Systems Solutions Manager

Join the world's largest HVAC company, named by Forbes as one of America's Best-In-State Employers 2025! Make your mark at Daikin Applied, where we are seeking a visionary Systems Solutions Manager (SSM) to define and champion the future of our integrated HVAC system solutions. This high-impact role is ideal for a systems thinker who thrives at the intersection of engineering, customer insight, and market influence.

About the Role

The Systems Solutions Manager will own the development of a compelling systems narrative—internally and externally—translating complex HVAC capabilities into differentiated, customer-centric solutions. Leveraging deep expertise in HVAC system design and a nuanced understanding of customer challenges, this leader will identify and orchestrate critical system-level attributes, technologies, and service offerings that deliver value beyond individual components. This includes defining integrated system approaches such as heat pump–based electrification, hybrid plant architectures, and smart, connected HVAC systems that deliver measurable outcomes in energy efficiency, sustainability, indoor environmental quality (IEQ), and building performance.

The SSM will shape and influence the roadmap for next-generation technologies, products, and integrated solutions, developing strategic frameworks to inform innovation priorities and accelerate execution. This role will also bring these solutions to life in the market by creating compelling content and thought leadership that educates, engages, and influences customers, elevating Daikin’s position as a trusted solutions partner.

This role intersects with the entire solution lifecycle—from ideation and strategy through stakeholder alignment, development, and go-to-market deployment. The SSM will act as a trusted subject matter expert (SME) in HVAC systems, partnering closely with marketing, sales, product, and leadership teams to drive alignment, enablement, and business impact.

Responsibilities

• Innovation & Roadmap Influence: Translate customer pain points into differentiated, integrated HVAC solutions strategies and drive alignment with business units and internal stakeholders to shape product and solutions roadmaps based on an aligned system strategy.
• Systems Expertise & Technical Leadership: Serve as a trusted SME, translating deep knowledge of HVAC system design, performance, and application into actionable guidance.
• Customer & Field Sales Engagement: Deploy content to communicate systems narratives to engineers, developers, architects, and end users through direct engagement and presentations.
• Voice of Customer & Market Intelligence: Continuously capture field feedback, monitor competitive dynamics, and translate insights into actionable opportunities. Maintain a prioritized list of opportunities for content development, new technology exploration, and system solutions.
• New Product Development Commercialization Support: For new products under development, ideate and guide the product manager on how these products will integrate into the broader Daikin system story, and manage creation of content deliverables to support the product launch.
• Thought Leadership & Content Creation: Develop high-impact technical content (white papers, webinars, presentations, and publications) that communicates system-level value to the market, educating and influencing the adoption of Daikin solutions.
• Industry Representation & Brand Advocacy: Represent Daikin Applied within key professional organizations (e.g., ASHRAE, USGBC, AEE) to enhance brand credibility and influence industry direction.
• New Technology Evaluation: Guide organizational M&A and internal technology development prioritization by delivering early-stage assessments for potential technology opportunities for systems solutions enablement.
• Travel: Support Daikin customer sales events and gather voice of customer feedback through business travel. 25-35% travel is typical, with flexibility to support up to 50% in any given month.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university in Engineering or a related field.
• 8-10 years of relevant experience in the HVAC industry.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills with a team-oriented mindset.
• Proven ability to align different stakeholders with competing priorities toward a common goal.
• Sales-aware mindset with the ability to influence customer design decisions and guide solution alignment.
• Project management skills to coordinate efforts across multiple groups to influence without authority.
• Deep HVAC experience, preferably with a variety of systems—both air-side and chilled water.
• Strong storytelling and communication skills, capable of independent operation.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Coachable, with innate curiosity to drive professional growth.
• Ability to articulate both HVAC system-level design and product-level technical detail in executive and customer-facing settings.

Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Professional Engineering (P.E.) license.
• Demonstrated writing capability.
• Energy modeling experience.
• Familiarity with key industry mega trends such as decarbonization, the refrigerant transition, and IAQ.
• Established industry group participation or leadership (e.g., ASHRAE).
• HVAC system design experience as a consulting engineer or sales rep.

Benefits

• Multiple medical insurance plan options, plus dental and vision insurance.
• 401K retirement plan with employer contributions matching 100% of the first 3% of employee contributions and 50% on the next 2%.
• Company-provided life insurance, plus optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance, dependent life coverage, and voluntary accident coverage.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• 3 weeks of paid time off for new employees, plus 11 company-paid holidays (vacation accrues on a monthly basis, unless applicable federal, state, and local law requires a faster accrual).
• Paid sick time in accordance with federal, state, and local law.
• Paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement after 6 months of continuous service.

Pay

The typical annual base salary for this position ranges from $113,800 to $193,900, with a bonus potential up to 20% in Minnesota.

Schedule

This is a remote position based in the U.S., with 25-35% travel required (flexibility to support up to 50% travel in any given month).