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 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 Your Role
Our research associates are an integral part of our investment process. On a day-to-day basis they collaborate with our Investment Associates to build out new datasets and help create analytics that drive investment insights, develop new systematic trading strategies based on those investment insights, partner with our Investment Engineers to tackle data science and data engineering problems for use in our systematic processes, and independently operate the systems they build. Through this hybrid role they will gain exposure to the core components that make up the engine that drives the discovery of insights and translates those into actionable market views making it an exciting and flexible entry point for those with a variety of skills and interests within the systematic investing space. Given the flat structure of the team, Research Associates can get exposure to the investment thinking of some of the most senior equity investors at the firm and participate in market and portfolio discussions.
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You will drive the following responsibilities:
As an Equity Research Associate on our team, you’ll spend your time
- Exploring new datasets that feed into our research and development agenda
- Assisting in the creation of analytics that drive investment insights
- Developing systematic trading & investment strategies based on those insights
- Driving data engineering projects for consumption in our systematic investment processes
- Building visualizations and diagnostics of our data universe to assist in monitoring equity fundamentals and market action
- Running and operating systems that you have engineered to trade markets
You will be a click for the role if you have:
- A minimum of 2 years of experience in asset management, investment banking, independent or sell-side equity research, equity data, or data science; or in quantitative risk or equities trading
- Strong mathematical and statistical modeling skills (i.e. highly dimensional time-series and cross-sectional datasets)
- Strong understanding of financial statements, accounting, and valuation
- Scripting/Functional programming knowledge – primarily R or Python, Scala a plus
- A desire to join a growing team with the potential for growing impact across equity strategies
- Excellent communication skills and strong interpersonal skills
- Intellectual curiosity and detail-orientation
- The ability to be a flexible, resilient team player with a positive attitude
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Physical Requirements
For most of our roles, Bridgewater offers remote flexibility, with most employees required to work from our Westport, CT office twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
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 $125,000-$225,000. 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 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 provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer
