Data Sourcing & Strategy Associate

About the Technology Department

The Technology team at Bridgewater engineers systems to understand the world. These systems synthesize and industrialize our global understanding into a hive mind of macroeconomic knowledge which enables us to educate and collaborate with the world’s most influential central banks and policy makers and carefully and strategically manage the world’s most important capital. Our technologists are engineering highly available, high performing and highly secure cloud platforms and infrastructure which support and scale our investing operations.

About Your Role 

In this role, you will be an integral part of the Research, Data Strategy and Acquisition function at Bridgewater. Operating at the front edge of our Investment Data practice, you will be part of the execution and evolution of our Relationship Management, Supplier Knowledge Management, and Internal Stakeholder Management disciplines. You will engage with investors, associates, engineers, and external vendors and sources to improve our understanding of external offerings and vendors’ understanding of our needs, quality management, and business alignment.  

You will be immersed in our workflows, investment questions, supplier challenges, market making and matching, internal marketing/advocacy, and vendor engagement strategy. You will regularly communicate your understanding and assessments to a diverse group of stakeholders, including investment professionals, vendors and service providers, Management, Compliance, Legal, and Finance. You will partner across the firm and with vendors (existing and prospective), collaborating with hundreds of individuals over the course of a year.  

You will drive the following responsibilities:  

• Executing across the systems, sourcing, supply chains, and internal demand we use to acquire, provide and maintain the inbound fuel for the Investment requests that arrive unspecified or overly prescribed, helping the investor clarify what they need. 

• Dynamically understanding the world of offerings, known and unknown to Bridgewater, creating potential market matches, indications of interest, discerning and selecting structure from the external world.   

• Owning the Investment Asks that land unspecified or over-specified, where the investor or colleague cannot say what they need. 

• Understanding and effectively communicating the state of specific components of the sourcing portfolio, and our knowledge bases of passes, no bids, and deferred opportunities.   

• Building, maintaining, and rapidly sorting inbound possibilities, candidate sources and existing data sources and services in the sourcing portfolio.   

• Improving and executing on the ML/AI layer we are rapidly introducing into our external discovery and matching process, designed from first principles. 

• Creating and documenting initiatives to raise the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the practice’s systems.   

• Continuously evaluating and enhancing processes for sourcing, vetting, and delivering content processes at scale.   

• Advocating with existing and potential vendors to improve the quality of their pitches.   

You will be a fit for the role if you: 

• Are curious, practical, analytical, capable, and willing to fail and learn from failing, in broad engagement with a diverse international set of people and processes both inside and outside of Bridgewater.   

• Are able to manage a high volume of work across diverse functions and competing priorities, while effectively communicating, executing and marking to market.   

• Think in terms of systems and naturally look for ways to solve problems through the evolution of those systems.   

• Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership in everything you do.   

• Are willing to operate across all levels of work, starting from basic task execution and evolving into complex, multi-month and multi-modal efforts.   

In this role, you will grow with us by: 

• Undergoing an on-the-job training program that includes structured engagement with the external world, live apprenticeship, and working with highly experienced colleagues.   

• Actively engaging and grappling with the growth and evolution of the practice. 

• Having your voice and perspective heard, and over time representing the firm in important vendor, counterparty, and provider management discussions.  

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is three days per week at our Westport, CT campus and one day per week at our NYC campus.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution  

• 3-7 years of relevant work experience at an investment bank, vendor/service provider or asset management firm  

• Experience in at least two of the following: Relationship Management, Supplier Knowledge Management (understanding what suppliers and sources can offer, beyond their past performance), or Internal Stakeholder Management 

• Experience with Capital Markets market or research data is a strong plus 

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a global macro investment firm, founded in 1975, whose mission is to develop a fundamental, cause-and-effect understanding of how markets and economies work—and translate that understanding into insights, returns, and solutions that help the world’s leading institutional investors solve their most important investment challenges. 

Over five decades, we have codified our fundamental understanding into a systematic investment process—integrating human judgment with machine intelligence with the goal of applying our thinking consistently, testing it against reality, and continuously improving decision-making over time. We believe this has created a unique platform for applying AI within our process, positioning us at the frontier of integrating technology with investment decision-making. 

In financial markets—where reality is constantly evolving and outcomes are uncertain—sustained excellence requires continuous learning and improvement. Our culture—anchored in radical truth and transparency—helps us learn faster. 

Find more information about Bridgewater on our website.

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s culture is anchored in the pursuit of excellence—tied directly to our mission. In financial markets, where the base case is failure and reality is constantly evolving, winning requires continuous learning and improvement. Truth is our most essential tool for improvement, and transparency helps us get closer to truth because it places many eyes on our decisions, problems, and mistakes. By understanding reality clearly, we can identify the gap between where we are and where we want to be—and use that knowledge to learn and get better. Our system that supports this way of being is an idea meritocracy, where we commit to finding and rewarding the best ideas regardless of hierarchy. 

Operating in these ways is hard. Finding truth and learning through it is inherently a high-friction cycle. It’s possible because we share a few core values: a commitment to honesty, high ownership, deeply meaningful work and relationships, and building Bridgewater as a big tent where vast differences are welcomed. These values create the common denominator that binds us together in good times and bad. 

Benefits

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, retirement benefits, paid leave, and other fringe benefits. Find more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website. 

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. 

Sponsorship

Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.  

Compensation

The wage range for this role is 170,000 - $225,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 70% - 80% of this wage range.  

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.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer