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 for 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.

About the Client Service Department

The goal of Client Service is to build and grow meaningful relationships with the world’s largest, most sophisticated investors and help clients achieve their goals through high quality return streams and tailored insights. To this end, we aim to deeply understand the global pools of capital, develop strategies to effectively develop relationships, and partner with clients on their most difficult investment and portfolio construction problems.  We help our clients broaden their understanding of our investment process, strategies, and performance as well as deepen their understanding of financial markets more generally.  

About the Role

The Associate Director plays a pivotal role within the Client Service organization, advancing the firm’s mission to build enduring partnerships with the world’s largest and most sophisticated pools of capital. Sitting at the center of client relationships, this role combines strategic thought partnership, investment fluency, and operational excellence to help clients achieve their objectives through high-quality returns and differentiated insights. In close partnership with Client Advisors, the Associate Director develops a deep understanding of each client’s goals, constraints, and governance structures, translating that insight into engagement strategies that strengthen relationships and drive commercial outcomes.

External Impact

In partnership with the Client Advisor, the Associate Director plays a critical role in advancing and executing client strategy. They build and deepen relationships with key client counterparts, serve as a trusted day-to-day thought partner, and help reinforce the firm’s brand through clear and compelling communication of complex investment strategies. By cultivating strong working relationships and second-level advocacy across client organizations, Associate Directors help sustain and grow mandates while identifying opportunities to expand partnerships in alignment with broader team objectives.

Internal Leadership

Internally, the Associate Director acts as a critical nexus between clients and the broader organization. They lead day-to-day management of a client book, quarterback complex portfolio initiatives, and drive cross-functional collaboration to execute against strategic goals. Success in the role requires rigorous investment fluency, strong commercial judgment, and the ability to translate sophisticated portfolio concepts into actionable client solutions. Through disciplined execution and strategic insight, Associate Directors contribute meaningfully to both client outcomes and the long-term growth of the business. They also join a cohort responsible for driving internal improvements and initiatives in areas of content, training, and operations.

Investment Fluency and Development

Success in this role requires a rigorous understanding of the firm’s investment approach, strategies, and portfolio construction philosophy. Associate Directors undergo extensive training to develop deep fluency in core investment concepts, enabling them to accurately represent the firm externally and engage clients at a sophisticated level.

What Defines Excellence in This Role

The strongest Associate Directors have:

• Strategic relationship understanding and judgment
• Marrying of client needs with Bridgewater strategy and offerings
• Intellectual rigor and investment fluency
• Commercial instinct aligned with long-term partnership building
• Effective key stakeholder management
• Clear, compelling communication of complex ideas
• Strong project leadership and collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Managing a high volume of tasks with varying complexity and timelines

Associate Directors have the following responsibilities

• Represent Bridgewater and our investment strategies directly to clients, in partnership with the Client Advisor, with increasing ownership as investment fluency and content depth grow.
• Serve as a conduit of information between clients and the broader organization by developing a deep understanding of Bridgewater’s research process, investment strategies, business infrastructure, and strategic priorities.
• Partner cross-functionally (Investment Research, Legal, Finance, Operations, etc.) to drive client-focused projects and requests through to completion with high quality deliverables.
• Maintain a rigorous and accurate synthesis of current and historical client relationship dynamics, objectives, constraints, and governance considerations to inform engagement strategy.
• Act as a primary day-to-day point of contact for client inquiries, requests, and portfolio discussions, supporting client retention, mandate stability, and growth.
• Identify and solve problems efficiently and independently — both proactively and in response to evolving client needs — escalating appropriately when strategic input from the Client Advisor is required.
• Partner closely with Client Advisors, Analysts, and Associate Coordinators to manage the internal operations, priorities, and execution tempo of the coverage team, ensuring disciplined follow-through and alignment with broader relationship objectives.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years professional or equivalent experience
• Experience working with institutional clients
• Bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record
• Effective written and oral communication skills, with strong detail orientation
• A high degree of proficiency in Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel; general comfort with learning and using new software tools

Physical Requirements

This role will be Westport, CT, based for the first year of training at a minimum and will follow a hybrid schedule of four days per week in the office, with occasional requirement to work out of our NYC office to participate in client engagements. From there, there will be an option to discuss location options that meet business and collaboration needs.

Wage Range

The total compensation range for this position is $350,000 – $650,000. Actual base salary will be dependent on the individual’s skills, experience, and qualifications.  This role may also be eligible for other forms of compensation, including but not limited to a cash bonus.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential. 

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. 

Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here. 

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 

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 for 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.

About the Client Service Department

The goal of Client Service is to build and grow meaningful relationships with the world’s largest, most sophisticated investors and help clients achieve their goals through high quality return streams and tailored insights. To this end, we deeply understand the global pools of capital, develop strategies to effectively develop relationships, and partner with clients on their most difficult investment and portfolio construction problems. We help our clients broaden their understanding of our investment process, strategies and performance as well as deepen their understanding of financial markets more generally.

About Your Role

As an Associate, you’ll help the Client Service Department achieve our mission by ensuring clients receive exceptional service and that your team is achieving its strategic goals.  In order to do so, you will be the ‘air traffic controller’ of your team, responsible for a variety of administrative, operational and project management activities, serving around 30 clients. You will help set goals, brainstorm execution, project manage multiple initiatives, coordinate directly with clients and internal stakeholders, be the first point of contact for client requests, and plan meetings, trips and events.

Without the Associate, the team doesn’t run.  Associates must be highly organized, detail-oriented, calm under pressure, and great at time management. They must communicate professionally, enjoy problem solving, and thrive in a dynamic, relationship-driven environment.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Partner with your team’s Client Advisor (senior relationship manager) to understand client goals and translate the business plan into an organized operational cadence for the team, including providing administrative and calendar support
• Provide high quality and professional client service, acting as the first point of contact for all incoming client inquiries via email or phone
• Distill information and synthesize the key points to the team and other relevant, internal stakeholders
• Coordinate tasks, activities and collaboration sessions to meet client needs from visualization to scheduling
• Drive execution, provide direction, and project manage initiatives across multiple stakeholders
• Facilitate synchronization and communication across the team, by tracking and reporting on status of key activities and keeping knowledge repositories up to date (i.e. CRM)
• Ensure team and key stakeholders are prepared for all client interactions (i.e. presentations, prep notes, technology)
• Coordinate logistics for clients and team, including travel strategy, events and presentation materials
• Anticipate and resolve problems efficiently and independently
• Work with other teams on projects to improve departmental operations

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Are a team player who can learn quickly and who can proactively seek to improve efficiency and quality
• Are a ‘big picture’ thinker who is able to focus on the goal at hand, not only tasks
• Distill information, prioritize well and summarize key points for senior leaders
• Enjoy solving problems using logic and common sense to develop practical solutions
• Have the ability to orchestrate and prioritize multiple activities at once while maintaining high quality work
• Hold a high standard for excellent client/customer service and desire to help others
• Are willing and able to anticipate the needs and concerns of others
• Have a preference for interpersonal interactions and are unafraid to engage with others
• Value the pursuit of truth and excellence
• Demonstrate innate curiosity and a tendency to thrive on learning new things
• Are dedicated to self-improvement and improvement of others

Minimum Qualifications 

• Effective written and oral communication skills with strong attention to detail
• A high degree of proficiency in Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel; general comfort with learning
• and using new software tools
• Bachelor’s degree with strong academic record preferred
• Experience in financial services or a professional business environment is a plus, though not required

Physical Requirements

This role will follow a hybrid schedule, with an onsite requirement of four days per week at our Westport CT campus.

Wage Range

The wage range for this role is $135,000-$200,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

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.

Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here.

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

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 for 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.

About External Affairs & Communications 

The goal of Bridgewater’s External Affairs & Communications function is to shape and defend the firm’s reputation with key stakeholders and the broader public. We align external perception with internal reality by reinforcing institutional strength, amplifying core narratives, and protecting the firm’s business and people. The function sets the vision and strategy for press and media engagement, secures strategic opportunities for senior leaders and spokespeople, manages reputational risk, supports commercial and client objectives, and delivers a best-in-class digital experience across owned channels (primarily web and social). This work requires strong judgment, rigorous execution, and close coordination across the firm and externally.

About the Role

The Associate, Public Relations is a member of Bridgewater’s External Affairs & Communications team and plays a critical role within the Press & Media pillar. The role is responsible for helping translate firm priorities and external communications strategy into high-quality execution across media engagements, external messaging, and press operations.

Reporting to the Head of Public Relations and working closely with stakeholders across the firm, this role supports both reactive and proactive media efforts, manages core press operations, and helps ensure Bridgewater’s external communications are accurate, thoughtful, well-coordinated, and aligned with firm priorities. The Associate will be deeply involved in drafting and refining external-facing materials, coordinating media interactions, and supporting employees and senior leaders in high-stakes, fast-moving situations.

This role requires strong judgment, excellent written communication skills, and the ability to operate with ownership in a complex, dynamic environment. Successful candidates are highly organized, comfortable managing multiple workstreams, and motivated by delivering consistently high-quality outcomes while navigating risk, sensitivity, and ambiguity.

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Have a strong interest in press, media relations, and external communications, and are motivated by shaping how complex organizations engage externally.
• Are highly organized and operationally strong, with the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality and follow-through materials.
• Take an ownership mindset — you don’t just execute tasks, you think ahead, flag risks, and look for ways to improve outcomes materials.
• Bring sound judgment and discretion, especially when working on sensitive, confidential, or reputationally significant topics.
• Are a collaborative partner who can work effectively across teams and levels, including with senior leaders.
• Thrive in fast-paced, high-stakes environments and approach challenges with pragmatism, rigor, and professionalism.

You will drive the following responsibilities: 

• Own day-to-day execution across the Press/Media pillar, operating within strategy and direction set by senior leadership while exercising sound independent judgment.
• Execute inbound media requests, including risk assessment, coordination, drafting talking points, and follow-ups.
• Support proactive outbound media engagement in support of firm priorities, including senior leader prep, interview coordination, and conference and speaking opportunities.
• Draft, edit, and refine external-facing written materials (e.g., talking points, briefing documents, backgrounders) with precision, judgment, and attention to risk.
• Support risk management efforts by proactively identifying sensitivities, flagging potential issues, and helping manage fast-moving or confidential situations.
• Own core Press/Media operations, including media scans, client media monitoring, conference tracking, stakeholder updates, meeting preparation, and vendor coordination.
• Maintain organized systems and documentation that enable transparency, continuity, and scalability within the Press/Media function.
• Demonstrate an ownership mindset by continuously identifying opportunities to improve processes, quality, and impact.

We are looking for candidates with the following minimum qualifications:  

• 4+ years of professional experience in press, media relations, or strategic communications, ideally within an agency or similarly fast-paced, high-accountability environment.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with media, including pitching stories, managing relationships, and handling inbound requests.
• Strong written communicator with the ability to draft and refine external-facing content with clarity, precision, and sound judgment.
• Highly organized and reliable, with a proven ability to manage multiple workstreams in high-stakes environments.
• Exhibits sound judgment and discretion around sensitive, confidential, or reputationally significant topics; understands when to escalate and ask for help.
• Comfortable partnering with senior stakeholders and executives, including preparing materials and representing the Press/Media function with professionalism and expertise.
• Collaborative team player who works effectively across Communications, Content, Digital, Commercial, and other internal and external partners.
• Operates with an ownership mindset, taking accountability for outcomes and proactively identifying risks, opportunities, and improvements.

Physical Requirements:

The onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our Westport, CT campus, with occasional time spent at our New York City office. Note: New York-based candidates may have the opportunity to increase their NYC office presence over time.

Compensation:

The wage range for this role is $150,000-200,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80-90% of this wage range.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

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.

Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here.

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