Recruiting Operations Associate

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

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

Explore more information about Bridgewater’s culture on our website here.

About the Alpha Engine

Our core mission as an organization is to understand the fundamental drivers of markets and turn that understanding into high-quality portfolios and investment advice for our clients.  We do this in three critical ways: by being fundamental, systematic, and diversified. We seek to understand the economy in a fundamental way, uncovering the timeless and universal cause-and-effect linkages that drive global markets. That understanding is implemented systematically and converted into explicit rules that can be rigorously stress-tested. Finally, we create highly diversified portfolios that are not dependent on any one source of return and can survive a wide range of economic environments. 

About the Team

The Alpha Engine Recruiting team is responsible for attracting and engaging the world’s best investment talent.  In partnership with our business partners, we identify and cultivate relationships with high caliber talent and converts candidates to hires.  Finding top talent not only sustains Bridgewater’s position as one of the top investment management firms, but also positions the company for the continual innovation necessary to solve tomorrow’s problems.

About Your Role

The goal of Bridgewater’s recruiting department is to be the best talent acquisition organization in the world. Finding top talent not only sustains Bridgewater’s position as one of the top investment management firms, but also positions the company for the continual innovation necessary to solve tomorrow’s problems in a rapidly changing world. Bridgewater’s recruiting department is responsible for partnering with a diverse set of internal business units to build and evolve their organizations by meeting their talent demands and cultivating an exceptional candidate experience.

As an experienced Recruiting Operations Associate, you’ll help us achieve our mission to hook and hire top undergraduate talent by facilitating a seamless recruiting experience and serving as an air traffic controller for the campus community.

Within the role, your primary responsibilities will include:

• Partnering with your team to help create the best ways to find, attract, and assess talent
• Ensuring candidates move through the recruiting process smoothly and efficiently
• Engaging effectively with candidates, hiring managers, and external partners through strong written and verbal communication skills
• Being a time management wizard, balancing deadlines and demands while organizing multiple streams of information
• Tracking candidate data and event metrics, and analyzing this information to inform decisions
• Building cross-departmental relationships and learning the company’s internal systems
• Thinking about the big picture — frequently stepping back to determine how you can systemize processes and categorize people for the benefit of your team and the entire organization

You’ll click with us if you:

• Thrive in fast-paced environments thanks to your agile mind, curiosity, and strong common sense
• Are a jack/jill-of-all-trades who’s willing to roll up your sleeves who enjoys having a variety of workstreams at once and is willing to do what it takes to get the job done
• Are a natural “problem perceiver” — you can sense when something’s gone awry and can quickly propose solutions to right the ship
• Can keep track of many threads at once — you understand what must happen in a day, a week, a month while keeping the overall mission in mind
• Are open-minded, appreciate direct feedback, and revel in intellectually rigorous environments
• Have experience in or an appetite for event planning – everything from logistics to on-the-ground coordination
• Are comfortable handling unexpected challenges and are willing to adjust your priorities based on changing needs

Physical requirements:

This role will follow a hybrid schedule, with an onsite requirement alternating between our NYC and Westport campuses.

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 you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

In this role, you’ll grow with us by:

• Sharpening your ability to navigate and solve tough problems, becoming more effective as you learn about your own strengths and weaknesses
• Taking on larger and more complex projects as you learn from your manager and master the day-to-day responsibilities of your job, having more impact through time
• Working within a department responsible for one of Bridgewater’s top strategic priorities while getting to know different groups across the company — giving you a unique view of other Support & Coordination or Management roles you could explore in the future

Compensation band:

• The wage range for this role is $80,000 - $120,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.

Minimum qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record (any field of study)
• Professional experience within recruiting or coordination-oriented role is preferred

Interested in learning more about working at Bridgewater? Hear about the experiences of our employees here.

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 with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
• 401(k) plan with generous employer match
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
• Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks , and meditation rooms
• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups § For a full list of Bridgewater benefits, click 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