Project Coordinator, Real Estate Strategy & Workplace Experience

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 because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.

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About the Role

This team’s mandate is to design and deliver a workplace experience that builds vibrant campuses, strengthens community across our businesses, and reduces outsized overhead — because strong relationships and collaboration drive better outcomes, and both depend on getting the workplace right. RESE carries that mandate day to day: managing occupancy across two campuses, building new spaces as demand increases, and evolving the client and employee experience at 295.

We're looking for a Project Coordinator to help run that work well. You'll sit close to action of critical decisions, and you'll own the systems that keep a small, high-standards team moving: trackers, agendas, logistics, and the team's feedback rhythms. It's a hands-on way to learn how real estate and workplace strategy actually get executed, with real ownership from day one.

Success here requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, the ability to reliably run execution processes, sound judgment, good customer hands, ability to escalate risks, and comfort operating in a transparent, feedback-driven environment. Prior exposure to real estate or project management is a plus, but it is not required.

You Will Drive the Following Responsibilities

Day-to-Day Operations

• Maintain the calendar and coordinate logistics across internal and external stakeholders for two RESE Directors with established processes.
• Manage accurate, up-to-date trackers, agendas, and meeting minutes that support informed decision-making and track follow-throughs.
• Maintain organized file systems and support RESE's SharePoint pages so information stays current and accessible for our customer base.
• Maintain access controls by ensuring visitors are tracked in our system of record, and badges are deployed by the direction of RESE Directors.
• Manage expense reports for incurred RESE costs.
• Run the team's feedback machine and processes within established deadlines
• Support onboarding logistics and resources for new RESE team members.
• Execute ad-hoc administrative tasks (eg catering requests, tech tickets, printing, etc)

Small Project Ownership

• Own defined, bounded projects end to end — examples include a conference room reconfiguration, signage changes — covering scope, timeline, vendor coordination, and closeout.
• Independently manage vendor quotes and scheduling for these projects, escalating only when cost, schedule, or scope shifts materially.
• Report status and outcomes on owned projects directly to the Directors as a discrete workstream.

Documentation & Playbook Ownership

• Own and maintain RESE's standard operating playbooks and guiding-principles documentation as programs run through them.
• Document & improve workflows and process changes as they're adopted, including AI-enabled workflows, so they're repeatable without relying on institutional memory.
• Maintain Blu FAQ content and flag or resolve gaps and contradictions as they're discovered.

Issue & Risk Tracking

• Maintain and triage the Smoke Tracker / issue log, categorizing new issues by severity and flagging pattern-level risks to the Directors.
• Exercise judgment on what needs escalation versus what can be resolved directly and document the reasoning.

Qualifications

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and execute reliably in a fast-paced environment.
• High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy, consistency, and follow-through.
• Clear and professional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across stakeholders.
• Experience supporting operations, project coordination, administrative functions, or logistics.
• Sound judgment in identifying when to escalate risks, issues, or ambiguities, and doing so clearly and promptly.
• Comfort operating in a transparent, feedback-driven environment — proactively surfacing gaps and risks, and giving/receiving direct feedback.
• Proficient in Outlook; comfort working with tools such as, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Claude, and ChatGPT, with the ability to learn new systems quickly.
• Based in or able to work primarily from Connecticut, with flexibility to travel to NYC as needed.
• Interest in real estate or project management is a plus.
• 1-2 years of experience owning a project or workstream end to end, not solely supporting one, is strongly preferred.

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $100,000 - $140,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.

Physical Requirements

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our Westport, CT office.

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. Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website 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