Donaldson is committed to solving the world’s most complex filtration challenges. Together, we make cool things. As an established technology and innovation leader, we are continuously evolving to meet the filtration needs of our changing world. Join a culture of collaboration and innovation that matters and a chance to learn, effect change, and make meaningful contributions at work and in communities.
Position Summary:
The Business Development Manager drives strategic growth and new business opportunities within the rapidly expanding data center liquid cooling market and emerging industrial applications. This role serves as the commercial and technical expert for advanced filtration and liquid cooling solutions, partnering with customers to improve thermal performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and sustainability. Qualified candidates must be able to work a remote schedule.
Role Responsibilities:
Strategic Business Development
Develop and execute growth strategies for liquid cooling filtration solutions within data centers, identifying and pursuing new business opportunities with hyperscale operators and other key customers.
Build relationships with engineering, operations, procurement, sustainability, and executive stakeholders to drive specification opportunities and early engagement in new facility designs and infrastructure upgrades.
Establish strategic partnerships with OEMs, system integrators, and engineering firms while developing long-term account growth plans.
Technical Leadership
Serve as the subject matter expert for liquid cooling filtration technologies, providing technical consultation on direct-to-chip cooling, immersion cooling, coolant filtration systems, closed-loop cooling systems, CDU filtration, and glycol and dielectric fluid filtration.
Evaluate customer cooling architectures and identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, and efficiency while supporting technology evaluations, pilot projects, and proof-of-concept testing.
Data Center Market Development
Drive growth opportunities across AI infrastructure deployments, hyperscale data centers, and next-generation cooling technologies.
Industry Engagement
Lead technical presentations and represent the company at industry conferences, trade shows, and technical forums.
Travel: Up to 60%
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical discipline
5+ years of experience in business development, technical sales, application engineering, or market development
Preferred Qualifications:
Demonstrated ability to sell engineered solutions with long and complex sales cycles.
Experience engaging technical and executive decision-makers.
Strong financial and business acumen with experience developing ROI-driven proposals.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Relocation: This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
Annual Salary Range: $100,000-130,000. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including, but not limited to, applicable work experience, training, education, and performance. Based on work location, geographic adjustment is included.
This position is eligible for sales incentive or commission plan, based on sales targets under company policy.
Employee benefits are part of the competitive total rewards package that Donaldson Company, Inc. provides to you. Our comprehensive benefits program includes health benefits, retirement plan (401k), paid time away, paid leaves (including paid parental leave) and more.
Immigration Sponsorship Not Available:
Applicants for this position must be currently and legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship (e.g., H-1B, J-1, F-1, CPT, OPT, etc.).
Donaldson will not offer immigration sponsorship or assume sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
International relocation or remote work arrangements outside of the U.S. will not be considered.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline
- 5+ years of experience in business development, technical sales, application engineering, or market development
- Ability to work remotely
- Ability to sell engineered solutions through long and complex sales cycles
- Experience engaging technical and executive decision-makers
- Strong financial and business acumen with experience developing ROI-driven proposals
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Current and ongoing U.S. work authorization without employer sponsorship
Donaldson Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Donaldson Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Donaldson Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs like a 401(k) match, profit-sharing, and an employee stock purchase plan are positioned as meaningful components of total compensation. Company materials consistently frame retirement benefits within a broader Total Rewards offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program with mental‑health resources create a comprehensive health and wellbeing package. Healthcare is often characterized as decent and a core strength of the overall offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and paid parental leave are explicitly included, alongside other company‑paid leaves such as bereavement, jury duty, and military leave. Some locations highlight multi‑week PTO from the first year, underscoring breadth of leave options.
Donaldson Company Insights
What We Do
Donaldson Company helps solve some of the world's most complex filtration and contamination control challenges, and is one of the largest global providers of unique filtration technologies and high-quality filters and parts. Our filtration technologies and products are used every day, in a variety of industries and environments, including aerospace, agriculture, construction, food and beverage, manufacturing, mining, power generation, transportation and many more. Key to our success, our 14,000 employees support customers at sales, manufacturing and distribution centers from over 140 locations on six continents. The filtration market continues to grow. Customers' needs for filtration solutions continue to evolve. And the opportunities for our products and our people continue to expand.
