Intellectual curiosity = unlimited potential
We welcome smart, hard-working, and intellectually curious individuals to work with us. While the specific attributes and skills we seek vary by position, the common characteristics we look for in our campus candidates include:
- Ability to collaborate and build strong relationships within a global framework
- Capacity for differentiated thinking and independent initiative
- Record of achievement and a strong work ethic
- Diversity — including a blend of life experiences
- Inquisitiveness and self-motivation
- Maturity and a balance between confidence and humility
- Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize information
We invest in you, so you can invest in the world
Internships and co-ops
We offer internship and co-op opportunities at both the undergraduate and MBA level throughout the firm, globally. Each program is designed to ensure interns gain valuable industry experience while learning about our firm.
At the undergraduate level, Wellington Management has a summer internship program. The internship takes place between June and August and typically lasts 10-12 weeks. Roles are located in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.
While the internship program focuses on targeting underrepresented groups in investment management (women and people of color), the program is inclusive, therefore any qualified candidates can apply. Overall, we seek talented, dedicated students with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.
Our internship roles spread across many departments in the firm including the areas of business, investment research and investment technology. Internship roles typically fall into the following teams, but change every year based on business need:
- Competitive Intelligence
- Global Relationship Group
- Equity Research
- Fixed Income Research
- Global Accounting
- Global Trading
- Investment Technology
- Legal & Compliance
- Tax Services
- Operational Risk Services
Over the summer, our interns experience a highly challenging and rewarding program that offers insights into the investment management industry and Wellington Management. Exceptional summer interns are viewed as potential candidates for our full-time campus programs.
The deadline to apply is 22 October 2020.
Wellington Management has selectively established offices to support global investing and our global client base. Our relationship management teams actively serve clients in their own time zones. The proximity, coupled with their local market knowledge, enables relationship managers to focus on issues unique to each client’s investment environment. With the growth of our global offices, we are now able to offer more opportunities for undergraduates. Below are the current offices with opportunities:
Hong Kong
Wellington Management offers undergraduate opportunities in the Hong Kong office. Opportunities exist within our Global Trading Group, Global Relationship Group, Investment Product & Fund Strategies Group, Investment Research Department, Investment Services & Technology Group (InvesTech). Eligible candidates are sourced from local universities and should be eligible to work in Hong Kong. Please contact the undergrad mailbox for more information.
London
Wellington Management offers various undergraduate opportunities in London. Roles are available in areas such as Global Relationship Group, Investment Research, Legal, Investment Products & Fund Strategies, Investment Services & Technology (InvesTech), Trading. Opportunities vary on duration and eligible candidates are sourced from universities locally. Please email the undergrad mailbox for more information.
Singapore
Wellington Management offers Global Relationship Group, Investment Products and Fund Strategies, Investment Research, and Investment Services & Technology (InvesTech) opportunities based in the Singapore office. Interested undergraduates must be in their penultimate year and eligible to work in Singapore. The program recruits directly from the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, and Singapore Management University. Please contact your career services office for more information.
Sydney
Wellington Management offers internships working with our Global Relationship Group and Investment Services & Technology Group (InvesTech) in the Sydney office. Applicants should be penultimate year students who are eligible for work in Australia. We recruit directly from the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney. Please contact your career services office for more information.
We partner directly with Northeastern University’s Co-op program for Boston-based and international positions. If you are a Northeastern University student, please contact your advisor for more information. We also recruit from Drexel University for the Radnor, PA-based roles.
Investing in you
Wellington Management will work with you to meet your long-term career aspirations — we do not believe in a one-size-fits-all career path. Our goal is to help you develop and evolve into a top performer in whatever field you choose.
There are many ways to develop your professional career. Some Wellington Management employees go on to part-time graduate studies using the firm’s tuition reimbursement benefit. Some pursue the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) designation through Wellington Management’s CFA® program. Others decide to go back to school full time to pursue graduate studies. All paths are encouraged and supported.
Full-time opportunities
Wellington Management’s Campus Programs seek smart, diverse, intellectually curious graduating students who want to launch their careers full-time in investment management.
A full-time, three-year opportunity for graduating Bachelor’s students who are interested in a variety of career opportunities available in the investment management industry. This program will help you gain insight into our industry, firm, and culture.
Successful candidates are high-performing, talented students who are intellectually curious and self-motivated. Upon completion of this program, participants may be placed into positions across the firm that are complementary to their skills, interests, and business needs. To qualify, you will need to graduate in the fall 2020 – spring 2021 academic calendar year and be pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in any major,. Opportunities typically exist within our Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London and Singapore offices in the following groups:
- Finance and Administration
- Human Resources
- Investment Products and Fund Strategies
- Global Relationship Group
- Global Trading
- Legal & Compliance
- Portfolio Services
- Product Development
The deadline to apply for Boston based roles is 13 October 2020.
A full-time, up to five-year opportunity in our Investment Science Group suitable for bachelor’s students.
The world is full of fascinating questions. As an investment science associate, you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in complex data sets, research challenging investment questions, and solve problems with modern data science techniques — from idea generation and prototyping to validation and production.
Examples of the nature of the work include:
- Building predictive models and identifying and validating public data sources to build out data-driven investment hypotheses
- Completing complex analytical projects and statistical analyses across securities, asset classes, and economic relationships
- Assisting with portfolio construction, factors, risk management, and trading analysis
- Creating visualizations and dashboard views using various data sets
- Working with structured and unstructured data
- Researching macroeconomic themes and factors
- Collaborating with fundamental investors to generate alpha within investment processes
Investment science associates will act as internal investment science consultants and research analysts, providing quantitative research to the firm’s talented community of investors. These insights will enable the firm to make prudent financial decisions to benefit thousands of retirees, savers, and institutions. With so many unanswered questions in the investment world, which ones will you answer?
The deadline to apply is 25 September 2020.
A full-time, up to five-year opportunity in our Investment Platform suitable for undergraduate students, and individuals with 1 – 3+ years of work experience whom we typically recruit in the Spring.
The goal of the Early Career Investor program is to provide flexible, value-added analytical resources to support the firm’s mission of superior investment performance. We aim to develop and identify exceptional RAs to build our pipeline of talented investors. Through a series of rotations, program participants will play a critical role in assisting experienced analysts and portfolio managers in conducting research and implementing their investment process. Some program participants may spend up to 24 months in their first rotation based on their experience and our needs may be more closely aligned with one asset class. Interested candidates should have geographic flexibility. For our 2021 hiring needs, opportunities exist globally, in Boston, London, Hong Kong and Singapore. Positions will be sourced from local, partnered universities by each office’s recruitment team.
Examples of the nature of the work include:
- Analyzing potential investment opportunities
- Building and maintaining company financial spreadsheets
- Modeling sophisticated financial instruments
- Completing complex analytical projects
- Researching macroeconomic themes
- Communicating investment ideas in spoken and written form
- Creating visualizations and dashboard views using various data sets
- Researching ESG factors and their impact on investments
Important characteristics that we look for in potential candidates include:
- Intellectual curiosity and mental flexibility
- A growth mindset
- Willingness and ability to take risk
- Strong learning orientation
- Humility
- Agility and comfort with ambiguity
The deadline to apply is 25 September 2020.
The InvesTech Associate program is a new program, that is a combination of the former Client Associate, Protfolio Services Associate and Technoloy Associate Programs. This program will focus on building technical and business skills through rotations across various technology and operations teams, including IT, Client Services, Portfolio Services, and Fund Services. The program design is being finalized and more details will follow.
The deadline to apply is 13 October 2020.
