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
- Client 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.
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.
Inspired by our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy, Wellington Management is pleased to provide scholarships and internships for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) who have a desire to learn more about career opportunities that exist within the Investment Management industry.
The Wellington Scholars Program consists of a renewable annual merit-based scholarship of up to $15,000, which will be applied to junior- and senior-year tuition, as well as a paid summer internship after the scholar’s sophomore and junior year.
Wellington’s intent is to purposely provide a hands-on development experience to expose students to the asset management industry, and to deliver academic tuition assistance to support the scholar’s matriculation.
Learn more about the program on the HBCU Scholarship page.
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. During the program, top performing BAs will 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 2021 – spring 2022 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:
- Client Group
- Finance and Administration
- Global Trading
- Human Resources
- Investment Products and Fund Strategies
- Legal & Enterprise Risk Management
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?
A full-time, up to three to five-year opportunity in our Investment Platform suitable for undergraduate students, and individuals with 1 – 3+ years of work experience.
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 2022 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 global InvesTech Associate program in our Investment Services and Technology department is open to eligible undergraduate students graduating with their Bachelor’s degree between Fall 2021 – Summer 2022. As an InvesTech Associate, you will develop the foundation to become successful in a career in financial operations and technology. This global program starts in July 2022 and is designed to equip you with new skills and knowledge of our clients, industry, firm, and culture while developing a strong, global internal network that will set you up for a successful transition into the firm. By investing in your personal growth on day one, you will help us continue to exceed our client’s expectations. InvesTech Associates will receive training and skill building opportunities to develop expertise in the processes and technology that drive asset management, portfolio analysis, funds, and client engagement.
Opportunities exist in:
- Information Technology
- Client Reporting & Transaction Services
- Fund Services
- Portfolio Services
The deadline to apply is 13 October 2021
