Portfolio Associate

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 over time 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, 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 Your Role   

• You will operate the systematized investment logic we use to create ideal portfolios for our clients.   

• You will oversee a set of processes that ingests updated market data along with our view from our research department, applies portfolio construction logic, risk controls, and client specific constraints to determine those ideal portfolios.  

• You will oversee our logic for choosing which instruments we want to hold and then deliver the set of trades necessary to implement our portfolios to our trading department.  

• You will regularly communicate your understanding and assessment to a diverse group of people, including senior investment managers, traders, and developers.   

• You will partner with technologists and researchers to constantly improve our processes, focusing on increasing efficiency or the implementation of new logic or portfolios.  

You will drive the following responsibilities:   

• Executing and overseeing the systematized logic we use to generate client portfolios and trades every day  

• Working with technologists and researchers to construct new investment implementation systems or overhaul old ones  

• Driving initiatives to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the systems you own  

• Evolving the methods and best practices used by the broader investment community   

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Are analytical, highly logical, and structured  

• Are deeply interested in understanding financial markets  

• 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  

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

Minimum Qualifications  

• 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution with an anticipated graduation date in Spring/Summer 2027  

• Relevant internship experience at an investment bank or asset management firm  

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 $150,000 - $200,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus.  

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