Management Coordinator

About the Alpha Engine Department

The Alpha Engine is responsible for Pure Alpha, Bridgewater’s flagship alpha strategy launched in 1991. Our aim in Pure Alpha is to generate high and consistent returns, uncorrelated to markets and other managers over time. We pursue this by systematically deploying our fundamental understanding of markets and economies to trade long, short, and relative value across roughly 200 liquid public markets. 

About Your Role

The Management Coordinator role has a wide breadth of responsibilities, spanning across multiple areas to ensure smooth and efficient day-to-day process management. In this role, you will support a subset of BW’s Senior Investors or Operations Leaders and their teams, getting exposure to many different areas of work while learning the business and getting things done. Depending on the needs of the leaders you support, your responsibilities will include managing their day-to-day administrative and executive support needs with the potential to scale into taking on broader operational and process management responsibilities. 

This role requires someone who is passionate about managing processes in a reliable manner, while also ensuring the senior leader’s world runs smoothly at every level. Successful candidates will thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment where one needs to juggle multiple responsibilities while being an excellent facilitator, communicator, and proactive partner.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Leadership partnership & execution: Proactively work with executives to set priorities, anticipate needs, and align on where to focus time and resources.
• Calendar & time management: Own complex, fast-moving calendars for leaders and Research Group members, proactively resolving conflicts, protecting focus time, and coordinating with support teams across the company
• Team operations: Own operational support that enables team goals, including onboarding and offboarding, team-specific policies, and talent assessment processes.
• Workplace coordination: Partner with workplace and facilities teams to manage office space, seating arrangements, and evolving space needs for executives and teams.

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus.

You will be a click for the role if:

• Have a passion and knack for organization, planning, prioritization, and can solve problems effectively
• Derive satisfaction from making others’ worlds run smoothly
• Have high empathy; you can read the room and understand people well
• Enjoy working as part of a team to support senior executives
• Possess a “can-do” attitude and have the desire and willingness to roll up your sleeves and jump into whatever is needed
• Are highly determined, consistently willing to push through to get things done.
• Have a track record of ability to manage and execute on many concurrent threads across different initiatives
• Can communicate and respond in a timely manner
• Have the intuition on when to efficiently raise and escalate problems or roadblocks
• Are able to consistently step back and improve your way of operating
• Humble and open-minded, eager to learn and take on more as the responsibilities over time

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in administrative support, business operations, project management, or similar type of role
• Ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders through excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to operate excellently in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
• Ability to prioritize and work cross functionally when managing several concurrent threads.
• Ability to work with and manage various stakeholders in service of a common goal.
• Experience running and improving operational processes
• Ability to work flexible hours (e.g. some evenings) as required to match the needs of the team(s) you support

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 $110,000-$150,000. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% 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