Campus Talent Associate

Bridgewater Associates is recruiting for Campus Talent Associate in Westport, CT & New York City. This listing was last seen on the firm's own job board on August 22, 2026.

Macro investing with a culture built on recorded debate, which is itself the hardest part of the process.

What sets Bridgewater Associates apart: Radical transparency, with meetings recorded and openly critiqued. Macro and economic reasoning rather than statistical arbitrage. Culture assessment weighted as heavily as technical rounds.

The role, as Bridgewater Associates describes it, published on December 17, 2025 and reproduced from their job board:

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…

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 identifying 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.