About the Role
We are seeking a Project Manager Leverager to join the Content Lab, a fast-moving team within Bridgewater. This hybrid role involves owning projects end-to-end and acting as a leverage partner to the Deputy Head of Content Lab, managing day-to-day logistics and coordination to ensure smooth team operations. Success requires understanding business goals and priorities to manage competing demands, exercise sound judgment, and escalate issues appropriately.
Responsibilities
- Act as leverage to the Deputy Head of Content Lab, handling day-to-day logistics in support of team goals and priorities.
- Coordinate team meetings and internal event logistics, aligned to business goals & priorities.
- Contribute to internal improvements and process initiatives for the team.
- Independently own end-to-end delivery for specific, defined projects within the Program Management Office, managing timelines, risks, and stakeholders.
- Build detailed project plans covering scope, sequencing, milestones, and deliverables.
- Drive accountability across functions and contributors without formal authority, adapting plans in real time as scope and priorities shift.
- Build and maintain stakeholder updates, status reporting, and decision logs.
- Exercise sound operational judgment within established procedures, escalating complex or ambiguous issues to leadership.
- Manage scheduling and logistics for the Deputy Head of Content Lab where it supports team priorities.
- Prioritize meeting requests and handle day-to-day administrative needs.
- Maintain records, organize files, and ensure easy access to important documents and information.
Requirements
- Experience acting as leverage to a team or function leader.
- Ability to understand team goals and priorities to effectively partner on driving initiatives to completion and keeping the team on track.
- Ability to know when to escalate ambiguous or complex issues to leadership.
- Experience managing timelines, scope, and stakeholders for defined projects or workstreams.
- Comfort coordinating across teams or functions without formal authority.
- Extensive experience managing high volume scheduling or calendars.
- High empathy, affinity for working as part of a team to support senior stakeholders.
- Effective written and oral communication skills with strong attention to detail.
- Excellent organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple responsibilities, tasks, and priorities with minimal error.
- Ability to independently anticipate problems and enjoys collaborative problem solving.
- Ability to think proactively and show initiative.
Skills
- Project management
- Business operations
- Logistics coordination
- Meeting coordination
- Process improvement
- Stakeholder management
- Risk management
- Scheduling
- Calendar management
- Written communication
- Oral communication
- Organizational skills
- Problem-solving
- Proactive thinking
- Initiative
Location
- Westport
- NYC
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Onsite (4 days)
Experience Level
- Leverage to a team or function leader
- Project management experience
Salary/Compensations
- $155,000-$250,000 (inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus)
- Expected base salary: 70% - 80% of wage range
Benefits
- Competitive suite of benefits
About the Company
- Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for 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 committed to excellence.
- We foster a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion to unlock complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.
- Our culture is anchored in excellence and constant improvement, tied to our mission.
- Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with markets and improving.
- Valuing truth means being transparent about decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest.
- Meaning in our work and relationships comes from the audacity of the mission and the joy of working alongside people who foster personal growth.
- The culture, like Bridgewater, is always evolving.
- In 1997, our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement.
- This evolved into a set of 300+ Principles.
- In 2022, Ray transitioned the company, re-underwriting and evolving principles with a focus on Meritocracy.
- Our culture and people are our most important edge.
- It takes all types to make Bridgewater great; we seek diverse, innovative thinkers.
- We develop people through honest examination of abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development.
- We provide opportunities that challenge and unlock potential.
Equal Opportunity
- Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer
