Program Manager

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  1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with aPhilosophy 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 Implementation Department

The Investment Implementation department is a community of diverseinvestment professionals whosemissionis to implement our investment strategies and client portfolios excellently. Our Department is responsible for ensuring the excellent implementation of our systematic investment approach, from raw data to executed trades, with processes and logic that reflect the full richness of our investment insight, executed with a near-zero error rate, and engineered and orchestrated in a way that facilitates oversight and compounding.

This is an investment department, owning the investment outcomes, and the mandate includes both the ‘run’ responsibility and the ‘transform’ responsibility, meaning daily operations as well as over time renovation of our systems.

We fulfill our mission by applying four operating principles:

• Understand and deliver internal client needs. Partner with our internal clients to understand, offer implementation designs, and deliver solutions, while proactively educating and communicating outcomes to ACLs (Asset Class Leads) and CIOs.
• Own our investment intent .Own our investment intent in full, in letter and spirit.
• Continuously improve . Have and evolve an investment pipeline to meet current and future internal client needs.
• Systematically and relentlessly deliver quality outcomes . Apply our best logic systematically, discipline, expertise, and controls to every signal, position, and trade in every market.

About the Role

The Program Manager will join the team to provide direct program management while contributing to the shared goals of both that ecosystem and the broader investment efforts across BW. This role is critical to identification, driving alignment and execution across our department's initiatives, which are closely tied to the firm’s investment capabilities and long-term vision.

This role offers high visibility with senior leadership and is expected to influence departmental direction and company wide priorities. The Program Manager will partner with the…