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What is 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

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

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

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 prospective clients on their most difficult investment and portfolio construction problems. We help our prospective 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 Digital Coordinator is a member of the newly formed team within Bridgewater’s Client Service department called the Content Lab, which is responsible for creating, harvesting, and strategically distributing all of Bridgewater’s external-facing content. This role will play a meaningful part in helping Bridgewater achieve its digital strategy, providing excellent day-to-day project and program management, and operationally supporting the Content Lab team. In close partnership with our content teams and stakeholders across the firm, the Digital Coordinator will manage all corporate content for Bridgewater on our digital platforms. This role is integral to the creation and implementation of Bridgewater’s brand in the digital marketplace. The ideal candidate is passionate about social media and dedicated to driving an external understanding of what makes Bridgewater unique. This role requires a highly organized person who can visualize projects, juggle multiple priorities seamlessly, while maintaining a high bar for the content produced. Successful candidates will thrive in fast-paced, results oriented, high-stakes environments and are excellent facilitators, communicators, and proactive partners.

You will be a click for the role if you:

Live and breathe social media. You understand how social media platforms and digital content are evolving and can translate that understanding into an accurate assessment of our digital footprint and an actionable plan to keep us ahead of the curve
Are interested in learning more about analytics and reporting to create a data driven approach to measure our performance across channels
Are a team player who can learn quickly and who can proactively seek to improve efficiency and quality
Are a ‘big picture’ thinker who can focus on the goal at hand, not only tasks
Thrive in a dynamic environment and approach challenges with common sense and practicality
Have the ability to orchestrate and prioritize long and short-term projects at once while maintaining high quality work

You will drive the following responsibilities:

Create and publish content across all our corporate digital platforms (Client and Public websites, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc.).
Act as a good thought partner to the creative and strategists on building, tracking, and synthesizing data and metrics.
Collaborate with Executives and business stakeholders to publish content and be a key input to the final product of our editorial layouts.
Manage and assist in the publishing to our executive social media channels.
Act as a key member of Content Lab team, providing leverage in support of the team’s goals and responsibilities through project management, operational, and coordination duties.
Drive execution, provide direction, and project manage initiatives across multiple stakeholders and departments.
Synchronize communication across the team, by tracking and reporting on status of key activities and keeping knowledge repositories up to date.
Anticipate and resolve problems efficiently and independently.

We are looking for candidates with the following minimum qualifications: 

2+ years of digital media experience in a coordination or project management-related role focused on digital media in an agency, financial services, or technology setting
Excellent understanding and experience in digital strategy
Highly organized and excellent attention to detail, can juggle multiple projects and priorities with a high level of efficiency
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Demonstrated experience proofreading external and/or corporate internal content with a particular emphasis on creative writing
Flexible, able to anticipate and adapt to changes or rapidly evolving situations
Familiarity with Microsoft operating systems and/or tools (MS Office 365, Excel, Word, Outlook, SharePoint)

Physical Requirements: The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus.

Compensation: The wage range for this role is $110,000 - $150,000 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.

In this role, you will grow with us by:

Learning how to build teams that span levels and organizations
Developing rich expertise across a broad set of finance operations problems and principles
Taking ownership of increasingly complex systems and processes.
Taking on oversight and mentorship responsibilities to grow talent as you gain experience.
Opportunities to grow your career across Bridgewater depending on your strengths, weaknesses, and experience.

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 with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
401(k) plan with generous employer match
Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks , and meditation rooms
An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups
For a full list of Bridgewater benefits, click 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 regulation.

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

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