Senior Associate / Associate, Benefits & Wellness - Bridgewater Associates

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 

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 Role 

At Bridgewater Associates, providing world-class benefits and care for our employees has always been a top priority. In line with that focus, our Benefits & Wellness Team works to ensure that our benefits programs and policies are responsive to the ever-evolving needs of our employees – enabling them build a great life and career and ensuring that they have access to excellent resources that support them during times of need. 

The Benefits & Wellness Team is currently looking to hire a Senior Associate or Associate who will own critical responsibilities ranging anywhere from supporting employee cases/questions to running internal processes that enable the broader benefits ecosystem to managing external vendors and partners (amongst many others). 

Our Benefits & Wellness Senior Associate or Associate will frequently collaborate with the broader Benefits Team and other internal stakeholders on both standard day-to-day operations and complex employee cases.  Given the sensitive nature of the information that the Benefits & Wellness Team regularly engages on, unwavering professionalism, absolute discretion, and exceptional judgement are all non-negotiable for both roles.  

In this role, you will drive the following responsibilities: 

• Administer Bridgewater's suite of employee benefit programs with a strong focus on delivering high quality customer service  
• Analyze and synthesize various data like benefit utilization, internal feedback, external benchmarking information 
• Partner with internal stakeholders on compliance and finance-related deliverables 
• Project manage various benefits and wellness-related initiatives and events – ex: Bridgewater's annual Open Enrollment, 'Mental Health Awareness Month', and others 
• Help visualize the wellness program's goals and annual programming 

Note that the final responsibility set/leveling will be dependent on our hire's background and skillset.  

We are looking for candidates with the following minimum qualifications: 

• At least 3+ years of benefits consulting or related experience in the benefits space 
• Excellent analytical skills; the capability to perform comprehensive research on benefits programs and utilize the output of that exploration to make informed choices 
• Superb detail orientation, a commitment to operational excellence, and the ability to run complex processes reliably and rigorously 
• Integrity, precision, security-mindedness, and strong judgement - especially in handling sensitive and complex employee information 
• Substantial experience working in Microsoft Suite (most critically Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)  

Physical Requirements 

For most of our roles, Bridgewater offers remote work flexibility, with most employees required to work on campus as their principal work location, a minimum of two days (and in some cases three days) per week with the option to work offsite on other days. 

Compensation 

The wage range for this role is $105,000 - $225,000 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 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 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