Program Coordinator, Investor Talent

bridgewater89; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bridgewater Associates, a global macro investment firm, seeks a Program Coordinator for the Investor Talent team in New York City. You will manage calendars, meetings, agendas, and program materials, ensuring tight operational execution during peak periods.

You will build and refine processes, support interns and investor programs, and drive cross-functional collaboration with senior investors and team leads. The role emphasizes reliability, curiosity, and adaptability.

Qualifications

• Passion for running and improving processes; proactive and accountable with colleagues at all levels.
• 2+ years of coordination, project management, business operations, or similar in fast-paced environments.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize across multiple workstreams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with a range of stakeholders.
• Flexibility to work longer hours or onsite for key events.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Investor Talent team manager and leads to understand the broad mission and own calendar, meetings, agendas, and program sessions.
• Build and improve recurring processes that keep the team operating, including review cycles and knowledge management.
• Manage day-to-day execution of programs (e.g., summer internship, investor class) with timelines, owners, dependencies.
• Track engagement metrics and hold stakeholders accountable to commitments.
• Explore technology/AI to raise team productivity and connect workstreams for broader improvements.

Skills

Process improvement

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Written and verbal communication

Time management

Tools

SharePoint

Confluence

Job description

About the Alpha Engine Department

The Alpha Engine is responsible for Pure Alpha, Bridgewater's flagship alpha strategy launched in 1991. Our aim in Pure Alpha is to generate high and consistent returns, uncorrelated to markets and other managers over time. We pursue this by systematically deploying our fundamental understanding of markets and economies to trade long, short, and relative value across roughly 200 liquid public markets.

About Your Role

The Investor Talent team partners with investors across Bridgewater's investment departments on how the firm identifies, assesses, develops, and compensates its investors, at a time of significant change for the firm. The team is building as it goes, which leaves real room to shape how things run.

The Program Coordinator role is an execution-focused role at the center of how the Investor Talent team runs. You'll work directly with the team's manager, leads, and senior investors, bringing tight execution and project management skills to translate priorities into practical plans and drive investor programs from planning through delivery. Your book of work will shift with the calendar, with management of the team's operations and programs taking up the majority of your time during peak periods.

We are a nimble, hands-on team where every member contributes to the operational work through to the outcomes that make our programs successful (e.g., attending the events that you help shape and plan). We're looking for someone who takes pride in getting the details right, follows through reliably, and is equally willing to coordinate calendars, pull ongoing metrics, or improve and own a process. It's a fast-moving environment with a lot to learn, so curiosity and adaptability will go a long way. Over time, the right person will take on broader project management ownership, improve how our programs run, and manage increasingly complex workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Primary partner in running a tight talent ecosystem: Partner with the team's manager and leads to understand the broad mission of investor talent, and own coordination at the goal level rather than the task level. In practice, this means owning the calendar, meeting logistics, agendas, and program sessions and materials, and anticipating needs before you're asked.


• Owner of the team's management machines: Build, run, and continuously improve the recurring processes that keep the team operating, including review cycles, security, and operations. Keep meetings, follow-ups, and commitments on track across these processes. Own knowledge management across SharePoint, Confluence, and distribution lists, with room to shape how it works and evolves.


• Project manager for key programs: Own day-to-day execution of the summer internship and investor class, from scheduling and communications to materials and events. Translate priorities into clear plans with timelines, owners, and dependencies, and adapt as needs change. Anticipate risks, resolve bottlenecks, and hold stakeholders accountable to their commitments, escalating with sound judgment when needed. Track engagement metrics to assess how well each program is working.


• Key driver of technology and AI to raise team productivity: Use technology and AI to improve how the team works, from automating coordination and communications to streamlining reviews and programs. Proactively look for ways to run things better, and connect the dots across workstreams so improvements spread.

Minimum Qualifications

• You have a passion for running and improving processes and take pride in making others' worlds run smoothly. You are proactive and comfortable holding others accountable directly and respectfully, including more senior colleagues.


• 2+ years of experience in coordination, project management, business operations, or a similar role, in a fast-paced, stakeholder-facing environment


• Strong attention to detail and operational discipline, with the ability to prioritize across multiple concurrent workstreams and adapt to ambiguity


• Excellent written and verbal communication with a range of stakeholders


• Ability to work flexible hours as needed, e.g., some evenings or onsite additional days for key program events

Location

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week, primarily at our New York City campus.

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 imp