Recruiting Operations Associate

About the Human Resources Department

The Human Resources Department at Bridgewater Associates is dedicated to strengthening the talent and systems that drive individual and organizational excellence—supporting our mission to develop a deep understanding of global economies and serve our clients with distinction. HR partners closely with business leaders across the full employee lifecycle, providing both strategic thought partnership and rigorous operational execution across recruiting, onboarding, compensation, benefits, performance, and workplace experience. 

With an AI-first mindset, the team continuously builds capacity for higher-value work and improves the employee experience at scale. Our five core responsibilities span serving as subject matter experts on all people matters, running the processes that bring our talent strategy to life, ensuring every employee feels deeply cared for and celebrated, safeguarding the institution through disciplined compliance and governance, and building the infrastructure behind firm-wide people operations. 

About Your Role 

As a Recruiting Operations Associate (ROA), you will own the coordination of a search from start to finish. Your role is to make sure that all search activity and deliverables come together on time, in the right order, and with clear communication to all stakeholders.  Most significantly, this includes directly managing relationships with all candidates in your portfolio, creating an experience that is authentic, excellent, and logistically smooth. 

Being a great ROA requires significantly more than just strong execution.  You will partner with hiring managers and one or more recruiters from your team to understand search goals and translate them into concrete outcomes, whether that’s crafting job descriptions, arranging interviews, or measuring search progress.         

This is a position with ample opportunity for impact – creating a world-class hiring experience for hiring managers and candidates alike.   

Your primary responsibilities will include: 

• Owning full candidate lifecycle logistics and overall operations for a search portfolio  

• Scheduling a high-volume of both virtual and in-person interviews 

• Ensuring an excellent experience for all candidates 

• Partnering closely with the recruiters on your team, staying aligned on priorities and taking prompt action on deliverables 

• Maintaining accurate, up-to-date candidate and search data in our applicant tracking systems 

• Coordinating directly with hiring managers, interviewers, and candidates to keep the process moving and to resolve logistical issues as they arise 

• Handling sensitive information with discretion and sound judgment 

• Effectively using metrics to measure search progress, gauge pipeline health, and spot problems  

• Identifying and making process improvements that impact that entire team, not just your own book of work 

• Learning about the business units you support, building strong relationships with hiring managers and interviewers along the way

This role follows a hybrid schedule — 2 days per week onsite, with flexibility to split time between our NYC and Westport offices. 

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record (any field of study) 

• 3+ years of professional experience; prior experience with recruiting/talent acquisition is welcomed but not required  

• Strong written and verbal communication skills 

• Meticulous attention to detail, particularly in the context of high-volume work and concurrent priorities 

• A proactive, collaborative approach to problem-solving 

• Strong judgment, including knowing when to operate independently and when to ask for help in ambiguous circumstances 

• A commitment to continuous improvement, including openness to feedback and the willingness to share feedback with others 

We currently have opportunities for the Recruiting Operations Associate role on both our campus & professional hiring teams.

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a global macro investment firm, founded in 1975, whose mission is to develop a fundamental, cause-and-effect understanding of how markets and economies work—and translate that understanding into insights, returns, and solutions that help the world’s leading institutional investors solve their most important investment challenges. 

Over five decades, we have codified our fundamental understanding into a systematic investment process—integrating human judgment with machine intelligence with the goal of applying our thinking consistently, testing it against reality, and continuously improving decision-making over time. We believe this has created a unique platform for applying AI within our process, positioning us at the frontier of integrating technology with investment decision-making. 

In financial markets—where reality is constantly evolving and outcomes are uncertain—sustained excellence requires continuous learning and improvement. Our culture—anchored in radical truth and transparency—helps us learn faster. 

Find more information about Bridgewater on our website.

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s culture is anchored in the pursuit of excellence—tied directly to our mission. In financial markets, where the base case is failure and reality is constantly evolving, winning requires continuous learning and improvement. Truth is our most essential tool for improvement, and transparency helps us get closer to truth because it places many eyes on our decisions, problems, and mistakes. By understanding reality clearly, we can identify the gap between where we are and where we want to be—and use that knowledge to learn and get better. Our system that supports this way of being is an idea meritocracy, where we commit to finding and rewarding the best ideas regardless of hierarchy. 

Operating in these ways is hard. Finding truth and learning through it is inherently a high-friction cycle. It’s possible because we share a few core values: a commitment to honesty, high ownership, deeply meaningful work and relationships, and building Bridgewater as a big tent where vast differences are welcomed. These values create the common denominator that binds us together in good times and bad. 

Benefits

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, retirement benefits, paid leave, and other fringe benefits. Find more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website. 

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. 

Sponsorship

Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.  

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $90,000 - $130,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus.

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.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer