Senior Human Resources Partner

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.

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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.

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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

We are currently seeking an exceptional HR/ER Business Partner to join our Employee Relations team.   The candidate should be client-service oriented with the maturity and initiative required to develop strategic relationships. This individual will be responsible for providing excellent thought partnership to managers and employees through both HR Business Partner and Employee Relations responsibilities, with an emphasis on protecting Bridgewater, ensuring managers have the human capital information required to make good business decisions and ensuring employees have an experience consistent with our principles.  The selected candidate will be handling a client population of between 200-400 employees. 

In this role, the Business Partners will work directly with some of our most senior leaders across the company to ensure that these goals are achieved excellently. They will handle some of the most sensitive and complex employee issues and be expected to problem solve, think independently, and help ensure risks are appropriately considered and mitigated.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Understanding the business and providing thought partnership to managers on human capital needs, HR policies and processes, and performance management to promote engagement and a culture of continuous growth and development.
• Mitigating legal risk and ensuring adherence to regulatory compliance and Bridgewater policies by recommending appropriate action in response to performance and employee relations issues (e.g., sexual harassment, ADA, FMLA, disciplinary action)
• Forming strong partnerships with internal and external employment counsel and the company’s general counsel
• Ensuring managers are up to speed on critical employment law and employee relations policies/practices
• Maintaining a pulse on the morale and challenges of employees within their client groups
• Providing a synthesized overview of human capital issues/trends and providing thought partnership on optimal ways of addressing them
• Providing guidance and resources/tools pertaining to human capital management
• Collaborating with HR functional partners to execute human resources strategies to enable business objectives and suppo