Data Sourcing & Strategy Associate

Bridgewater Associates•Westport, CT

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Data Sourcing & Strategy Associate will be part of Bridgewater’s Research, Data Strategy and Acquisition function, working at the front edge of the firm’s Investment Data practice. The role supports the execution and evolution of Relationship Management, Supplier Knowledge Management, and Internal Stakeholder Management. It involves engaging with investors, associates, engineers, external vendors and data sources to improve the firm’s understanding of external offerings and vendors’ understanding of Bridgewater’s needs, quality expectations, and business alignment. The associate will work across investment workflows, sourcing and supplier challenges, market matching, internal advocacy, and vendor engagement strategy. They will communicate assessments to investment professionals, vendors and service providers, Management, Compliance, Legal, and Finance, and collaborate across the firm and with existing and prospective vendors. The role includes on-the-job training through structured engagement with the external world, live apprenticeship, and work alongside experienced colleagues. The associate will participate in the growth of the practice and may, over time, represent the firm in important vendor, counterparty, and provider management discussions. The anticipated onsite schedule is three days per week at Bridgewater’s Westport, Connecticut campus and one day per week at its New York City campus. The wage range is $170,000–$225,000, inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus; expected base salary is 70%–80% of that range. Bridgewater does not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or four-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution.
3–7 years of relevant work experience at an investment bank, vendor or service provider, or asset management firm.
Experience in at least two of the following: Relationship Management, Supplier Knowledge Management, or Internal Stakeholder Management.
Curiosity, practicality, analytical ability, capability, and willingness to fail, learn, and engage with diverse international people and processes.
Ability to manage a high volume of work across diverse functions and competing priorities while communicating and executing effectively.
Systems-oriented problem-solving approach, including an inclination to improve systems.
High degree of personal responsibility and ownership.
Willingness to work across levels, from basic task execution through complex, multi-month and multi-modal efforts.

Nice To Haves

Experience with capital markets, market, or research data.

Responsibilities

Execute across the systems, sourcing, supply chains, and internal demand used to acquire, provide, and maintain data for investment requests, helping investors clarify unspecified or overly prescribed needs.
Understand known and unknown external offerings, identify potential market matches and indications of interest, and discern and select suitable structures from the external market.
Own investment requests where the investor or colleague cannot clearly specify what they need, including requests that are underspecified or overspecified.
Understand and communicate the status of specific sourcing portfolio components and knowledge bases of passes, no-bids, and deferred opportunities.
Build, maintain, and rapidly sort inbound possibilities, candidate sources, and existing data sources and services in the sourcing portfolio.
Improve and execute the machine-learning and AI layer being introduced into external discovery and matching processes, designed from first principles.
Create and document initiatives to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the practice’s systems.
Continuously evaluate and improve processes for sourcing, vetting, and delivering content at scale.
Advocate with existing and potential vendors to improve the quality of their pitches.
Communicate assessments to investment professionals, vendors and service providers, Management, Compliance, Legal, and Finance.
Collaborate with colleagues across the firm and with existing and prospective vendors.