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Networking & Leadership Opportunities with Bridgewater

A networking event with the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. Get a behind-the-scenes look at Bridgewater’s technology organization, an inclusive team that’s engineering highly available, high performing, and highly secure cloud platforms and infrastructure to scale Bridgewater’s investing…

Hosted by Bridgewater Associates In partnership with PowerToFly
Virtual Invite-only

About this event

A networking event with the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at Bridgewater’s technology organization, an inclusive team that’s engineering highly available, high performing, and highly secure cloud platforms and infrastructure to scale Bridgewater’s investing operations.

Meet a few of Bridgewater’s top women leaders and get the inside scoop on how they support some of the world’s most influential central banks and policymakers.

→ Tune in to grow your network, gain career advice from fellow technology leaders, and hear about current topics in financial tech.

  • Hear an honest, inside perspective on working at Bridgewater.
  • Learn about Engineering Manager & Tech Lead opportunities.
  • Discuss trends within financial technology.

Agenda:

  • 5:00 PM ET - PowerToFly Kickoff
  • 5:05 PM ET - Welcome & Keynote Address from Robin Anil, Engineering Manager
  • 5:15 PM ET - Tech Talk with Suri Bandler, Software Engineer
  • 5:25 PM ET - Panel Discussion & Audience Q+A Featuring:
  • 5:55 PM ET - Closing Remarks from PowerToFly
  • 6:00 PM ET - Optional Breakout Sessions
  • 6:30 PM ET - Event Concludes

About Bridgewater Associates: Bridgewater Associates is the world’s largest hedge fund, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. Their 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.

About PowerToFly: PowerToFly is a women-run platform that works with companies to identify skilled professionals for networking and recruiting opportunities. Over the past few years, we’ve produced 1,000+ events across the world with brands like Facebook, Spotify, Microsoft, and Deloitte, resulting in countless hires.


Agenda

All times ET. Subject to change.

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Meet the speakers

Robin Anil

Robin Anil

Engineering Manager

Robin joined Bridgewater just over a year ago as Engineering Manager. His past career experiences have included stops at Tock as Director of Engineering, Google as Staff Software Engineer/Tech Lead, and Yahoo as Senior Software Engineer.

Perrin Mouat

Perrin Mouat

Technical Project Manager

Perrin joined Bridgewater 17 years ago. She currently serves as Technical Project Manager.

Bill Farrell

Bill Farrell

Senior Recruiting Associate

Bill has been Team Lead, Talent Acquisition, Technology for eight years with Bridgwater. Previously, he worked as RPO Recruiting Manager at Morgan Stanley, Dun & Bradstreet, and Director, RPO Implementation & Recruiting Manager at Allegis Group Services.

Larissa Ross

Larissa Ross

Recruiting Associate

Larissa joined Bridgewater two years ago as Recruiting Associate. Previous career experiences include Content Writer at Amendo and Substitute Teacher at Cornwall Central School District in Cornwell, New York.

Suri Bandler

Suri Bandler

Software Engineer

Suri joined the Bridgewater team as Software Engineer in 2019. In 2018, she interned at the company, developing foundational capabilities for client-facing portfolio construction software. Suri is well-versed in JavaScript, React, Redux, and Puppeteer, to name a few.

About the company

Bridgewater Associates

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.

Diversity & Inclusion

Our values — meaningful work and meaningful relationships, independent thinking, and creating an environment where the best ideas win — naturally lead us to embrace diversity and treasure our differences. Given our mission to have the deepest possible understanding of global economies, we must find, retain, and grow the best talent across gender identity, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gained experiences, and more.

We have a dedicated diversity and inclusion team reporting directly to our Co-CEOs, Nir Bar Dea and Mark Bertolini, several affinity groups to empower our diverse communities, and a senior council charged with continuing to make Bridgewater a vibrant, inclusive community.

A few of our affinity groups include: the Bridgewater Black Network (BBN), the Women's Influence Network (WIN), the Bridgewater Hispanic + Latinx Network (HLN), Asian Affinity Network (AAN) and the Bridgewater LGBTQ + Ally Network (BProud).

Why Choose Bridgewater?

The unifying experience at Bridgewater is meaningful work and meaningful relationships — the unique and lasting personal bonds forged out of a purposeful, rigorous, and inclusive work environment. The culture of our firm emphasizes high standards and continuous learning and improvement.

We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development, centered around a management philosophy described in founder Ray Dalio’s Principles: Life and Work.

Explore our Careers in Technology & Investment.

Benefits

Having world-class benefits is one of our top priorities and is born out of our principles — we believe it is critical to take care of the people who have chosen to devote themselves to our common mission. As such, Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:

  1. Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
  2. Concierge medical services, access to second opinion physician consultation, and access to tele-medicine — all provided at no cost to employees
  3. Competitive 401(k) plan that offers immediate eligibility and vesting, with generous employer match
  4. Equal fully paid parental bonding/care-giving time for all new parents with additional paid medical recovery time for those who give birth
  5. Support for family planning, including financial assistance for adoption and egg freezing costs, in addition to generous fertility benefits through the medical plan
  6. A competitive PTO package, unlimited sick days and remote work flexibility
  7. Free transportation services between New York City and our Connecticut offices
  8. Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals, healthy snacks, and meditation rooms
  9. An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups
Join Us

If you’re someone who enjoys creating innovative ways to reach ambitious goals, who is open to and energized by receiving honest feedback, and who likes asking “why?” - we encourage you to explore our open opportunities!

Click here for a series of videos and materials to learn more about our culture.

We don’t just look for people who can do a particular job. We look for people we want to share our lives with.

More about Bridgewater Associates →

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