Alpha Engine - Management Coordinator -… at Bridgewater… · New York…

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

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else. 

About Alpha Engine

Our core mission as an organization is to understand the fundamental drivers of markets and turn that understanding into high-quality portfolios and investment advice for our clients.  We do this in three critical ways: by being fundamental, systematic, and diversified. We seek to understand the economy in a fundamental way, uncovering the timeless and universal cause-and-effect linkages that drive global markets. That understanding is implemented systematically and converted into explicit rules that can be rigorously stress-tested. Finally, we create highly diversified portfolios that are not dependent on any one source of return and can survive a wide range of economic environments.

About the Role

The Management Coordinator role has a wide breadth of responsibilities, spanning across multiple areas to ensure smooth and efficient day-to-day process management. In this role, you will support a subset of BW’s Senior Investor and Operations Management and their teams, getting exposure to many different areas of work while learning the business and getting things done. This role requires someone who is passionate about managing processes in a reliable manner, while also ensuring services provided are achieving the goal of the senior leader’s world running smoothly at every level. Successful candidates will thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment where one needs to juggle multiple responsibilities while being an excellent facilitator, communicator, and proactive partner.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Work with BW Senior Investor and Operations Management and their teams to ensure long term goals translate to the day-to-day and are executed effectively
• Own all operational support functions to enable the team’s business goals – such as onboarding / offboarding talent, team specific operational policies, talent assessment processes, etc.
• Manage challenging and fast-moving calendars, partnering with support teams across the department and company
• Track and coordinate priorities to ensure deliverables are completed in a timely manner
• Run and improve smaller scale operational processes within the team

Interested in learning more about working at Bridgewater? Hear about the experiences of our employees here. 

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Have a passion and knack for organization, planning, prioritization, and can solve problems effectively
• Derive satisfaction from making others’ worlds run smoothly
• Have high empathy; you can read the room and understand people well
• Enjoy working as part of a team to support senior executives
• Possess a “can-do” attitude and have the desire and willingness to roll up your sleeves and jump into whatever is needed
• Are highly determined, consistently willing to push through to get things done.
• Have a track record of ability to manage and execute on many concurrent threads across different initiatives
• Can communicate and respond in a timely manner
• Have the intuition on when to efficiently raise and escalate problems or roadblocks
• Are able to consistently step back and improve your way of operating
• Humble and open-minded, eager to learn and take on more as the responsibilities over time

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in administrative support, business operations, project management, or similar type of role
• Ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders through excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to operate excellently in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
• Ability to prioritize and work cross functionally when managing several concurrent threads.
• Ability to work with and manage various stakeholders in service of a common goal.
• Experience running and improving operational processes
• Ability to work flexible hours (e.g. some evenings) as required to match the needs of the team(s) you support

In addition, to succeed within our unique culture and work environment, individuals must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches. Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented. All Bridgewater employees are expected to be honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback. Our employees constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence. 

Physical Requirements

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

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.

Compensation Band:

• The expected annual base salary for this position is $100,000-$125,000. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus.

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. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website 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