Program Manager

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.

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Our Culture

Our culture is tied to our mission, which is to understand how the world's markets and economies work, and to translate that into world-class investment performance. This requires an extraordinary team, defined by the best individuals and the best portfolio of people, operating in an idea meritocracy. In this, we are uncompromising on our shared values of excellence, truth, integrity, humility, and courage. Our aspiration of a vibrant idea meritocracy requires diversity of thought - this comes from diversity of background, identity, experience, and so much more. We pursue inclusion because it's how we unlock the power of that diversity and make sure the best ideas get heard. To sustain this way of being through lots of years and lots of circumstances, we invest in meaningful work and meaningful relationships - the purpose and joy that comes from tackling something challenging and worthy, alongside people who make us better versions of ourselves.

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About the Implementation Department

The Investment Implementation department is a community of diverse investment professionals whose mission is to implement our investment strategies and client portfolios excellently. Our Pillar is responsible for ensuring the excellent implementation of our systematic investment approach, from raw data to executed trades, with processes and logic that reflect the full richness of our investment insight, executed with a near-zero error rate, and engineered and orchestrated in a way that facilitates oversight and compounding. This is an investment pillar, owning the touching-the-money investment outcomes, and the mandate includes both the 'run' responsibility and the 'transform' responsibility, meaning daily operations as well as over time renovation of our systems.

We fulfill our mission by applying four operating principles:

Understand and deliver internal client needs. Partner with our internal clients to understand, offer implementation designs, and deliver solutions, while proactively educating and communicating outcomes to ACLs (Asset Class Leads) and CIOs.

Own our investment intent. Own our investment intent in full, in letter and spirit.

Continuously improve. Have and evolve an investment pipeline to meet current and future internal client needs.

Systematically and relentlessly deliver quality outcomes. Apply our best logic systematically, discipline, expertise, and controls to every signal, position, and trade in every market. About the Role

The Sr. Program Manager for the Implementation Dept, will join the team of Implementation Leadership, Investment Associates, and Investment Engineers in Implementation to provide direct program management while contributing to the shared goals of both that ecosystem and the broader investment efforts across BW. The Department Head of Implementation (Aaron) holds a critical role in strategically leading Bridgewater's investment capabilities, reporting directly to the CEO and Deputy CEO. Aaron has broad senior manager responsibilities to strategic guide the department while overseeing critical day to day investment outcomes. The Sr. Program Management role for the department is critical to creating and delivering our department strategy, plan, and metrics; communicating with senior internal and external stakeholders; and directly managing a one or more department level projects.

The Sr. Program Manager for the Implementation Dept reports to Aaron while closely working the department managers. The scope of the role includes planning strategic work, business analysis, driving strategic planning sessions, visualizing interactions, problem solving, while ensuring accountability and transparency in our planning capabilities. The Sr. Program Manager will work in a cross-functional manner, driving cohesion and collaboration between teams including but not limited to senior leaders, stakeholders, and investors. Depending on experience and desire for growth, there is also ample room to elevate beyond these responsibilities as the vision for the organization comes together.

This role requires a person who has a track record of effectively working across teams and managing multiple projects at once. They have solid program management skills, analytical capabilities and know how to interact in a reliable and professional way with different subject matter experts at all levels. This person should understand company dynamics and how to navigate competing priorities across teams. Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate their ability to thrive in dynamic, excellence-driven environments and to be proactive partners. This role requires a high level of ownership and the ability to call out badness.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

Partner to create structure, organization, and cadences for creating our multi-year strategic vision and managing our plans & roadmaps. The expectation is that the person's role will evolve through time and will not be limited to one specific area.

Help synthesize and oversee our annual plan.

Communicate with Dept Head, Managers and Stakeholders regularly on the synthesis of the projects.

Evolve and manage the processes and metrics for program and projects management.

Drive accountability, objective metrics, problem diagnosis, and resolution.

Oversee outcomes; problem solve to address roadblocks and risks to achieve their goals.

Drive execution, provide direction, and project manage initiatives in partnership with the Dept Heads.

Anticipate and resolve problems efficiently and independently.

Work with other teams on projects and process-improvements. Minimum Qualifications

Exceptional communication abilities: able to crisply, and effectively, communicate (both verbally and in writing) with senior leadership.

Strong program management skills with experience driving measurable change in an organization.

Experience keeping complex, multi-phased projects on track; strong organizational skills and a commitment to reliably meeting deadlines.

Ability to autonomously operate in a dynamic environment; be flexible when priorities shift and/or agile enough to pivot a project based on additional data/new inputs.

A desire to learn and develop independent conclusions; must also be willing to challenge the status quo.

Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to collaboratively partner across teams.

Advanced use of Microsoft Office, specifically Excel and PowerPoint.

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent; 2+ years in a sr. project management position.

Although not a 'must have' it's advantageous to have experience leading project teams and be familiar/experienced with our core concepts of alpha, beta, portfolio construction, etc. 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.

In this role, you will grow with us by:

Acting as a primary partner to our department leaders

Sharpening your ability to solve tough problems and becoming more effective as you learn about your own strengths and weaknesses.

Taking on larger and more complex projects as you learn and master the day-to-day responsibilities of your job, having more impact through time.

Gaining insight into the full scope of Implementation and the critical role the department plays in the Investment Pipeline

Receiving exposure to the investment strategy and relationships that are at the heart of what we do. Physical Requirements

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our Westport, CT campus. Compensation Band

The expected annual base salary for this position is $150,000-$250,000. 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