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.

Our Culture

Our culture is tied to our mission, which is to understand how the world’s markets and economies work, and to translate that into world-class investment performance. This requires an extraordinary team, defined by the best individuals and the best portfolio of people, operating in an idea meritocracy . In this, we are uncompromising on our shared values of excellence, truth, integrity, humility, and courage.

Our aspiration of a vibrant idea meritocracy requires diversity of thought – this comes from diversity of background, identity, experience, and so much more. We pursue inclusion because it’s how we unlock the power of that diversity and make sure the best ideas get heard. To sustain this way of being through lots of years and lots of circumstances, we invest in meaningful work and meaningful relationships – the purpose and joy that comes from tackling something challenging and worthy, alongside people who make us better versions of ourselves.

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

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 Department Head and Director of Investment System Programs to shape and operationalize multi-year initiatives, identify and engage key stakeholders, and build clear paths of influence. The person in this role will collaborate with subject matter experts who require development in strategy and execution, as well as play a key role in translating the strategy into action.

This includes guiding department level priorities,…