Project Manager, Total Portfolio Strategies

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 

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. The 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.

About the Total Portfolio Strategies Team 

In Total Portfolio Strategies (TPS), our goal is to shape our industry by building on Bridgewater’s deep understanding of the world to partner with clients on their holistic portfolio challenges, seeking to deliver innovative investment strategies that help achieve our clients’ most important goals.   

The Total Portfolio Strategies Leadership Team sits at the center of the department and is overseen by the Department Head and Chief Operating Officer of Total Portfolio Strategies. This team is responsible for driving the oversight and execution of TPS’s strategic priorities, ensuring alignment across leadership and within the organization, and managing workstreams that enable the department to achieve its goals. 

About Your Role 

The Project Manager role is the “quarterback” of the department, and acts as the connective tissue and drumbeat on all operational elements of the TPS Leadership Team. In this role, you will report directly to the Chief Operating Officer, partnering with senior leaders and stakeholders across the organization to coordinate department-wide initiatives and track progress against key strategic priorities, ensuring the Leadership Team is aligned and moving toward its goals.  

Acting as the “air traffic controller” for TPS priorities, you will help oversee key workflows and ensure accountability across multiple initiatives. This includes close collaboration with the rest of the TPS Leadership team, as well as other internal stakeholders ranging from administrative assistants to senior leaders. You will be the first point of contact for new priorities and coordination requests for the Leadership Team, vetting them, and filtering them against fluctuating priorities to manage and achieve time sensitive goals.  

You will drive the following responsibilities: 

• Synthesize and help execute against key department-wide priorities: Partner with the COO and the rest of the Leadership Team to operationalize strategic priorities into actionable plans, including weighing trade-offs as needed. 
• Manage department / leadership cadences and key meetings: Oversee the TPS strategic calendar – designing ways to keep Leadership & other key stakeholders aligned over short- and long-term time horizons, including everything from annual planning, to landing key meetings, managing agendas, meeting visualization, etc.   
• Measure progress toward achieving goals: For specific initiatives, develop and maintain management processes and tracking systems to monitor milestones, identify risks, and escalate issues as needed. 
• Ensure regular and clear transparency on progress: Gather updates from key stakeholders, synthesize status reports, and communicate progress. 
• Maintain central documentation and accountability: Keep tight records of decisions, milestones, and deliverables to ensure follow-ups are completed, and enable transparency and accountability. 

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Are a team player who can learn quickly, where no task is too big or small 
• Possess excellent organizational skills, time management skills, and a strong attention to detail 
• Can navigate complex competing priorities over different time horizons, knowing when to escalate or make trade-offs 
• Have strong stakeholder management skills – able to build relationships and communicate effectively and professionally at all levels of the organization 
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment – calm under pressure, and able to navigate ambiguity and change excellently 
• Are willing to stay connected, with the expectation of occasional work done outside of standard business hours 
• Enjoy solving problems using logic and common sense to develop practical solutions 

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution  
• Strong organizational and project management skills. 
• Effective written and oral communication skills with attention to detail. 
• Ability to anticipate and independently solve problems. 
• Agility and adaptability in rapidly evolving situations. 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. 

Physical Requirements  

This role will follow a hybrid schedule, with an onsite requirement of 4 days. On average, this role will require roughly 2 days / week on our Westport campus and 2 days / week in our NYC office, though locations and schedules can vary week over week based on team priorities. 

Compensation  

The wage range for this role is $155,000 - $250,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.  

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 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. 

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