Portfolio Associate

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.

Our culture is anchored in excellence—meaning constant improvement—and is tied to our mission. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving. We value transparency in decision-making and feedback, and we strive to recruit and develop people who push the boundaries of what is possible.

About Your Role

• You will operate the systematized investment logic we use to create ideal portfolios for our clients.
• You will oversee a set of processes that ingest updated market data along with our research department's view, apply portfolio construction logic, risk controls, and client-specific constraints to determine those ideal portfolios.
• You will oversee our logic for selecting instruments and deliver the set of trades necessary to implement our portfolios to our trading department.
• You will regularly communicate your understanding and assessment to a diverse group, including senior investment managers, traders, and developers.
• You will partner with technologists and researchers to continually improve our processes, focusing on efficiency and new logic or portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Execute and oversee the systematized logic used to generate client portfolios and trades daily.
• Understand and effectively communicate the state of portfolios to senior investment teams and CIOs.
• Work with technologists and researchers to construct new investment implementation systems or overhaul existing ones.
• Drive initiatives to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the systems you own.
• Evolve the methods and best practices used by the broader investment community.

Qualifications

• 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution
• 3+ years of relevant work experience at an investment bank or asset management firm
• Experience with portfolio construction and risk management techniques

Physical Requirements

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

Compensation

• The wage range for this role is $140,000 - $220,000 base salary with an additional discretionary target bonus.

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