Product Structuring and Implementation Specialist

Overview

Product Structuring and Implementation Specialist — Westport, CT & New York City, NY

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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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 the Product Development and Implementation Team

The Product Development and Implementation team plays a pivotal role in helping our largest clients with their Bridgewater portfolios. The team explores and launches new products and custom portfolios for our clients, serving as a bridge between our senior executives, clients, client relationship teams, portfolio management, legal, and operations teams. Responsible for the day-to day operational support of new client onboarding and existing client mandates, the team is a nexus between various parts of Bridgewater.

This role offers a great opportunity to learn about the asset management business and Bridgewater’s approach to client management, product development, and product implementation while working with leaders across the organization.

About the Role

As a Product Structuring and Implementation Specialist, you will help us achieve our mission by collaborating with our client, investment, and implementation teams at Bridgewater to execute on client projects related to launching and managing our funds, custom mandates, and products. The role has three broad areas of responsibility: (1) driving cross departmental initiatives related to launching new funds and products, (2) partnering on the creation and evolution of custom portfolios for our largest clients, and (3) serving as an expert for our clients in areas related to portfolio structuring and implementation.

This person will collaborate with investment and implementation teams at Bridgewater, as well as clients, to execute projects. Those projects can range from questions about how we manage client portfolios, to building and launching custom investment mandates. In addition, portfolio specialists will partner on strategic initiatives that cut across our book of business or across Bridgewater departments. The ideal candidate must possess a balance of analytical, problem-solving, and project management capabilities, as well as have keen market and commercial awareness.

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You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Partner with clients, client teams, and professionals across various Bridgewater departments (portfolio management, legal, and operations) to launch client portfolios, manage transitions and negotiate guidelines
• In partnership with Investment teams, shape and drive the product and commercial strategy for new and existing Bridgewater investments
• Collaborate with the team and other departments to support the project management and implementation of new product launches
• Support the on-boarding of new investment mandates, including…