About the Legal & Regulatory Group

The Legal & Regulatory Group is responsible for partnering with Bridgewater businesses to protect the legal and regulatory interests of the firm and its clients and managing legal and regulatory risk to ensure that employees act in accordance with the highest legal and ethical standards. Our group maintains in-house expertise in many areas, including corporate, investment management, private funds, intellectual property, employment and commercial law and compliance. The team works closely with a broad range of departments within the firm and manages relationships with external counsel and regulatory consultants.

About Your Role

The Senior Compliance Officer ("Senior Compliance Officer") will be expected to be a leader within Bridgewater's compliance function on day one. Together with other members of the team, the Senior Compliance Officer will be responsible for ensuring compliance with Bridgewater's regulatory obligations. While expected to contribute across all areas of the compliance program, the Senior Compliance Officer's primary responsibility will be owning Bridgewater's regulatory reporting and change management processes from start to finish.

This role is about doing as much as it is about thinking and advising. The Senior Compliance Officer will be personally accountable for making sure the right filings are made accurately, excellently, and on time. Candidates should expect to spend meaningful time in the details of the filings themselves, not solely advising others on how to prepare them.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Preparing, reviewing, and submitting Bridgewater's regulatory filings and reports, and personally driving each one through to completion, including gathering and validating underlying data and resolving issues as they arise

• Building and running the processes, controls, and methodology used to produce accurate filings and manage regulatory interactions

• Scanning the regulatory horizon for forthcoming changes and implementing them in how filings and interactions are actually executed

• Owning quality assurance so that every filing and interaction is accurate, complete, and timely

• Advising stakeholders on their regulatory obligations and the processes used to meet them

The Senior Compliance Officer will also be expected to work with the Chief Compliance Officer ("CCO"), Deputy CCO, and other senior leaders on strategic initiatives and essential workstreams. For a high achiever, this strategic work is expected to grow over time, and ultimately the scope of the role will be limited only by the abilities and dedication of the person in it.

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our Westport, CT campus, with occasional travel to our NYC campus as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7-10 years of legal and/or compliance experience with a focus on regulatory reporting for asset managers and private funds

• Ownership mindset and good judgment; the willingness and capability to work tirelessly with the intellect and judgment to make that needed only sparingly

• Familiarity with regulations applicable to alternative investment managers and private funds

• High intellectual horsepower, agility, logical reasoning, practicality and curiosity

• Comfort operating proactively and independently while simultaneously not being afraid to ask for help

• Basic comfort with data and able to work with spreadsheets/databases to identify patterns or anomalies

• Thrives in a fast-paced environment; comfortable juggling priorities and escalating when at risk of failure

• Strong project management and oversight capabilities; willingness to hold others accountable to deadlines and obligations

• Comfort learning and adopting new software/AI tools quickly, with genuine interest in how technology can improve compliance processes

• Strong interpersonal skills; professional, team-oriented with strong work ethic and a “can-do, will-do” attitude

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Excellent organizational and time management skill with a strong attention to detail

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 improving decision-making over time. We believe this has created a unique platform for applying AI within our process, positioning us at the frontier of integrating technology with investment decision-making. 

In financial markets—where reality is constantly evolving and outcomes are uncertain—sustained excellence requires continuous learning and improvement. Our culture—anchored in radical truth and transparency—helps us learn faster. 

Find more information about Bridgewater on our website.

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s culture is anchored in the pursuit of excellence—tied directly to our mission. In financial markets, where the base case is failure and reality is constantly evolving, winning requires continuous learning and improvement. Truth is our most essential tool for improvement, and transparency helps us get closer to truth because it places many eyes on our decisions, problems, and mistakes. By understanding reality clearly, we can identify the gap between where we are and where we want to be—and use that knowledge to learn and get better. Our system that supports this way of being is an idea meritocracy, where we commit to finding and rewarding the best ideas regardless of hierarchy.

Operating in these ways is hard. Finding truth and learning through it is inherently a high-friction cycle. It’s possible because we share a few core values: a commitment to honesty, high ownership, deeply meaningful work and relationships, and building Bridgewater as a big tent where vast differences are welcomed. These values create the common denominator that binds us together in good times and bad.

Benefits

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, retirement benefits, paid leave, and other fringe benefits. Find more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website.

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.  

Sponsorship

Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $260,000 - $480,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 65% - 75% of this wage range. 

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.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer