Data Sourcing & Strategy Associate

Bridgewater; Westport (CT); On-site; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Bridgewater Associates in Westport, CT is seeking a role focused on Research, Data Strategy, and Acquisition within the Investment Data practice. You will engage with investors, vendors, and internal stakeholders to improve understanding of external offerings and align data strategies with Bridgewater’s investment processes. The role involves collaborating with teams across the firm and external partners to refine sourcing, vetting, and delivery of content.

Qualifications

• A four-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution.
• 3–7 years of relevant work experience at an investment bank, vendor/service provider, or asset management firm.
• Experience in at least two of the following: Relationship Management, Supplier Knowledge Management, or Internal Stakeholder Management.
• Experience with Capital Markets data is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Execute across the systems, sourcing, and internal demand to acquire and maintain inbound fuel for Investment requests.
• Understand and match offerings, creating market indications of interest and selecting external structure.
• Own Investment Asks landings that are unspecified or over-specified.
• Communicate the state of sourcing portfolio components, passes, no bids, and deferred opportunities.
• Build and sort inbound possibilities, candidate sources, and existing data sources and services in the portfolio.
• Improve the ML/AI layer for external discovery and matching.
• Document initiatives to raise quality, reliability, and efficiency of the practice’s systems.
• Continuously evaluate processes for sourcing, vetting, and delivering content at scale.
• Advocate with vendors to improve pitch quality.

Skills

Relationship Management

Supplier Knowledge Management

Internal Stakeholder Management

Education

4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution

Job description

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight andpartnershipfor 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 — usingcutting-edgetechnology tovalidateandexecute ontimeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment to 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.

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here .

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 smartereveryday, 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 knowwhat'strue about your problems and opportunities, you candeterminehow 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'sonly 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 whichremainsour 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’sthe engine that powers everything else.

About Your Role

In this role, you will be an integral part of the Research, Data Strategy and Acquisition function at Bridgewater. Operating at the front edge of our Investment Data practice,you willbe part of the execution and evolution of our Relationship Management, Supplier KnowledgeManagement, andInternal Stakeholder Management disciplines. Youwillengagewith investors, associates, engineers, and external vendors and sources to improve our understanding of external offerings and vendors’ understanding of our needs, quality management, and business alignment.

You will beimmersed inour workflows, investment questions, supplier challenges, market making and matching,internal marketing/advocacy, and vendor engagement strategy. You will regularly communicate your understanding and assessments to a diverse group of stakeholders, including investment professionals, vendorsand service providers,Management, Compliance, Legal, and Finance. You willpartner across the firmandwith vendors(existing and prospective),collaborating with hundreds of individualsover the course of a year.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Executing across the systems, sourcing, supply chains, and internal demand we use to acquire, provide andmaintainthe inboundfuel for the Investment requests that arrive unspecified or overly prescribed, helping the investor clarify what they need.
• Dynamically understanding the world of offerings, known and unknown to Bridgewater, creating potential market matches, indications of interest, discerning and selecting structure from the external world.
• Owning the Investment Asks that land unspecified or over-specified, where the investor or colleague cannot say what they need.
• Understanding and effectively communicating the state of specific components of the sourcing portfolio, and our knowledge bases of passes, no bids, and deferred opportunities.
• Building, maintaining, and rapidly sorting inbound possibilities, candidate sources and existing data sources and services in the sourcing portfolio.
• Improving and executing on the ML/AI layer we are rapidly introducing into our external discovery and matching process, designed from first principles.
• Creating and documenting initiatives to raise the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the practice’s systems.
• Continuously evaluating and enhancing processes for sourcing, vetting, and delivering content processesatscale.
• Advocating with existing and potential vendors to improve the quality of their pitches.

You will be a fit for the role if you:

• Are curious, practical, analytical, capable, and willing to fail and learn from failing, in broad engagement with a diverse international set of peopleand processesboth inside and outside of Bridgewater.
• Are able tomanage a high volume of work across diverse functions and competing priorities, while effectively communicating, executing and marking to market.
• Think in terms of systems and naturally look for ways to solve problems through the evolution of those systems.
• Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership in everything you do.
• Are willing tooperateacross all levels of work, starting from basic task execution and evolving into complex, multi-monthand multi-modal efforts.

In this role, you will grow with us by:

• Undergoing an on-the-job training program that includes structured engagement with the external world, live apprenticeship, and working with highly experienced colleagues.
• Actively engaging and grappling with the growth and evolution of the practice.
• Having your voice and perspective heard, and over timerepresentingthe firm in important vendor, counterparty, and provider management discussions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution
• 3-7years of relevant work experience at an investment bank, vendor/serviceprovideror asset management firm
• Experience in at least two of the following: Relationship Management, Supplier Knowledge Management (understanding what suppliers and sources can offer, beyond their past performance), or Internal Stakeholder Management
• Experience with Capital Marketsmarket or research datais a strongplus

Physical Requirements

Theanticipatedonsite requirement for this role is three days per week at our Westport, CT campus and one day per week at our NYC campus.

Compensation Band

Thewage range for this roleis $170,000-$225,000inclusive of base salary anddiscretionary 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 provideyou withopportunities 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. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here .

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 changeany and allterms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities,qualificationsand 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