Director - New Ventures - Water Quality Platform

Imagine yourself…

• Collaborating with a vibrant, diverse, global team.
• Joining a company with a proven track record of success and an exciting future.
• Contributing to a brighter, more sustainable future.

At Veralto, our unifying purpose of Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™ is more than words: it’s a proven path towards positive change, improvement for our planet, and development for yourself.

As part of Veralto’s Water Quality segment, the work you’ll do will contribute to a safer world and a more sustainable future. In partnership with our Water Quality companies, you’ll help ensure that 3.4 billion people—over 40% of the world’s population—have safe drinking water every day.

And when you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 14 operating companies and nearly 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have boundless opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career.

This role is posted in multiple locations for advertising purposes, but one opening is available. Preferred location is hybrid at one of Veralto’ s operating company locations, but also open to remote.

We offer:

• Paid holidays and a permissive paid time off policy emphasizing flexibility and trust
• Total rewards that support your success at work and beyond, including comprehensive health benefits, a 401(k) savings plan with employer match, and associate wellbeing programming with rewards

The Director – New Ventures is a strategic leader within the Veralto Water Quality Platform (WQP), reporting to the Vice President, General Manager of Innovation & New Ventures. Working alongside the Director of Customer Insight, Director of Open Innovation, and the WQP CTO, this role is pivotal in shaping the platform’s growth through the identification, evaluation, and advancement of high-potential venture opportunities.

This leader is responsible for building and driving a robust pipeline of strategic new venture opportunities that directly address the Water Quality Platform’s most valuable customer problems. You will act as a connector between the external innovation ecosystem and Veralto’s operating companies, translating promising technologies into actionable investment and partnership opportunities. Leveraging deep market insight and disciplined process execution, you will ensure the most promising ventures are surfaced, rigorously assessed, and positioned for adoption. This is an opportunity to influence Veralto’s long-term growth trajectory by shaping how we engage with the startup and investment community, while working at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and market impact.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• 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.

The essential requirements of the job include:  

• 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.

Travel:

• Approximately 30% domestic and international travel to operating companies, innovation ecosystem partners, and industry events.
• Hybrid/remote flexibility with regular engagement across the organization.

With annual sales of $5 billion, Veralto is a global leader in essential technology solutions with a proven track record of solving some of the most complex challenges we face as a society. Our industry-leading companies with globally recognized brands are building on a long-established legacy of innovation and customer trust to create a safer, cleaner, more vibrant future.

Veralto’s Water Quality companies—Aquatic Informatics, ChemTreat, Hach, McCrometer, OTT HydroMet, Sea-Bird Scientific, Trojan Technologies, and XOS—manage, treat, purify, and protect the global water supply, from municipal and wastewater treatment facilities to lakes, rivers, watersheds, and oceans. And our Product Quality & Innovation companies—Esko, Linx, Pantone, Videojet, and X-Rite—protect the world’s food, medicine, and essentials by tracking and authenticating the billions of goods that travel the global supply chain every day. Veralto is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with 300+ locations worldwide.

US ONLY: 

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $200,000 - $245,000 USD per year. This job is also eligible for Bonus Pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law. 

US residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve.  Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.
 

Unsolicited Assistance

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at any of the Veralto companies, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Veralto and its companies. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Veralto and its companies because of the unsolicited referral.