Project Manager - Research Analytics Management (RAM)

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.

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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.

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About the Investment 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 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 and evolve our investment strategies and portfolios for our clients.

About Your Role

Our Research Analytics Management (RAM) team is responsible for managing Bridgewater’s Investment Research teams, setting the strategy, defining priorities, and running operations for the group. As a Project Manager on the team, you will have a wide breadth of responsibilities all aimed at ensuring smooth and efficient day-to-day process management and strategic project management. In this role, you will support key operational responsibilities within the Research Analytics Pillar, such pillar communications, reviews, and expectation setting, gaining exposure to multiple stakeholders and functions (HR, Technology, Real Estate & Facilities, etc.). Additionally, you’ll take on special projects such as our leading our front-office mentorship program and partnering to shape our talent initiatives. This role requires someone who is passionate about developing and managing processes in a reliable manner and building strong relationships with many stakeholders. Successful candidates will thrive in a fast-paced, results oriented environment where one needs to juggle multiple responsibilities at once. Additionally, excellent and proactive communication skills are invaluable.  

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Are organized, reliable and can prioritize effectively
• Have a track record of ability to manage and execute on many concurrent threads across different initiatives
• Have a passion for running and improving process and keeping the trains running and on track
• Can communicate and respond in a timely manner
• Have a strong attention to detail
• Have an ability to clearly communicate and collaborate with a variety of different stakeholders

You will drive the following responsibilities:

Run pillar and cross-department programs (special projects). Projects may include:

• Partner with Analytics Manager on pillar transparency machine, including maintaining calendar of key touchpoints, engaging stakeholders on required updates, holding leaders accountable to providing updates to the community, etc.
• Project manage the Client Service-Investment Engine Mentorship program and associated programming
• Project manage and coordinate Investment training for groups of employees within the department
• Project manage DEI initiatives and programming in the pillar
• Execute logistics around other pillar-wide processes

Support key operational responsibilities within the Analytics pillar, including:

• Partner in visualizing and running end of year reviews
• Work with Real Estate & Facilities on space-related matters for the Research department, including seating chart updates, managing office/seating requests, space renovations, etc.
• Setup new hires well as they onboard into the department, including enabling their media setup, adding them to proper distribution lists, ensuring there’s appropriate technology setup, etc.
• Own day-to-day owner of human capital management responsibilities (Workday), including creating new positions, executing and tracking transfers, and maintaining our org chart

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Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to interact with senior stakeholders and teams through excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to operate excellently in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
• Experience running, developing, and improving operational processes

Physical Requirements

For most of our roles, Bridgewater offers remote work flexibility, with most employees required to work on campus as their principal work location, a minimum of two days (and in some cases three days) 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. 

Compensation Band:

• The wage range for this position is $80,000-$130,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80%-90% of this wage range.

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
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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 is an Equal Opportunity Employer