Senior Administrative Assistant

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.

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

Technology Department

The Technology team at Bridgewater engineers systems to understand the world. These systems synthesize and industrialize our global understanding into a hive mind of macroeconomic knowledge which enables us to educate and collaborate with the world’s most influential central banks and policy makers and carefully and strategically manage the world’s most important capital. Our technologists are engineering highly available, high performing and highly secure cloud platforms and infrastructure which support and scale our investing operations.

About the Role:

We are currently seeking a Senior Administrative Assistant who will support two of Bridgewater’s Senior Technology Leaders by liaising with internal and external stakeholders on their behalf, fielding and prioritizing incoming requests, managing their commitments and calendars, and ensuring broad organization and coordination across their responsibilities. This role demands a highly organized candidate who can juggle multiple, sometimes competing, priorities seamlessly. And, given the sensitive nature of the information the team frequently engages on, unwavering professionalism, absolute discretion, and exceptional judgement are all non-negotiables.

Key Responsibilities

Administrative Support:

• Provide comprehensive administrative support to two technology executives, acting as a proactive gatekeeper to maximize executives' time and contribute to efficient team operations.
• Represent the executive team, serving as a primary point of contact for all of their engagements and communications, ensuring professionalism, efficiency and confidentiality.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Maintain strict confidentiality and exercise discretion in managing sensitive information, including executive correspondence, personnel matters, and strategic initiatives.
• Anticipate the needs of leadership to enhance their productivity and effectiveness. Handle ad-hoc requests and perform additional duties as assigned.

Calendar & Meeting Management:

• Proactively manage and prioritize executives’ calendars, scheduling internal and external meetings efficiently.
• Manage daily calendars for multiple executives, showcasing flexibility and problem-solving skills to adjust and prioritize schedules in response to last-minute changes.
• Prepare meeting agendas and track follow-ups to ensure timely execution.
• Arrange and manage internal team meetings, offsite meetings, external team events (dinners, celebrations, parties)

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years of experience supporting senior management in an administrative capacity. Preference for experience with multiple senior managers.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills with strong attention to detail
• Excellent organizational skills and an ability to juggle and execute against multiple responsibilities, tasks, and/or priorities with high degree of accuracy
• Ability to anticipate and independently avoid or solve problems
• Agility; capable of adapting to unexpected changes and rapidly evolving situations
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook and Word as well as collaborative technologies such as Slack, Zoom etc.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

Physical Requirements: The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is 2 days per week at Bridgewater's campus in Westport, CT, with the option to work offsite/remote on other days.

Compensation: The wage range for this role is $100,000 - $150,0000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80-90% 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 including:

Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services 401(k) plan with generous employer match

Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package

Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare

Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing

Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks , and meditation rooms An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups

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.