Director, Investor Relations

Director, Investor Relations

Westport, CT

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.

Finance is the guardian of Bridgewater's financial resources. We seek to drive sustainable shareholder value by controlling, safeguarding, and optimizing use of the firm's financial resources. The department provides strategic partnership, insights, and independent challenge along with the delivery of high-quality financial reporting, forecasting and analysis while maintaining effective and efficient operational control.

The Director of Investor Relations is a key driver of Bridgewater's investor narrative, serving as the connective tissue between the business, the CFO and Board, and our shareholders. This role is devoted to synthesizing complex financial and business information into clear, credible, and compelling communication for the firm's most senior internal and external stakeholders. The role will also oversee the Company's equity valuation process, driving the day-to-day analysis and conceptual thinking, understanding valuation trends and market comparables, and summarizing results for senior audiences and shareholders.

Reporting to the Head of Investor Relations, the Director will evolve Investor Relations from a historically operationally focused function into a proactive, narrative-driven capability that shapes how Bridgewater's performance, strategy, and long-term value creation are understood by shareholders and governance bodies. The role requires strong judgment, exceptional synthesis, strong analytical skills, market intelligence, and comfort operating at the CFO and Board level.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Own and evolve Bridgewater's investor narrative
• Serve as the primary architect and steward of the firm's investor story, ensuring consistency, clarity, and strategic coherence across all shareholder communications.
• Translate business strategy, performance, and risk into investor-ready messaging that reflects both near-term results and long-term value creation.
• Proactively identify narrative gaps, emerging investor questions, and areas where messaging must evolve as the firm grows.

• Senior stakeholder and shareholder engagement
• Act as the senior point of connection between the business and its shareholders, maintaining trusted, long-term relationships grounded in credibility and transparency.
• Prepare and deliver high-quality, client-facing materials for shareholders, the CFO, and the Board, including quarterly and annual reporting, strategic updates, and ad hoc analyses.
• Partner closely with the CFO on Board-level reporting and investor communications, exercising sound judgment on framing, emphasis, and disclosure.

• Strategic leadership of the IR function
• Expand and elevate the scope of Investor Relations beyond historical execution (e.g., distributions, statements, reporting) to include forward-looking strategy, positioning, and insight. Partner well with Equity and Ownership Operations, Corporate Finance, Legal, People, and other teams.
• Set the agenda and priorities for the IR function as it scales from an individual contributor model to a mature team capability.
• Establish best practices for synthesis, storytelling, and senior-level communication within the IR team.

• Synthesis, analysis, and decision support
• Integrate inputs across finance, accounting, tax, FP&A, and the business to produce clear, decision-relevant insights for senior leadership and shareholders.
• Drive the Company's equity valuation process in partnership with senior IR leadership, owning the analytical approach and…