Project Coordinator, Real Estate Strategy & Workplace Experience

<p><strong>About Bridgewater</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. &nbsp;</p>

<p>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. &nbsp;</p>

<p>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. &nbsp;</p>

<p>Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bridgewater.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>. &nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Our Culture</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are&nbsp;objective, competitive, and getting smarter&nbsp;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&nbsp;what's&nbsp;true about your problems and opportunities, you can&nbsp;determine&nbsp;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 –&nbsp;it's&nbsp;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.&nbsp;The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a <a href="https://www.bridgewater.com/culture/bridgewaters-original-philosophy" rel="noopener noreferrer">Philosophy Statement </a>which&nbsp;remains&nbsp;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&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bridgewater.com/culture/bridgewaters-idea-meritocracy" rel="noopener noreferrer">Meritocracy.</a>&nbsp;Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right,&nbsp;it’s&nbsp;the engine that powers everything else.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Explore more information about Bridgewater’s culture on our website <a href="https://www.bridgewater.com/principles-and-culture" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>About the Role</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p>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. &nbsp;</p>

<p>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.&nbsp;</p>

<p>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.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>You Will Drive the Following Responsibilities</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Day-to-Day Operations</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<ul>

<li>Maintain the calendar and coordinate logistics across internal and external stakeholders for two RESE Directors with established processes.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Manage accurate, up-to-date trackers, agendas, and meeting minutes that support informed decision-making and track follow-throughs.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Maintain organized file systems and support RESE's SharePoint pages so information stays current and accessible for our customer base.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Maintain access controls by ensuring visitors are tracked in our system of record, and badges are deployed by the direction of RESE Directors.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Manage expense reports for incurred RESE costs.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Run the team's feedback machine and processes within established deadlines&nbsp;</li>

<li>Support onboarding logistics and resources for new RESE team members.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Execute ad-hoc administrative tasks (eg catering requests, tech tickets, printing, etc)&nbsp;</li>

</ul>

<p><strong>Small Project Ownership</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<ul>

<li>Own defined, bounded projects end to end — examples include a conference room reconfiguration, signage changes — covering scope, timeline, vendor coordination, and closeout.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Independently manage vendor quotes and scheduling for these projects, escalating only when cost, schedule, or scope shifts materially.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Report status and outcomes on owned projects directly to the Directors as a discrete workstream.&nbsp;</li>

</ul>

<p><strong>Documentation &amp; Playbook Ownership</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<ul>

<li>Own and maintain RESE's standard operating playbooks and guiding-principles documentation as programs run through them.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Document &amp; improve workflows and process changes as they're adopted, including AI-enabled workflows, so they're repeatable without relying on institutional memory.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Maintain Blu FAQ content and flag or resolve gaps and contradictions as they're discovered.&nbsp;</li>

</ul>

<p><strong>Issue &amp; Risk Tracking</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<ul>

<li>Maintain and triage the Smoke Tracker / issue log, categorizing new issues by severity and flagging pattern-level risks to the Directors.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Exercise judgment on what needs escalation versus what can be resolved directly and document the reasoning.&nbsp;</li>

</ul>

<p><strong>Qualifications</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<ul>

<li>Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and execute reliably in a fast-paced environment.&nbsp;</li>

<li>High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy, consistency, and follow-through.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Clear and professional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across stakeholders.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Experience supporting operations, project coordination, administrative functions, or logistics.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Sound judgment in identifying when to escalate risks, issues, or ambiguities, and doing so clearly and promptly.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Comfort operating in a transparent, feedback-driven environment — proactively surfacing gaps and risks, and giving/receiving direct feedback.&nbsp;</li>

<li>Proficient in Outlook; comfort working with tools such as, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePo</li></ul>