The posting
About the Asia Strategies Department
This role sits in our Asia Strategies department, whose goal is to continue our growth down the journey of being the premier investment management firm in Asia. This entails developing great investment strategies reflecting our expertise, generating alpha in the markets, researching and publishing our understanding of the macroeconomic environment, and designing solutions to help our clients invest across the region.
About Your Role
The Management Coordinator role has a wide breadth of responsibilities, spanning across multiple areas to ensure the team's strategic goals are translated in to smooth and efficient day-to-day process management. In this role, you will support BW’s Senior Investors or Operations Leaders and their teams, getting exposure to many different areas of work while learning the business and getting things done. Your responsibilities will include managing the day-to-day administrative and executive support needs for the individual and broader Asia Strategies team, and will scale into taking on broader operational and management process responsibilities.
This role requires someone who is passionate about managing processes in a reliable manner, while also ensuring the senior leader’s world runs smoothly at every level. Successful candidates will thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment where one needs to juggle multiple responsibilities while being an excellent facilitator, communicator, and proactive partner.
You will drive the following responsibilities:
- Leadership & Team Priority Management Work with BW Senior Investors or Operations Leaders and their teams to ensure long term goals and priorities translate to the day-to-day and are executed effectively
- Calendar & Travel Manage fast-moving calendars and shifting meetings across time zones, partnering with support teams across the department and company Provide coordination support and planning for international travel, including booking flights, managing conference agendas, and coordinating meeting and events overseas
- Management Machines & Operations Owns management machine hygiene across the team, including running COO team meetings, owning and running existing processes and standing up new ones where there are gaps Own all operational support functions to enable the team’s business goals – such as onboarding / offboarding talent, team specific operational policies, team agenda management, business trip support and coordination, team event planning, talent assessment processes, etc.
- Space & Workplace Coordinate office space and seating arrangements for executives and teams. Partner with relevant workplace/facilities teams to address space needs Own the team community vision, plan events, maintain budget
You will be a click for the role if you:
- Have a passion and knack for organization, planning, prioritization, and can solve problems effectively
- Derive satisfaction from making others’ worlds run smoothly
- Are a ‘big picture’ thinker who is able to focus on the goal at hand, not only tasks
- Thrive in a dynamic environment and have a track record of ability to manage and execute on many concurrent threads across different initiatives
- Distill information, prioritize well and summarize key points and action items for those you support
- Have high empathy; you can read the room and understand people well
- Enjoy working as part of a team to support senior executives
- Possess a “can-do” attitude and have the desire and willingness to roll up your sleeves and jump into whatever is needed
- Are highly determined, consistently willing to push through to get things done.
- Can communicate and respond in a timely manner
- Have the intuition on when to efficiently raise and escalate problems or roadblocks
- Are able to consistently step back and improve your way of operating
- Humble and open-minded, eager to learn and take on more as the responsibilities over time
The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus.
Minimum Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in administrative support, business operations, project management, or similar type of role
- Ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders through excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to operate excellently in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
- Ability to prioritize and work cross functionally when managing several concurrent threads.
- Ability to work with and manage various stakeholders in service of a common goal.
- Experience running and improving operational processes
- Ability to work flexible hours across timezones (e.g. some evenings) as required to match the needs of the team(s) you support
While not required for the role, experience in financial services or a start-up environment, as well as proficiency in Mandarin, are preferred.
About Bridgewater
Bridgewater Associates is a global macro investment firm, founded in 1975, whose mission is to develop a fundamental, cause-and-effect understanding of how markets and economies work—and translate that understanding into insights, returns, and solutions that help the world’s leading institutional investors solve their most important investment challenges.
Over five decades, we have codified our fundamental understanding into a systematic investment process—integrating human judgment with machine intelligence with the goal of applying our thinking consistently, testing it against reality, and continuously improving decision-making over time. We believe this has created a unique platform for applying AI within our process, positioning us at the frontier of integrating technology with investment decision-making.
In financial markets—where reality is constantly evolving and outcomes are uncertain—sustained excellence requires continuous learning and improvement. Our culture—anchored in radical truth and transparency—helps us learn faster.
Find more information about Bridgewater on our website.
Our Culture
Bridgewater’s culture is anchored in the pursuit of excellence—tied directly to our mission. In financial markets, where the base case is failure and reality is constantly evolving, winning requires continuous learning and improvement. Truth is our most essential tool for improvement, and transparency helps us get closer to truth because it places many eyes on our decisions, problems, and mistakes. By understanding reality clearly, we can identify the gap between where we are and where we want to be—and use that knowledge to learn and get better. Our system that supports this way of being is an idea meritocracy, where we commit to finding and rewarding the best ideas regardless of hierarchy.
Operating in these ways is hard. Finding truth and learning through it is inherently a high-friction cycle. It’s possible because we share a few core values: a commitment to honesty, high ownership, deeply meaningful work and relationships, and building Bridgewater as a big tent where vast differences are welcomed. These values create the common denominator that binds us together in good times and bad.
Benefits
One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits, including health insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, and other fringe benefits. Find more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website.
Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.
Sponsorship
Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
Compensation
The wage range for this role is $120,000-$165,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.
This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment.
Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer
