Corporate Legal Operations Associate

Bridgewater Associates • Westport, Connecticut, United States • $110k - $225k / year • 4m ago

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

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. The 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, 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.

About the Legal & Regulatory Group:

The Legal & Regulatory Group is responsible for partnering with Bridgewater businesses to protect the legal and regulatory interests of the firm and its clients and managing legal and regulatory risk to ensure that employees act in accordance with the highest legal and ethical standards. Our group maintains in-house expertise in many areas, including corporate, investment management, private funds, intellectual property, employment and commercial law and compliance. The team works closely with a broad range of departments within the firm and manages relationships with external counsel and regulatory consultants.

About the role:
The Corporate Legal Operations Associate will provide general administrative and paralegal support to Bridgewater’s Legal team and respond to requests with appropriate action and confidentiality. The Legal and Regulatory team is seeking an Operations Associate to support and partner with our senior counsel on a broad range of functions, including (1) document management and organization; (2) project management and tracking; (3) contract review and drafting; (4) corporate governance assisting with entity annual filings and registrations; and (5) preparation of presentations and communications for internal and external use. The ideal candidate will be intellectually curious and able to independently navigate multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

Interface with various departments to collect information/documents, respond to requests and obtain services on behalf of managers

Create, edit and format documents using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Pro and Litera (compare software)

Manage files on internal document management systems, and support knowledge management initiatives (including organizing and maintaining legal resources, templates, and precedent documents for easy access by the team)

Update matter management system and other shared/collaborative sites

Interface with outside counsel and staff

We are looking for candidates with the following minimum qualifications:

At least 3-5 years administrative or paralegal experience supporting multiple attorneys; experience working in a fast-paced law firm environment and/or corporate legal department strongly preferred

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Superior organizational skills

Ability to draft and execute communications and legal documents

Strong writing skills

Ability to handle multiple tasks in a high-pressure environment

Excellent skills in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Adobe

Physical Requirements:

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

Compensation:

The wage range for this role is $110,000-$225,000 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 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.

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