Seattle Engineering Chief of Staff - Associate

• Seattle Engineering Chief of Staff - Associate
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Seattle, Washington, United States

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CORPORATE TITLE

Associate

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OFFICE LOCATION(S)

Seattle

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JOB FUNCTION

Business Unit COO

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DIVISION

Engineering Division

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SALARY RANGE

USD 85,000 - 140,000

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Chief of Staff, Seattle Engineering Office

We are seeking a highly organized Chief of Staff to play a pivotal role in enhancing employee experience and operational efficiency in our Seattle office. This position is central to managing critical HR administration, streamlining onboarding processes, fostering seamless cross-departmental collaboration, and supporting engineering divisional priorities. The ideal candidate will be passionate about creating a positive, people-first workplace culture, ensuring our team feels supported, empowered, and connected.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Partnership and Management: Collaborate closely with senior leaders to define, monitor, and advance strategic objectives and key business initiatives. Assist with executing priorities to elevate our Engineers and the Goldman Sachs Engineering brand internally and externally.

Onboarding Management: Partner with HR to oversee and continuously refine the local onboarding process to ensure a smooth and welcoming experience for all employees.

HR Operations & Administration: Manage essential HR administrative tasks, including record-keeping, policy implementation support, and general HR support, ensuring compliance and efficiency.

Workplace & Office Management: Coordinate office administration, ensuring a functional, comfortable, and productive work environment. Manage local office budgets.

Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Act as a central point of contact to facilitate effective communication and collaboration across various departments and COO/CoS functions, streamlining workflows and initiatives. Participate in capacity planning initiatives to anticipate resource allocation needs, balance demand with available resources, and ensure optimal performance and scalability of technology infrastructure and teams. Implement effective workforce planning strategies, including hiring, organizational design, and training, to support the evolving demands of technology operations

Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for process optimization and efficiency gains, designing and implementing solutions to enhance the overall employee journey.

Culture & Engagement: Actively contribute to fostering a positive, inclusive, and people-first workplace culture through various initiatives and support mechanisms. Engagement with local/regional stakeholders to promote the GS brand and act as culture carrier.

Coordination: Oversight of key business meetings and programming events for leadership and regional stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications

Demonstrated experience in a strategic support, HR administration, operations, project management, or operational role within a fast-paced, complex environment.

Ability to build strong relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels of an organization.

Exceptional organizational skills with a keen eye for detail and process improvement.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively across all levels.

Strong proficiency in standard business productivity software, including advanced experience in presentation and manipulating data using spreadsheet applications; ability to analyze data and draw conclusions.

Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Adherence to full week in office policy.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required: preferred degree in business, finance, communications, management, organizational development, human resources, public relations, marketing, or consulting preferred.

3 or more years of related work experience preferred but not required.

Experience within the financial services or technology industry.

Strong proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and AI Tooling.

A proactive, adaptable, and intellectually curious mindset, with a commitment to continuous improvement.

Experience setting up or scaling up a regional engineering office

Salary Range

The expected base salary for this Seattle, Washington, United States-based position is $85000-$140000. 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

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