into action—driving pipeline momentum, elevating prospect engagement, and ensuring rigorous follow‑through across opportunities—while developing the skills necessary for future senior commercial leadership.
OUR IMPACT
Wealth Management
Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world 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 consumers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save. Across Wealth Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and leading-edge technology, data and design.
Goldman Sachs Ayco
GS Ayco partners with Fortune 1000 companies to design and implement tailored financial planning programs for their workforce—leveraging the 50-year heritage of Ayco and the comprehensive resources of Goldman Sachs to meet the evolving needs of their employees. Ayco believes companies best serve their stakeholders and the greater economy when their employees’ financial lives are clear, understood and in their control. Ayco advisors and technical specialists help clients achieve their personal financial goals through education and guided implementation across seven key financial disciplines, including employee benefit planning.
HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
Commercial & Sales Execution
- Partner closely with the VP RBD to advance regional business development strategy and sales priorities.
- Independently manage defined components of the regional pipeline, including lead development, opportunity progression, and follow‑up activities.
- Support VP-led prospect and client engagements by helping shape messaging, materials, and meeting strategy for senior‑level audiences.
- Participate in selected prospect and client meetings with progressively increasing responsibility.
Opportunity Development & Pipeline Management
- Conduct targeted research to identify corporate prospects and referral opportunities aligned with regional strategy.
- Own end-to-end sales cycle for subset of opportunity set within geographic territory.
- Coordinate inbound and outbound sales activity.
- Play central role in cross-divisional commercial coordination with senior leaders in other Goldman Sachs franchise businesses (i.e., Investment Banking, Transaction Banking, Asset Management, Private Wealth Management).
- Ensure accurate Salesforce records.
- Assist in forecasting and regional performance reporting.
- Support in the planning and execution of regional client events.
Marketing, Proposals & Deliverables
- Coordinate development of sales materials.
- Customize content to prospect needs.
- Support RFP and information-security responses.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with internal teams across Goldman Sachs.
- Serve as coordination point between VP RBD and partners.
Team Development & Leadership
- Provide guidance and mentorship to RBD analysts.
- Contribute to process improvements.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 3–5 years of relevant experience (i.e., institutional sales, relationship management) required.
- Strong PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Salesforce skills preferred.
- Exceptional communication, organization, and judgment.
- Proven ability to engage with and influence C-Suite decisionmakers at large corporate organizations.
Salary Range
The expected base salary for this Chicago, Illinois United States-based position is $70,000 - $160,000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.
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., 2025. All rights reserved.
Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer female/Minority/Disability/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
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)
Boston
JOB FUNCTION
Sales
DIVISION
Asset & Wealth Management
SALARY RANGE
USD 70,000 - 160,000
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding TN Visa Sponsorship as a Business Development Associate
Frame your credentials around consulting deliverables
TN sponsorship under Management Consultant requires showing advisory or project-based work, not just sales support. Gather transcripts, a degree in business or a related field, and any documentation showing client-facing or strategic deliverables in your past roles.
Target employers with cross-border commercial teams
Companies that already operate in Canada or Mexico are more likely to understand TN visa mechanics and have HR processes in place. Focus your search on employers with U.S.-Mexico or U.S.-Canada trade relationships, where your background translates directly to their business development needs.
Clarify the Management Consultant classification early
Business Development Associate doesn't appear by name in the USMCA occupation list. Confirm with your prospective employer that the role will be structured and titled to fit the Management Consultant category before an offer is extended, not after.
Use Migrate Mate to identify TN-ready employers
Search Migrate Mate to find Business Development Associate roles at employers with active TN visa sponsorship history. This saves time you'd otherwise spend screening job listings that don't support TN filings at all.
Prepare a detailed support letter before the offer stage
The employer support letter is the core document for TN approval. It must describe your specific duties, how the role meets the Management Consultant definition, and your professional qualifications. Draft a template with your prospective employer's HR team before your start date is set.
Understand the Mexican TN cap before accepting an offer
Unlike Canadians, Mexican nationals are subject to a 5,500-per-year TN cap and must apply at a U.S. consulate rather than at the border. Factor consulate appointment availability into your timeline when negotiating a start date with your employer.
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Find Business Development Associate JobsBusiness Development Associate TN Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Business Development Associate role qualify for TN visa status?
It can, but the role must be structured to fit the USMCA's Management Consultant category, since Business Development Associate isn't a listed TN occupation by name. The position needs to involve advisory, analytical, or project-based consulting work. A title like Business Development Consultant or a duties-focused support letter from your employer strengthens the classification argument considerably.
How does the TN visa compare to H-1B for Business Development Associate roles?
The TN visa has no annual lottery and no cap for Canadian citizens, so you can start work as soon as CBP approves your application at the port of entry. The H-1B requires winning a random lottery, a wait until October 1, and employer-paid petition fees. For Canadians and Mexicans who qualify, TN is a faster and more predictable path for business development roles.
What documents does your employer need to support a TN filing for this role?
Your employer must provide a support letter on company letterhead that describes the role's duties, confirms you'll perform Management Consultant-level work, states your anticipated length of employment, and lists your professional qualifications. USCIS or CBP may also request your academic credentials and any professional certifications that support the specialty occupation classification.
Where can you find Business Development Associate jobs that offer TN visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Canadian and Mexican professionals seeking U.S. roles with TN visa sponsorship. Filtering by TN status on Migrate Mate surfaces employers that have already confirmed they support TN filings, so you're not wasting outreach on companies that won't sponsor the visa category your role falls under.
Can you switch employers on a TN visa if you receive a better offer?
Yes, but TN status is employer-specific. You'll need a new TN approval tied to your new employer before you stop working for the current one. Canadians can get approval at the border the same day with a new support letter. Mexican nationals must schedule a consulate appointment, which adds lead time you'll need to plan around when negotiating your start date.
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