Recruiter

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 investors, we identify and cultivate relationships with high caliber talent and convert 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

We are looking for a world-class Recruiter to join the Investment Recruiting team.  As a Recruiter, you’ll help us achieve our mission by conveying Bridgewater’s unique value proposition as you hook and hire top talent, build meaningful and productive relationships with candidates and clients, and develop the networks and talent market expertise that drive excellent hiring results. Recruiters partner with hiring managers to create, execute and evolve search strategies, compound knowledge to improve the function through time and shape strategic thinking and approaches around talent and talent acquisition. This person will be someone who seeks to deeply understand talent, has an interest in the financial markets, and thrives on using a variety of creative approaches to identify and hire talent.  The role will be a mix of working at our main offices in Westport, CT and working remotely. 

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Understand and influence hiring needs / role requirements, reconcile requirements with the broader talent market, and translate knowledge into high-quality rubrics with key profile indicators / markers.
• In partnership with Bridgewater’s senior investors, create and execute sourcing strategies.
• Oversee and manage multiple channels (i.e. search firms, referrals, etc.) to deliver high caliber talent, as potential candidates or sources.
• Research and direct source candidates.
• Track top investment talent and make strategic introductions in particular areas of interest to Bridgewater.
• Evolve search strategy by evaluating various dimensions to improve the search and outcomes.
• Assess candidates consistent with role requirements and provide that holistic picture to the hiring teams.
• Work with candidates on all parts of the offer process.
• Represent Bridgewater with a high degree of integrity and professionalism.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution (any field of study)
• 2 years recruiting experience

Preferred Requirements

• Track record of success in a rigorous environment with tight deliverables and high standards
• Passion for talent, the creative ways of finding, attracting and assessing it and the ways it can transform organizations
• Ability to create and apply non-traditional, strategic solutions to business problems
• Strong track record of partnering with senior clients to work through complex problems
• Ability to drive search strategy and results using data and metrics.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

The unifying experience at Bridgewater is meaningful work and meaningful relationships — the unique and lasting personal bonds forged out of a purposeful, rigorous, and inclusive work environment. Consistently, our employees find that this environment enables personal and professional growth, developed through an honest examination of their abilities and performance. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

In this role, you will 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
• Honing your recruiting expertise working alongside investors at the world’s largest hedge fund.
• Taking ownership of increasingly complex workstreams and searches.
• Learning directly from our investors about what they do and how Bridgewater seeks to understand global markets and economies.

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