Senior Manager, Data Implementation

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 to 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

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 every day, 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. This 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 Implementation Department

The Investment Implementation department is a community of diverse investment professionals whose mission is to implement our investment strategies and client portfolios excellently. Our department is responsible for ensuring the excellent implementation of our systematic investment approach, from raw data to executed trades, with processes and logic that reflect the full richness of our investment insight, executed with a near-zero error rate, and engineered and orchestrated in a way that facilitates oversight and compounding. This is an investment department, owning the investment outcomes, and the mandate includes both the ‘run’ responsibility and the ‘transform’ responsibility, meaning daily operations as well as overtime renovation of our systems.

We fulfill our mission by applying four operating principles:

• Understand and deliver internal client needs. Partner with our internal clients to understand and offer implementation designs and deliver solutions, while proactively educating and communicating outcomes to ACLs (Asset Class Leads) and CIOs.

• Own our investment intent. Own our investment intent in full, in letter and spirit.

• Continuously improve. Have and evolve an investment pipeline to meet current and future internal client needs.

• Systematically and relentlessly deliver quality outcomes . Apply our best logic systematically, discipline, expertise, and controls to every signal, position, and trade in every market.

About the Team

The Investment Data Implementation team, part of the Investment Implementation Department, is responsible for owning, deeply understanding, and delivering data that fuel Bridgewater’s investment systems.

The team is responsible for two critical business functions. As part of the research process, the data implementation team must deeply understand the needs of our investors and then discover, onboard, and assess data sources against those needs. The team is also responsible for owning Bridgewater’s data and signals generation system, ensuring that the investment intent is achieved through daily data releases and market action.

About Your Role

The Senior Manager role is responsible for delivering the investment needs of our CIOs and asset class leads. It is an action-oriented responsibility, where the day-to-day work directly drives Bridgewater’s investment signal generation.

You will work closely with the Head of Investment Data and Signals Implementation, the Department Head, and our investment leadership to deliver Bridgewater’s investment operations.

You’ll independently lead the team, demonstrating strong judgment, initiative, and follow-through. You will deliver the capabilities that facilitate the continued expansion of investment data that is needed to support investor alpha generation and the performance of Bridgewater’s investment products.

You will be a great fit for this role if you:

• Are passionate about leading and developing data teams to achieve results that exceed the sum of individual contributions.

• Value developing talent and fostering an exceptional employee experience.

• Thrive in dynamic environments and enjoy solving complex business challenges.

• Are a systematic thinker 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

• Communicate clearly and build strong relationships across diverse teams.

• Have a strong attention to detail and a track record of driving high performance.

• Are excited to contribute to strategic vision, planning and organizational growth.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Investment data implementation team to quality, cost, and risk outcomes for Bridgewaters’s investment systems

• Lead and develop a team to deliver the exponentially growing data needs of our investment organization

• Scale Bridgewater’s data capability to meet the evolving financial data industry needs (both external and internal) through improving core business process quality and efficiency

• Lead with independence and sound judgment, resolving problems quickly and effectively while escalating when needed.

• Contribute to strategic planning and organizational growth by bringing a consulting mindset and analytical rigor.

We are looking for candidates with the following minimum qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in data management, data operations, or data platform environments.

• 5+ years operational management experience, preferably data and/or investment operations

• Managed a team size of a minimum 5 - 10 FTEs, including track record of developing talent

• Minimum 3-5+ years of experience in core data workflows (Data ingestion, Data Validation, Process Orchestration, Derived Data Transformation, Derived Data Validation, Data Exposure)

• Proven track record of delivering data for senior business customers (e.g., business line heads, COO, CEO). Experience should span proven delivery / implementation as well as evolution

• Prior management of full budget inclusive of data licensing, organization, and technology related costs

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution

Physical Requirements

• The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our Westport, CT campus.

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 with opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

Compensation Band

• The expected annual base salary for this position is $200,000 - $300,000. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus.

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