Technical Project Manager, Investment Technology

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

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.

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.

Position Summary

The goal of Bridgewater's Account Management team is to translate Bridgewater's understanding of how the global economy works into strategy specific portfolios. Embedded within Account Management is a uniquely talented technology team that builds and manages the tools that allow our portfolio strategists, investors, and operations teams to create and test new portfolio strategies and logic, construct portfolios and manifest our desired portfolios to securities we can trade in the markets. As the Technical Project Manager you will focus on driving complex software projects within this space to success. Your mission will be to ship high-quality software. This will involve shaping and improving processes and teamwork, identifying and resolving dependencies and removing obstacles that obstruct progress.

We think you’ll click with us if you

• Can drive complex, high-value projects involving multiple partners to success, on time
• Manage each release through the launch process
• Anticipate problems and complications, and formulate solutions to unblock the progress of the project
• Act as an owner, assume responsibility and drive issues to resolution
• Constantly raise the bar, never satisfied that anything is good enough
• Have the ability to understand engineers, helping them to break ambiguous goals into solid plans
• Can balance pragmatism, excellence and agility with good logic
• Can prioritize and organize many concurrent threads across different initiatives whilst balancing risk.

You’ll drive the following responsibilities

• Partnering and collaborating with our engineers to understand their goals, needs and challenges
• Facilitating daily standups, planning, review and retrospective meetings
• Keeping the team on the right track, removing impediments and thinking ahead to identity potential barriers to advancement
• Understanding problems, people, processes and products
• Designing and documenting solutions that drive value across the delivery cycle (project plans etc.)

Position Requirements

• Proven ability to drive continuous improvement of processes and organizations towards excellence
• Demonstrated end-to-end project ownership, and ability to drive outcomes until full business value realized
• Strong and Pragmatic knowledge of agile approach and ability to apply it in specific circumstances.
• First class verbal and written communication skills, alongside exceptional organizational prowess
• Strong awareness of software development processes in order to understand the work engineers and product managers are undertaking and ensuring quality and deadlines are upheld.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5-plus years of experience in project management or related role
• Familiarity with Scrum or Agile methodology frameworks

Physical Requirements

For most of our roles, Bridgewater offers remote work flexibility, with most employees required to work on campus 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.

Compensation

The compensation band for this role is $150,000 – $250,000 per year, inclusive of base salary and discretionary bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 70% - 80% of this wage range. 

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 with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
• 401(k) plan with generous employer match
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
• Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks , and meditation rooms
• 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, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer.