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.

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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.

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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.

 

About the Team

The goal of the Research department is to fundamentally understand how the global economy works.  Embedded within the Research department is a uniquely talented technology team that builds and manages the tools that allow our macro economists to conduct their research and understand the world’s economies at a level we believe no other firm is capable of.  These tools and platforms tackle problems from data ingestion, to storage, to data modelling/visualizations, to signal creation to name but a few.

 

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 identify potential barriers to advancement.
• Understanding problems, people, processes, and products.
• Designing and documenting solutions that drive value across the delivery cycle (project plans etc.)

 

Location 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.

Minimum 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.
• 1-5 years of experience in project management or related role
• Familiarity with Scrum or Agile methodology frameworks.

Why Choose Bridgewater? 

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a