Project Manager, Partnership Office

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 every day, 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. 

Explore more information about Bridgewater’s culture on our website here. 

About the Role 

Bridgewater’s Partnership is the group of the firm’s most senior leaders and largest owners, who are collectively responsible for stewarding the firm’s culture and principles, its governance, and its long-term success. Partners work alongside executive leadership and the Board of Directors to hold the firm to its highest standard. The Partner Office helps facilitate the firm-building and governance activities of Bridgewater’s Partners by organizing and managing the key day-to-day activities of the Partnership’s committees and the strategic projects to build the Partnership and its impact. The Partner Office Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing a broad range of tasks and projects in support of this mission. You will work closely with Bridgewater’s 47 Partners to help drive the success of the Partnership and ensure productive coordination with the firm’s executive leadership and operating Board of Directors.  

In this role, you will partner with the Partnership Chair and Deputy Chair to shape the Partnership from where it stands today to its future potential. You will be responsible for designing and managing both operational and strategic projects, supporting key initiatives such as communications, priority setting, and project proposals. Additionally, you will interact with multiple executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams across the company. 

Successful candidates will be independent self-starters who are interested in getting exposure to company-level priorities and business strategies. They will demonstrate strong organizational skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and be able to provide structure to complex projects, and have a desire to grow their strategic capabilities. This is a fast-paced, results-oriented environment that requires the ability to balance multiple responsibilities and demanding deadlines.  

You will be a fit for the role if you: 

• Are organized, reliable, and can prioritize effectively 
• Have a track record of managing and executing on many concurrent threads across different initiatives 
• Are passionate about running and improving processes and keeping the trains on time and on track 
• Can communicate clearly and respond in a timely manner, and collaborate with a variety of different stakeholders, including senior executives 
• Can independently advance important initiatives with limited oversight and direction 
• Have strong attention to detail 
• Are willing to speak up and share your point of view, constructively challenge others, including senior leaders 
• You give feedback directly and take it well 

You will drive the following responsibilities: 

Run Partnership management and projects, including:  

• Collaborating with the Partnership Chair and Deputy Chair on setting and maintaining the Partnership priorities 
• Managing the Partnership committees and working directly with committee chairs in setting the committee meeting agendas and priorities 
• Partnering with the Partnership Leadership Committee on strategic initiatives 
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across Bridgewater (i.e., Office of the CEO, Board Office, Executive Committee) to stay up-to-date and coordinated on key threads  
• Owning the tracking and accountability of Partner engagement and impact 

Support key operational responsibilities within the Partnership, including: 

• Point of contact for Partnership requests 
• Partnering closely with the Partnership Office coordinator on executing logistics 
• Managing engagement with Partner teams and Partnership Office coordinator 
• Collaborating with Finance on Partnership Office budget 

Minimum qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s Degree with an excellent academic record  
• 2 – 4 years of strategy consulting, project management or equivalent experience  
• Exceptional communication abilities: able to crisply, and effectively, communicate (both verbally and in writing) with all levels of employees including senior leadership 
• Proven track record demonstrating strong process 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 departments 
• Integrity, precision, and care in handling sensitive, complex information  
• Structured and rigorous approach to solving complex problems  

Compensation 

The wage range for this role is $120,000- $175,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.  

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 with 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. 

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