Project Manager, Client Investment Research Pillar - Bridgewater Associates

About Bridgewater 

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. 

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world's markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.  

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment to excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.  

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.  

Our Culture 

Bridgewater's unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other's logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships.Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.  

Explore more information about Bridgewater's culture on our website here.  

Client Service Department Overview  

Bridgewater believes that the key to our success lies in creating meaningful, long-lasting relationships with our clients. To this end, Client Service works closely with our clients to help them not only broaden their understanding of the company's investment process and products but also to deepen their understanding of the financial markets more generally. Over and above traditional client service organizations that focus on selling products, Bridgewater's Client Service group operates as an advisor to clients on their entire portfolio, not just the portion under management at Bridgewater.  
 
By providing exceptional transparency and reporting on portfolios, Bridgewater's market outlook and performance, risk management analysis, and advisory research, Client Service helps clients solve their most pressing investment problems and plan their investment strategies. The group frequently meets with clients to discuss portfolio performance, give updates on recent research, provide guidance and training on Bridgewater's pioneering work in such areas as risk budgeting, alpha and beta separation, portable alpha, optimal beta, currency overlay, and global inflation-indexed bond investing; and assist in developing strategies that best meet client needs. 

Client Investment Research Pillar Overview 

The Client Investment Research pillar is responsible for producing the investment content that drives excellent experiences for our clients and supports Bridgewater's goals. The investment professionals in the group act as Bridgewater's in-house investment advisory arm.  They are responsible for partnering with Client Advisors to provide clients with advice, knowledge, and insights to address their most challenging investment questions as well as producing leverageable content tied to our commercial strategies.   

About Your Role 

We are seeking a Project Manager, who will partner directly with the Head of Client Investment Research, as well as the team that helps to manage the Pillar, as their thought partner across all our Pillar initiatives. The Project Manager should be comfortable supporting internal operations, executive partnership, and navigating ambiguous problems while helping create, define, and execute a clear strategic road map.  Their role will own the coordination of such strategic initiatives at the highest level across key senior managers in Client Service. 

The Project Manager is responsible for helping the senior leaders achieve their tactical and strategic objectives. A key element of this role is ensuring continuity of work and timely completion of key tasks amidst a range of competing priorities and timelines. Execution success will depend on attention to detail, comfort with ambiguity and a proactive mindset.  

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Understand the goals and priorities of the Client Service department and partner with the Client Investment Research management team on how to visualize achieving both near-term and long-term goals. 
• Design and run the Head of Client Investment Research operating model.    
• Set and advance the weekly priorities; synthesize and advance monthly priorities for the team.  
• Become the central point person of most workflows that interact with Head of Client Research. 
• Organize key meetings with internal and external teams, ensuring follow-ups and action items are addressed promptly and appropriately prioritized. 
• Visualize, design, and run central team machines (IL, reviews, transparency, employee surveys) and own one-off / bespoke projects as needed. 

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Have experience working with executive teams in areas such as planning and process, organizational change management, communications, and strategy execution. 
• Are an excellent communicator in written and verbal form; able to influence across multiple levels and multiple functions of an organization in a concise manner. 
• Have strong stakeholder management, able to build relationships with many different stakeholders and roles across the org, understanding the respective priorities and areas of focus of those within and outside the pillar.  
• Well-rounded in your ability to understand conceptual, plan strategically, and get very specific and practical. 
• Possess excellent organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple responsibilities, tasks, and priorities with minimal errors. 
• Can deal with a fast-paced environment and stay on top of it, keeping the team organized and aware of what's happening as needed. 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of working experience with a focus on business operations, project management or program management. 
• Highest level of integrity, emotional intelligence, and management of confidential and sensitive information. 
• Adaptability / flexibility in a high-pressure environment. 
• Proven ability to thrive in an ambiguous and complex environment. 
• Effective written and oral communication skills with strong attention to detail. 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint). 

Physical Requirements: 

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus.  

Compensation Band:

The wage range for this role is $175,000 - $200,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is 70-90% of this wage range. 

Why Choose Bridgewater?  

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you with opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.  

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:  

• Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services  
• 401(k) plan with generous employer match  
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package  
• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare  
• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing  
• Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks, and meditation rooms  
• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups  
• For a full list of Bridgewater benefits, click here. 

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations. 

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.  

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer.