Veralto

Director, New Ventures – Water Quality Platform

Veralto

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Colorado, Virginia

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $245,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Manage the Water Quality Platform’s new ventures funnel, ensuring accurate tracking, prioritization, and continuous advancement of high-potential opportunities.
  • Develop and maintain a comprehensive startup database with insights on maturity, funding history, IP, team, and relevance to WQP needs.
  • Lead the preparation of strategic materials for periodic Minority Investment Funnel Reviews, synthesizing market signals and internal analyses into clear recommendations.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with startups, venture funds (including those where Veralto is an LP), accelerators, and other innovation partners.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with platform and operating company leaders to ensure venture opportunities align with the WANT list of prioritized customer problems.
  • Apply the Veralto Enterprise System (VES) to drive standard work and efficient execution in external innovation workflows.
  • Monitor industry and adjacent market trends to identify emerging technologies and companies with disruptive potential.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical or scientific field.
  • Advanced degree or MBA preferred.
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in strategy, innovation, business development, or technical leadership, preferably in industrial or technology-driven markets.
  • Exceptional ability to build trust and strong relationships across all organizational levels, from operating company leaders to technical teams.
  • Demonstrated success mobilizing stakeholders around innovation initiatives in a matrixed environment.
  • Strong strategic thinking, business acumen, and ability to translate complex opportunities into prioritized, actionable recommendations.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, adaptable for technical, commercial, and executive audiences.
  • High level of self-direction, ownership, and comfort navigating ambiguity.
  • Familiarity with emerging technologies and the startup ecosystem, or a demonstrated ability to learn and engage rapidly.
  • Experience with pipeline management, opportunity assessment, and executive review processes.
  • Preferred Exposure to external innovation ecosystems, especially in water, sustainability, or industrial technology sectors.
  • Experience working with global or distributed teams.