Campus Talent 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 to 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 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. The Role Finding the right Investment Associate is one of the more nuanced talent challenges in finance — the profile is specific, the pool is competitive, and the best candidates are rarely the most obvious ones. Identifying this talent takes more than a sourcing strategy. It requires genuine passion for finding great people, deep curiosity about what makes them exceptional, and strategic thinking to stay a step ahead in a landscape where the top candidates have no shortage of options. This role is about i dentifying exceptional early-career talent before anyone else does, rigorously assessing what makes them right for the Investment Associate role, and representing Bridgewater and the program authentically at every touchpoint. You'll need to know the difference between someone who will thrive here and someone who just looks like they will. You will own the full arc: strategy, sourcing, relationships, assessment, and close. Who We're Looking For We care less about your background than your instincts. You might come from recruiting — building pipelines, working unconventional networks, staying active where others go passive. Or you might not — but you're deeply relationship-oriented, read people and situations with precision, and have the cognitive depth to assess talent at the level our Investment Associates demand. Either way: you're as systematic about finding where great talent lives as you are rigorous about assessing whether they're actually the right fit. What You'll Do Command a deep understanding of the Investment Associate profile. Build rubrics that hold up under pressure and calibrate constantly with senior investors. Design and execute search strategies. Work with hiring managers to find the best university talent across campuses, networks, and channels others overlook—and source candidates directly…