Partner Operations Manager Jobs in Middlebury, VT

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most 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 who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

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Our Culture

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard - it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it's the engine that powers everything else.

About the Client Service Department

The goal of Client Service is to build and grow meaningful relationships with the world's largest, most sophisticated investors and help clients achieve their goals through high quality return streams and tailored insights. To this end, we deeply understand the global pools of capital, develop strategies to effectively develop relationships, and partner with clients on their most difficult investment and portfolio construction problems. We help our clients broaden their understanding of our investment process, strategies and performance as well as deepen their understanding of financial markets more generally.

About Your Role

The Content Lab at Bridgewater is responsible for the publication, editorial direction and distribution of the firm's investment content, including flagship publications such as the Bridgewater Daily Observations, the annual Strategic Report, and Quarterly Letters.

We are seeking a Project Manager to join as a leverage partner to the Deputy Head of Content Lab - handling the business operations, logistics, and coordination that keep the team running smoothly. Success requires detail-orientation, strong logic, operational excellence, ownership mentality, client orientation, high standards of care for work and people, sound judgment, and the ability to navigate a rapidly changing environment fluidly.  

You will drive the following responsibilities:

Project management and business operations in partnership with the Deputy Head of Content Lab and the Program Management Office: 

• Act as leverage to the Deputy Head of Content Lab, handling day-to-day logistics in support of team goals /priorities 
• Independently own end-to-end delivery for specific, defined projects: manage timelines, risks, and stakeholders, building detailed project plans that cover scope, sequencing, milestones, and deliverables 
• Manage scheduling and logistics for the Deputy Head of Content Lab: prioritizing meeting requests and handling day-to-day administrative needs 
• Coordinate team meetings and event logistics, aligned to business goals and priorities  
• Drive accountability across functions and contributors, adapting plans in real time as scope and priorities shift 
• Build and maintain stakeholder updates and status reporting; exercise sound operational judgement within established procedures, escalating complex or ambiguous issues to leadership 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Experience acting as leverage to a team or function leader
• Ability to understand team strategy, goals, and priorities to effectively partner on driving initiatives to completion and keeping the team on track, including knowing when to escalate ambiguous or complex issues to leadership 
• Experience managing timelines, scope, and stakeholders for defined projects or workstreams 
• Capability working and coordinating across a wide range of teams and functions
• 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
• Ability to independently anticipate problems and enjoys collaborative problem solving 
• Ability to think proactively and independently and show initiative 
• Strong fit with the Bridgewater culture

Physical Requirements

This role will follow a hybrid schedule, with an onsite requirement of 4 days. Required on-site locations and schedules vary by team, but will either be based in Westport, NYC or involve some degree of alternating between campuses.

Wage Range

The wage range for this role is $155,000-$250,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 70% - 80% of this wage range. 

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

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.

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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.

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. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer