Recruiting Operations Associate

Our Culture

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better.

Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself.

The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge.

When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.

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.

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.

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 a 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…