Trading Associate
About The Position
Bridgewater Associates is seeking a Trading Associate to join their Investment Implementation Department. This role is responsible for executing trades, generating and evaluating ideas to improve trading decisions, and collaborating with strategists and technologists to enhance processes. The Trading Associate will receive extensive formal and informal training to become proficient in Bridgewater's trade execution strategies, logic, and production systems. Core responsibilities include implementing desired exposures, developing an understanding of the outside world through market interaction, and evolving execution strategies. Traders at Bridgewater do not have discretion but execute desired exposures using a systematic set of rules and work to improve these rules through market understanding. The team is based in CT and trades global markets, with shifts potentially covering Asian, European, or New York market hours. A deep sense of intellectual curiosity is required to understand market structure and drive the evolution of the systematic process.
Requirements
- Possess a BA/BS (or are on track to graduate in 2025-2026), with a quality academic record, from an accredited undergraduate institution
- Analytical, highly logical, and structured in your thinking
- Excellent communication skills and can interact with counterparties and colleagues clearly and effectively
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable working nontraditional hours to implement our trades in Asia and European markets, and are excited about having a unique position at the nucleus of BW’s trading activity through close interaction with the markets
- Deeply interested in understanding financial markets, market structure, and game theory
- Can think critically about outcomes and transform perceptions into strategic changes
- Have a knack for automation and naturally seek ways to improve processes
- Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership in everything you do
- Demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches
- Be driven, confident, and goal-oriented
- Be 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
Responsibilities
- Executing Bridgewater’s desired exposures according to our systematic, proprietary processes
- Contributing to Bridgewater’s understanding of market microstructure, transaction costs, market participants, and products in the markets
- Working with technologists and researchers to construct new investment implementation systems and execution strategies or overhaul old ones
- Driving initiatives to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the systems you own
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with our liquidity providers and external vendors
- Work together with our analytics team to oversee our transaction costs and execution outcomes
- Perform some engineering work to evolve our strategies and system logic and to conduct analysis
Benefits
- Competitive suite of benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
