Project Manager, Alpha Engine Strategist Group

Bridgewater Associates•New York, NY

15d•$150,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The mission of the Alpha Engine Strategist Group is to maintain a resilient and profitable Pure Alpha at scale by managing clients and prospects to desired commercial outcomes. The driving force behind this mission is our Strategist Ecosystem, the distributed leadership model through which we define what needs to happen at every level of our org such that we are engaging the right clients on the right priorities with the right people and the right content and ensuring quality holds throughout. This role is the dedicated owner of the Strategist Ecosystem and will design and run the machines behind each functional area and act as the connective tissue across them. The Strat ecosystem is a net new design for our team, and this role is critical to operationalizing it successfully. You'll report to the management partner of the AE Strat Group, who will be your primary point of triangulation and sign-off on design, and you will partner directly with each Strategist in running their individual functional areas. Beyond the Strategists, you'll work closely with Analysts, Strategist Coordinators, Client Service, and Research teams where the ecosystem intersects with them.

Requirements

3-5 years of experience in a role that required you to design operational processes from scratch, manage projects or programs, own and run business operations, or a comparable function, ideally in a fast-moving or ambiguous environment.
A track record of managing multiple concurrent workstreams without letting any one of them slip in quality.
Experience partnering with senior stakeholders where your credibility, not your formal authority, was what got things done.
Strong written and verbal communication; a meaningful part of this role is translating what's happening across the ecosystem such that others can act on it.
Humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches.
Driven, confident, and goal-oriented.
Honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback.
Constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence.

Nice To Haves

You think in systems, not just instances. You get satisfaction out of designing structure and repeatable process and want to build the muscle to do so in a highly complex, fast-moving space.
You are high ownership. When you see a gap nobody else is covering, you close it rather than waiting to be asked, and you reliably deliver without reminders or being chased.
You sustain pace across many things at once. This ecosystem has several functional areas moving on different cadences simultaneously, and you hold quality and precision across all of them at all times.
You are comfortable and energized operating within ambiguity. This role has no established playbook to lean on, so you're someone who raises your hand to ask questions, goes and gets what you need rather than waiting for it to be handed to you, and is comfortable raising perceptions and ideas before you’re confident they’re right.
You build influence through the quality of your judgment and your follow-through, strengthening your credibility and efficacy through time.
You're curious about Bridgewater's core business and how this group engages clients and prospects and communicates our views.

Responsibilities

Operational design: You will collaborate directly with the manager and the Strategists to internalize the goals of each area, design a machine to deliver them, evolve it through time, and establish connections between them.
Functional ownership: You will be a trusted voice on the state of our ecosystem and its component parts, meaningfully guide the overall direction and priorities, maintain a precise synthesis on how things are going, and surface/address issues before they become problems.
Operational Execution: You will own the full cadence of recurring mechanisms across the ecosystem — annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and ad hoc — keeping the team on track and working fluidly and working through blockers/problems that may be getting in the way.
Ecosystem Status & Reporting: You will maintain a standing view of how the ecosystem is running – health of each area, overall priorities and problems, status of key mechanisms, upcoming milestones – and bubble up that synthesis to the manager and more broadly to the Strat group.