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.

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.

Our Culture

Our culture is tied to our mission, which is to understand how the world’s markets and economies work, and to translate that into world-class investment performance. This requires an extraordinary team, defined by the best individuals and the best portfolio of people, operating in an idea meritocracy. In this, we are uncompromising on our shared values of excellence, truth, integrity, humility, and courage. Our aspiration of a vibrant idea meritocracy requires diversity of thought – this comes from diversity of background, identity, experience, and so much more. We pursue inclusion because it’s how we unlock the power of that diversity and make sure the best ideas get heard. To sustain this way of being through lots of years and lots of circumstances, we invest in meaningful work and meaningful relationships – the purpose and joy that comes from tackling something challenging and worthy, alongside people who make us better versions of ourselves.

About the Role

As the Head of Threat Management, you will lead Bridgewater’s threat detection and response functions, managing a team of engineers across different levels while coordinating with other security teams. This senior leadership role involves guiding a high-performing team in maintaining and augmenting threat management operations while maintaining integration with broader initiatives across Security and Technology.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

Leadership & Strategy

Senior manager that can lead and mentor a team of Engineers. Fosters a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement for the team’s fully remote workforce.
Develop and execute the Threat Management strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with Bridgewater’s evolving business, technology, and security objectives
Partner with senior leadership to advocate for and articulate the value of security initiatives across the organization.

Team and Program Management

Drive threat management’s priorities and allocate resources towards the highest ROI work for Bridgewater
Oversee threat management program and operations
Maintain a 24/7 incident response capability
Ensure effective operations across program areas including incident response, detection, and vulnerability management.
Manage team budget and resource planning

Stakeholder Engagement

Serve as a trusted advisor to the CISO and other senior executives on cyber security threats
Partner with Security Architecture and Engineering on identification, prioritization, and implementation of security controls
Collaborate with Data Engineering on building and maintaining security analytics and signals
Coordinate and partner with external security partners and stakeholders

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related field.
10+ years of experience in information security, with at least 5 years in a leadership role focused on security operations.
Experience in highly regulated and fast-paced industries, such as financial services, is strongly preferred.
Deep expertise in network security, identity and access management, encryption, and vulnerability management.
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker).
Experience with modern DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices, including automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines.
Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strategic thinker capable of independently understanding an evolving threat landscape to develop forward-looking security strategies.
Ability to lead a team through a transformation and navigate periods of ambiguity.

Physical Requirements

This role is offered as fully remote within the United States. Occasional travel may be required throughout the year (should not exceed 1x per quarter).

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $600,000 - $1,000,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 60-70% 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 employees with opportunities that will challenge them and unlock their 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. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here.

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