Product Manager

Who we are...

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. We develop technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. We are fostering the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities to install over 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for over 8.5 million vehicles. And we are a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year across 50+ individual tolling authorities. 

Culture 

Verra Mobility Corporation is a rapidly-growing, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Lead with Grace, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow aggressively, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with these five core competencies: bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.

Position Overview:

As a Product Manager on the New Product Introduction (NPI) team within the Government Solutions business, you will play a pivotal role envisioning and building our next-generation products including our new cloud-based Back Office system. As a member of the product management team, you will partner with leaders across product, sales, operations, engineering, and marketing to drive innovation and leverage the latest technologies to deliver best-in-class software solution that drive business outcomes. A successful candidate will be customer-obsessed, passionate about technology, and have an ability to balance innovation with execution. In this business-critical role, you will merge customer needs with technology to cast a vision for Verra Mobility’s future software solutions and drive the organization toward that goal. You will collaborate with key internal stakeholders to manage software solutions across their product lifecycles, gathering requirements, scoping initiatives, conducting rapid experimentation, establishing product roadmaps, and working with engineering and support teams to ensure high product quality while reducing costs.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of business goals and processes to inform product priorities and improvement recommendations 

• Develop strong relationships and regularly communicate with product stakeholders and customers to shape the product strategy and surface and prioritize needs 

• Monitor business, market, and technology trends to inform product strategy and proactively propose new solutions

• Maintain a roadmap and release plan that effectively prioritizes the delivery of features and technologies to meet customer needs while providing best in class solutions to our markets 

• Contribute to translating business requirements into actionable product and technical requirements through prototyping and MVP definition

• Continuously monitor and evaluate product performance and proactively champion product improvements, making recommendations in the form of business cases and securing business approval

• Determine internal and contract/partner/external resources and skills required to deliver on the product roadmap

• Partner with engineering and support teams to ensure the optimal design and delivery of solutions 

• Guide the product engineering team to scope, plan and deliver work, applying established delivery methodologies (e.g., agile methods) and best practices (e.g., reusability)

• Proactively identify and resolve blockers to achieve business objectives for the product, including technical and resourcing challenges

• Ensure alignment and adherence to corporate, financial and IT standards (e.g., architecture, compliance, security)

• Manage investment decision making and finances for the product, taking a return-on-investment approach to increasing the value while minimizing product costs

• Define, track, and communicate relevant KPIs for the product to measure performance and contribution to business goals and strategy

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or related engineering / technical degree, or equivalent practical experience, MBA a plus 

• 3-5 years of experience working in technology and product development, with a focus on executing product strategies, user discovery, defining requirements, and building/maintaining roadmaps

• Prior experience with 0 to 1 product development a plus, including comfort working in undefined or rapidly evolving contexts – constantly evaluating trade-offs and managing competing priorities

• Broad understanding of cloud and compute technologies, such as AWS/Azure, multimedia data processing, data storage/management, artificial intelligence, and APIs

• Ability to foster positive customer interactions while challenging and probing for insights

• Excellent skills in critical thinking, structured problem solving, and data-driven analysis

• Solid written & verbal communication skills and gifted in interpersonal interactions (e.g., collaboration, consensus building, conflict management)

• Experience driving cross functional teams across all levels and functions 

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail 

• Experience and interest working on products that have a large compliance or regulatory component, or aptitude for similar types of requirements-heavy products

• Knowledge of the transportation/smart mobility sector and road safety a plus

• Position requires occasional travel to engage with customers and participate in team meetings (approx. 10-20% of time)

• • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship at this time