Project Manager – Investment Engineering

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 for 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.

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.

About the Research Department

Our mission is to understand how the world works — building and compounding our understanding of the timeless cause-and-effect relationships that move global economies and markets. With curiosity, cutting-edge technology, and deep sets of data, we build frameworks and analytical models that explain everything from long-term debt cycles to currency devaluations; and we use that compounded understanding to create the investment strategies that drive Bridgewater.

About the Team

The Project Manager role is part of the Investment Engineering team. Their mission is to build the core pieces of modeled data which underlie Bridgewater’s investment understanding and trading strategies.

About Your Role 
As an Investment Engineering Project Manager, you will be responsible for driving the delivery of the investment models we use to trade markets. With hundreds of models in production, Investment Engineering has the challenge of both building new models and maintaining our existing base models. You will be responsible for all aspects of the project lifecycle: planning, work milestones, resourcing, and delivery. Our projects involve investors, engineers, operators, and technologists all working in concert to evolve our systematic investment process. You will be responsible for operating effectively across Bridgewater to ensure projects run well. The projects involve technical, analytical, and investment complexity; you should both enjoy these kinds of problems and work well with investors and engineers alike. The projects you will manage are highly impactful and, as such, have many interested parties. You will be expected to synthesize and present to senior managers on projects.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Understand Bridgewater’s broad investment objectives, strategies, clients, the products and markets we trade, and the investment lifecycle across multiple departments
• Drive and own the planning and execution of both day-to-day and large-scale engineering focused projects 
• Provide visibility on business deliverable progress / synthesis / key risks to stakeholders through performance indicators and metrics

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Have an interest and background in financial markets, instruments, and capital markets 
• Can drive complex, high-value projects while managing multiple partners, risks and dependencies
• Anticipate problems and complications, and formulate solutions to unblock the progress of the project
• Are organized, reliable, and can visualize well
• Are comfortable confronting ambiguous problems and working collaboratively to identify solutions
• Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership
• Are able to consistently step back and improve your way of operating
• Weigh what they know and understand in determining confidence. Open to other perspectives than your own, without accepting illogical/irrational ones.
• Are able to reflect objectively on one's own behavior; step above oneself and see things from a higher level with a good understanding of their strengths/weaknesses in a particular situation.

Minimum Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in financial services consulting, strategy or management consulting or similar role within a financial institution
• Familiarity with financial markets and financial instruments.
• Experience with program/project management including framing and structuring ambiguous problems, requirement gathering and solutioning.
• Grasp of market and industry trends

Physical Requirements
This role requires individuals to work at our offices in Westport, CT at a minimum of two days (and some cases three) per week with the option to work offsite on other days.

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 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

The wage range for this role is $150,000 - $250,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.