Immigration Associate, HR

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.

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.

About the Human Resources Department

The Human Resources Department has started to move from a renovation to a transformative phase by a continued focus on operational excellence and providing value to the customer. Today, Human Resources services span the gamut between providing basic information to employees regarding policies to partnering with managers to think through human capital implications. Through focused and interdepartmental initiatives, the Human Resources Department has moved towards automation and centralization of transactional work to create efficiencies and to raise the level of service offered to the enterprise.

About Your Role

The Immigration Associate will join Bridgewater’s HR Operations pillar as an independent, individual contributor providing end to end immigration support for our foreign national employees in partnership with our external legal counsel. This role demands a highly detail-oriented candidate with excellent customer service skills and care. The Immigration Associate role offers a unique opportunity to help Bridgewater run a world class Human Resources department by supporting our foreign national talent.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Manage foreign national immigration cases (ex. Obtaining work visas, navigating the green card process, providing guidance for internal travel and visa appointments)
• Execute the end-to-end process of the employee’s case
• Demonstrate care for employees and address questions they have
• Partner with our external legal counsel on immigration case strategy
• Ensure Bridgewater maintains compliance with relevant immigration regulations
• Collaborate with managers to implement transformation initiatives and projects within the Employee Relations space

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Minimum 1-3 years professional experience in Human Resources
  • Preference for paralegal and/or immigration case experience
• Highly organized, detail oriented and reliable – must be able to run multiple processes meticulously with minimal errors
• High level of empathy and care for customers
• Track record handling confidential issues with sensitivity and maturity
• Familiarity with Microsoft operating systems and/or tools (MS Office 365, Excel, Word, Outlook)

Physical Requirements

This role is offered with full remote work flexibility and can be performed anywhere in the United States. This approach is role specific and each team will have some slight variations that we will be able to describe in more detail throughout the recruiting process.

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $105,000 - $160,000 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