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.