Management Coordinator

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 the Total Portfolio Strategies Department and Your Role

In Total Portfolio Strategies, our goal is to shape our industry by building on Bridgewater’s deep understanding of the world to partner with clients on their holistic portfolio challenges, seeking to deliver innovative investment strategies that help achieve our clients’ most important goals. The Management Coordinator will be a key member of the organization, playing a critical role as the execution arm supporting a Senior Leader of the department, owning all administrative support functions to enable both internal and external-facing commitments. This includes time management and calendaring for the Senior Leader and other members of the team as directed. The Management Coordinator will frequently work in a cross-functional manner both internally and externally, driving cohesion and collaboration between teams as the connective tissue and drumbeat across the day-to-day and forward-looking orchestration. This role requires a highly organized person who can juggle multiple priorities smoothly with an emphasis on discretion, judgment, and exceptional communication skills. Successful candidates will demonstrate their ability to thrive in dynamic, excellence-driven environments where the landscape is consistently changing and evolving through time.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Provide high quality administrative support (both internal & external facing) to a department Senior Leader and other members of the team as directed, including owning calendar management, coordinating travel and submitting expenses
• Partner directly with the Senior Leader to understand team goals and operationalize into functioning cadences
• Ensure team and key stakeholders are prepared for all client interactions (i.e. presentations, prep notes, technology) 
• Facilitate synchronization and communication across the team by tracking and reporting on status of key activities and keeping knowledge repositories up to date
• Anticipate and resolve problems efficiently and independently
• Orchestrate and prioritize across long and short-term workstreams while maintaining high quality work
• Collaborate excellently with other teams both within TPS and across the organization

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Are a team player who can learn quickly and who can proactively seek to improve efficiency and quality
• Have a mentality where there is no task too big or small
• Are a ‘big picture’ thinker who is able to focus on the goal at hand, not only tasks
• Thrive in a dynamic environment
• Hold a high standard for excellent client/customer service and desire to help others
• Distill information, prioritize well and summarize key points for those you support
• Enjoy solving problems using logic and common sense to develop practical solutions
• Have the ability to orchestrate and prioritize long and short-term activities at once while maintaining high quality work
• Are willing and able to anticipate the needs and concerns of others
• Demonstrate innate curiosity and a tendency to thrive on learning new things

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in an administrative or coordination capacity
• Highly organized, can manage multiple projects/deliverables with close attention to detail
• Effective and professional written and oral communication skills
• Flexible, able to anticipate and adapt to changes or rapidly evolving situations and administrative needs
• Capability with Microsoft operating systems and/or tools (MS Office 365, Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Experience in financial services or start up environment is a plus, though not required 

Physical Requirements

This role will follow a hybrid schedule, with an onsite requirement of 4 days. Required on-site locations and schedules vary by team, but will either be based in Westport, NYC or involve some degree of alternating between campuses.

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $100,000 - $150,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range. 

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. 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