Management Administrator

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. Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s culture on our website here.

About AIA Labs

AIA Labs is an in-house venture at Bridgewater Associates that is focused on using AI (Artificial Intelligence) to generate returns in markets. Its goal is to develop capabilities that enhance Bridgewater’s existing strategies as well as to manage a dedicated AI strategy for clients.

About Your Role

As a Management Administrator, you’ll help the AIA Labs team organize, prioritize and execute work. You will primarily help several of our pillar heads to manage their time and will need to understand their priorities, conflicts and needs. You will be the ‘air traffic controller’ for aspects of the team, responsible for a variety of administrative, operational and workflow management activities.  You will manage multiple initiatives simultaneously. Our Management Administrator must be highly organized, detail-oriented, calm under pressure, and great at time management. They must communicate professionally, enjoy problem solving, and thrive in a dynamic, relationship-driven environment.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Partner with the AIA COO to organize track and execute operations workstreams covering HR, Finance, Projects and other functional areas
• Meet with your designated stakeholders, help them manage their time and support their key initiatives effectively
• Coordinate tasks, activities and collaboration sessions to meet AIA Labs needs from visualization to scheduling
• Facilitate synchronization and communication across the team, by tracking and reporting on status of key activities and keeping knowledge repositories up to date (i.e. Sharepoint, JIRA)
• Coordinate logistics for clients and team, including travel strategy, events and presentation materials
• Anticipate and resolve problems efficiently and independently
• Work with other teams on projects to improve departmental operations

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Have the ability to orchestrate and prioritize multiple activities at once while maintaining high quality work
• Distill information, prioritize well and summarize key points for senior leaders
• Are a team player who can learn quickly and who can proactively seek to improve efficiency and quality
• Enjoy solving problems using logic and common sense to develop practical solutions

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience supporting senior management figures
• Effective written and oral communication skills with strong attention to detail
• A high degree of proficiency in Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel; general comfort with learning and using new software tools
• Bachelor’s degree with strong academic record preferred
• Experience in financial services or a professional business environment is a plus, though not required

Location Requirements

• For most of our roles, Bridgewater offers remote work flexibility, with most employees required to work on campus in Westport as their principal work location, a minimum of two days (and in some cases three days) per week with the option to work offsite on other days.

Wage Range

The wage range for this role is $100,000 - $140,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80-90% of this compensation 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.

In this role, you will grow with us by:

• Taking extended ownership of team operations processes and cadences
• Opportunities to grow your career across Bridgewater depending on your strengths, weaknesses, and experience

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 including:

• Health insurance, including vision and dental coverage, with 100% of premiums paid for by Bridgewater
• Global telemedicine access (24/7 access to licensed doctors)
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups

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 is an Equal Opportunity Employer.