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.
- Competitive Intelligence
- Client Group
- Equity Research
- Fixed Income Research
- Global Accounting
- Global Trading
- Investment Technology
- Legal & Compliance
- Tax Services
- Operational Risk Services
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.
- Finance and Administration
- Human Resources
- Investment Products and Fund Strategies
- Client Group
- Global Trading
- Legal & Compliance
- Portfolio Services
- Product Development
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.
