Goldman Sachs’ new hires will manage AI agents from day one

At Goldman Sachs, the first job title for a fresh hire may soon effectively be “manager.” The catch is that the direct reports are software. Kevin Sneader, who heads the bank’s Asia Pacific business, said new finance hires will oversee AI agents from the very start of their careers. He made the remarks at the Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore on October 8, 2026. What Goldman is actually changing Instead of spending years grinding through grunt work before earning the right to delegate, new employees will be delegating from the outset. Their delegates are AI agents: tools that can take a task, break it into steps, and carry it out with a human checking the work. Goldman’s push into agentic AI started in 2025 with Devin, a coding agent built by Cognition. The bank rolled it out across a technology division of about 12,000 engineers. The scope has since widened. Goldman has deployed Anthropic’s Claude into core business functions, including trade accounting, compliance, and client onboarding. The results so far include productivity gains of more than 20% in software engineering tasks since agentic AI was introduced. Junior staff, senior skills Chief Information Officer Marco A...