Experienced Recruiting Coordinator

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.

Powering this engine requires a diverse community of investment professionals, technologists, managers and other specialists.

The firm attracts independent thinkers who share a commitment to achieving excellence in their respective lines of work and operating in our unique culture.

Bridgewater was founded in 1975 and its principal offices are located in Westport, CT — an hour outside New York City.

Our Culture

Bridgewater aspires to be an idea meritocracy in which radical transparency and believability-weighted decision-making allow the best ideas to prevail.

Feedback is frequent and flows in all directions, meetings are recorded and shared, mistake-based learning is encouraged, and everyone is expected to uphold high standards of excellence and personal accountability.

Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) is central to that mission – to develop the deepest understanding of markets and economies we must find, retain, and grow the best talent across gender identity, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gained experiences, and more.

To unlock the power of that diversity also requires an inclusive environment.

In pursuit of this vision, Bridgewater has a full-time D&I team reporting to our CEO, vibrant affinity networks, and several companywide initiatives to drive progress.

Ask your Bridgewater recruiter to learn more.

About the Investment 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 Investment 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.

Bridgewater’s recruiting efforts reflect the Company’s values and principles; and our approach to hiring is systematic and evidence based.

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.

Position Summary

As a Campus Recruiting Coordinator, 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.

You’ll Click With Us If You:

• Tend to thrive in dynamic 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 and do what it takes to get the job done
• Are a natural “problem perceiver” — you can sense when something’s missing or gone awry
• Can keep track of many threads at once — you understand what must happen in a day, a week, a month while keeping the mission in mind
• Are open-minded, appreciate direct feedback, and revel in intellectually rigorous environments

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Partnering with your team to help create the best ways to find, attract, and assess talent
• Being organized and reliable as you ensure candidates move through the recruiting process smoothly and efficiently
• Being a time management wizard, balancing deadlines and demands while organizing multiple streams of information
• 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 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

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record (any field of study)
• Professional experience within recruiting or coordination-oriented role is a plus but not required

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.

Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including health insurance with 100% premium coverage, a 401(k) plan with generous employer match, fully paid parental leave, a competitive PTO package, workplace flexibility, adoption and egg-freezing assistance, wellness offerings such as on-site gyms, free meals, healthy snacks, and meditation rooms, and an engaged and active community that includes company events, affinity networks and extracurricular interest groups.

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