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Vice President Product, Design
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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.
Position Overview:
The Vice President of Product Design will lead and scale a world‑class, multi‑disciplinary organization spanning Product Design, Research, Content Design, and Design Operations. This executive owns experience strategy across Verra’s connected‑mobility portfolio, translating complex customer and business needs into clear, human‑centered product experiences that drive adoption, trust, and measurable outcomes. This role is a key driver of Verra Mobility’s evolution toward a modern Product Operating Model—empowering durable, cross‑functional product teams to continuously discover, experiment, and deliver solutions that solve real customer problems, rather than simply executing projects or managing handoffs.
As a senior leader within Verra’s Product Operating Model, this role partners closely with Product Management and Engineering to embed design deeply into product strategy and delivery. The VP will establish scalable design systems, research‑driven insights, and operating practices that empower durable, cross‑functional teams to continuously discover, experiment, and deliver high‑quality solutions that solve real customer problems. Success is measured by customer impact, speed and quality of delivery, and the long‑term strength and effectiveness of the design organization.
Key Responsibilities
Design Leadership
- Build and scale a high-performing design organization (Product Design, UXR, Content Design, DesignOps) with a clear org model, leveling rubric, career paths, and succession planning.
- Create a strategic hiring plan (in-house + partner ecosystem), manage budget, and establish vendor strategy for surge and specialized needs.
- Foster a culture of craft excellence, curiosity, and accountability—with consistent critique, coaching, and peer development.
- Establish a clear engagement model that embeds design and research directly within durable product teams—rather than operating as a shared service—supported by defined decision rights and expectations.
- Coach design leaders and teams to operate with high autonomy and accountability, embracing “strong opinions, loosely held” and prioritizing evidence over escalation.
Experience & Product Strategy
- Translate company strategy and the 2026 priorities into a cohesive experience vision, north-star journeys, and an outcome-oriented experience strategy and set of prioritized customer opportunities portfolio roadmap that aligns across Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market.
- Define how we measure design’s impact on customer and business outcomes (adoption, retention, revenue influence, operational efficiency).
- Define experience principles and guardrails that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining a cohesive customer experience - ensuring clarity, consistency, accessibility, trust, and safety.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to translate strategy into outcomes and problems to solve, not feature lists, empowering teams to determine the right solutions.
Research, Insights & Evidence-Based Decisions
- Establish a rigorous UXR practice (qualitative, quantitative, and telemetry) and a research repository that continuously feeds discovery and de-risks decisions.
- Champion continuous discovery in empowered product teams (field observation, rapid testing, experiment design) and ensure insights are valid, actionable, and durable.
- Establish and champion a continuous‑discovery cadence where weekly routines include customer conversations, fast prototyping, and data‑driven experiments, replacing long, infrequent research cycles.
- Enable teams to instrument experiences with meaningful leading indicators—task success, time‑to‑value, error rates, trust/confidence signals—so decisions are measured by impact, not activity.
Design Systems & Accessibility at Scale
- Treat the design system as a product—with a roadmap, governance, and documented tokens/patterns that accelerate delivery of coherent, accessible experiences.
- Define standards for accessibility, internationalization, security, and regulatory compliance across web, mobile, and device interfaces (SaaS/IoT).
- Shift governance from top‑down approval to scalable enablement, offering reusable patterns, templates, and self‑serve tools that preserve quality without slowing teams down.
Delivery Excellence & Portfolio Governance
- Implement lightweight, team‑owned delivery practices that support continuous delivery - clear intent, rapid iteration, measurable outcomes, and defined quality bars - while maintaining predictable design workflows (briefs, milestones, QA, handoff) that balance craft with delivery velocity.
- Run portfolio-level design reviews to ensure cross-product coherence, reduce design/tech debt, and make trade-offs transparent and deliberate.
- Ensure discovery and delivery are tightly connected - teams should validate assumptions before building and refine solutions through iterative releases, reducing big‑batch handoffs and phase‑gate cycles.
Product Operating Model Enablement
- Embed the Product Trio model (Product, Design, Engineering) at the team level, fostering shared ownership of outcomes, clear decision rights, and empowered judgment.
- Improve organizational decision quality by standardizing discovery practices—opportunity framing, prototype testing, assumption mapping, and experiment design—and coaching leaders to ask better questions rather than request additional artifacts.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to shift away from project‑model behaviors (heavy upfront requirements, downstream design, output‑based commitments) toward true outcome‑based accountability.
Cross-Functional Executive Partnership
- Operate as an equal partner to Product and Engineering in vision, roadmapping, and prioritization; shape scope to protect experience quality while hitting timelines.
- Collaborate with Marketing, CX, and Sales to ensure end-to-end journey consistency and equip field teams with clear narratives and artifacts (demos, playbooks).
- Reinforce an outcomes‑focused culture by valuing learning, customer impact, and smart decision‑making—not excessive artifacts or cosmetic perfection.
The ideal candidate will bring the following capabilities:
- Customer Focus: Keeps the customer’s voice central via research, testing, and telemetry - driving measurable improvements in adoption, efficiency, and satisfaction.
- Strategic Mindset: Shapes a north-star experience vision aligned to business strategy and evolving user/technology trends in the connected-mobility ecosystem.
- Product Operating Model Transformation: Demonstrated success institutionalizing a modern Product Operating Model with empowered cross-functional teams, clear decision rights, discovery-first practices, accountability and transparency.
- Executive Decision Quality: Makes timely, evidence-based calls using data, research, and prototypes; ensures ownership and alignment across functions.
- Accountability: Sets high standards for craft and delivery; defines outcomes and builds a culture of ownership, clarity, and reliable follow-through.
- Talent & Team Leadership: Scales and mentors a diverse org; strengthens cross-functional partnership; fosters a high-performance, growth-oriented environment.
- Innovation: Drives experimentation and prototyping; converts learning—successful or not—into repeatable patterns and systems.
- Executive Communication & Influence: Tells a compelling story with clarity and empathy; aligns executives and teams around journeys, rationale, and trade-offs.
- Coaching & Empowerment: Demonstrated ability to coach leaders and teams toward empowered, evidence‑based decision‑making—reducing reliance on centralized approvals while improving both quality and speed.
- Systems Thinking: Skilled at designing the overall “system of work”—including team interfaces, governance mechanisms, metrics, and incentives—so that healthy product behaviors become the natural default.
Qualifications
- 10+ years in Product/UX Design with 5+ years leading and scaling design teams; prior experience owning a multi-disciplinary design organization strongly preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Business or a related field of study; advanced degree preferred.
- Track record building design practices in B2B SaaS and/or IoT/platform environments in highly regulated environments; mobility, telematics, or operations-intensive domains a plus.
- Demonstrated success in design systems ownership, UX research leadership, and evidence-based decision-making.
- Portfolio of shipped platform products showing simplification of complex domains and measurable impact on trust, usability, and adoption.
- Strong partner to Product & Engineering; fluency with experimentation, analytics, and business metrics.
- Demonstrated success working in empowered product team environments (continuous discovery + continuous delivery), with comfort operating through outcomes, constraints, and decision principles rather than detailed plans.
- Experience defining and using experience metrics (e.g., task success, time-to-value, error rates, trust signals) to guide strategy and investment decisions.
Verra Mobility Values
An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:
- Own It. We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
- Do What’s Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
- Choose Courage Over Comfort. We lean into the conversations, decisions and actions that move the business forward, even when they feel uncomfortable. We challenge assumptions, address issues early and prioritize progress over ease.
- Win Together. We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.
With your explicit consent which you provided as part of the application process, we will retain candidate personal data solely for the business purpose for which it was collected. In no event will we retain such data more than two (2) years following the closure of the recruitment process relating to the role for which you applied or in the event other related job opportunities arise within the company. Verra Mobility Applicant Privacy Notice
Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
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Vice President Product, Emerging Markets
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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.
Position Overview:
The Vice President of Product for Emerging Markets is a transformative executive responsible for identifying, validating, and accelerating new product opportunities across high-growth, early-stage markets. This leader will build and scale a modern, experimentation-driven product organization focused on discovering unmet customer needs, rapidly testing hypotheses, and developing product concepts that can evolve into meaningful new revenue streams.
This role serves as Verra Mobility’s venture builder for opportunities that fall outside existing business units but have the potential to become significant new revenue streams—whether through new products, new customer segments, new channels, or adjacent mobility markets. The mandate is not to build long roadmaps, but to generate validated learning and commercial traction through rapid discovery‑delivery loops—failing fast, pivoting decisively, or doubling down with conviction.
As the executive owner of product strategy for emerging markets, this leader connects deep market understanding with bold product innovation—transforming ambiguous, cross‑functional problems into clear, testable concepts with the potential to scale. Success is measured by the quality of decisions, the pace of learning, and real‑world traction: customer value, willingness‑to‑pay signals, scalable go‑to‑market pathways, and operational/regulatory feasibility. What matters isn’t the number of experiments—it’s the speed and rigor with which ideas are validated, de‑risked, and converted into viable businesses.
Product Operating Model:
This role institutionalizes a modern Product Operating Model for incubation—empowered, cross‑functional product teams that own outcomes, iterate continuously, and operate with explicit decision rights and evidence‑driven governance.
Graduation Expectation:
Concepts that demonstrate repeatable traction are thoughtfully transitioned into a business unit (or become the seed of a new one) with clear accountability and a defined scaling plan - ensuring validated concepts transition to clear ownership.
Key Responsibilities
Product Leadership & Organizational Build
- Build and lead a high-performing emerging markets product organization, including Product Management, Product Discovery, Research, and Experimentation Operations.
- Foster a culture of speed, curiosity, and experimentation - where assumptions are challenged, and decisions are driven by evidence.
Emerging Market & Product Strategy
- Translate company strategy into a clear emerging markets vision, including opportunity areas, hypotheses to test, and a multi-year incubation portfolio.
- Develop and maintain a continuously re‑prioritized opportunity backlog—framed as customer problems to solve (and for whom)—with explicit hypotheses, constraints, and clear “kill criteria.”
- Build a dynamic opportunity roadmap informed by customer needs, market trends, competitive insights, and technology shifts.
- Define success criteria for early-stage concepts to progress from exploration → validation → incubation →
- Define a clear portfolio thesis - identifying where Verra Mobility has meaningful, differentiated advantage (data, distribution, regulatory expertise, fleet and municipal relationships, transaction scale) and outlining which types of opportunities are out of scope.
- Lead portfolio investment decisions with executive partners by setting small‑bet budgets, establishing evidence‑based stage gates, and making explicit tradeoffs across the incubation portfolio.
Discovery, Research & Validation
- Establish a rigorous discovery practice combining qualitative research, market analysis, rapid prototyping, and quantitative validation.
- Ensure that product decisions are backed by customer insight, data, and well-designed experiments - not intuition alone.
- Build a reusable “insight-to-opportunity” engine that continuously identifies and de-risks opportunities across new markets, segments, and geographies.
- Institutionalize continuous discovery: Ensure every venture team has direct customer engagement, leverages prototypes to test value and usability, and validates viability - including pricing and willingness‑to‑pay - early in the process, not post‑
- Standardize decision artifacts as enablers, not bureaucracy: Introduce concise Opportunity Briefs and Decision Briefs that clearly articulate hypotheses, supporting evidence, risks (including regulatory), and the next tests required.
Experimentation & Testing at Scale
- Operationalize a structured approach to experimentation with clear frameworks for hypothesis creation, test selection, success metrics, and learnings.
- Champion lean product methodologies: rapid prototyping, MVP/MVT strategies, pilot programs, and incremental validation.
- Ensure findings are actionable, measured, and reused across the product teams.
- Establish learning‑velocity metrics that matter: how quickly teams reach real customers, run their first tests, generate early revenue signals, and advance through the explore → validate → incubate → scale pipeline—while avoiding metrics that reward experiment volume over insight.
- Drive disciplined risk testing: ensuring teams validate the critical risks up front—value, usability, feasibility, and commercial viability.
New Product Incubation & Cross-Functional Delivery
- Partner with Engineering, Design, and Data to bring early-stage concepts to life through prototypes, beta releases, and pilot implementations.
- Balance speed with quality—help teams ship quickly while protecting the integrity of the customer experience.
- Set up evidence‑based investment governance: use clear stage gates, decision rights, funding steps, and data‑driven “continue / pivot / stop” reviews, supported by simple portfolio oversight.
- Create a repeatable path to scale: transition validated opportunities into business units with defined ownership, staffing, roadmap integration, tech and support readiness, and commercial enablement.
Go-to-Market Alignment & Commercial Readiness
- Partner with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to test messaging, identify segments, develop field-tested value propositions, and validate pricing models.
- Ensure GTM teams have clear, evidence-backed narratives, early product training, and pilot playbooks.
- Test distribution paths from day one: pressure‑test channel strategy, acquisition costs, sales cycles, procurement barriers, and partner readiness early, ensuring scalability before meaningful investment.
- Launch lighthouse pilots designed with crisp success criteria and a repeatable playbook rather than bespoke, one‑off solutions.
Talent, Culture & Evangelism
- Build an organization where teams feel psychologically safe to explore, experiment, and fail forward.
- Increase product and experimentation literacy across the broader business through training, workshops, and storytelling.
- Act as a visible thought leader for innovation, emerging markets, and new product development.
- Create organizational visibility into learning: publish a clear portfolio learning record that documents assumptions, tests, insights, and decisions—enabling the organization to build on shared knowledge instead of reinventing or repeating past missteps.
Ideal Candidate Competencies
- Customer Focus: Deeply committed to understanding emerging customer segments, uncovering latent needs, and driving validated learning.
- Strategic Vision: Able to define a compelling emerging markets strategy grounded in market signals, competitive landscapes, and technology shifts.
- Entrepreneurial Mindset: Operates with the urgency and creativity of a startup founder—resourceful, scrappy, decisive, and hypothesis-driven.
- Product Incubation Expertise: Demonstrated success incubating 0→1 products, building MVPs, designing experiments, and validating new markets.
- Evidence-Based Decision Making: Uses data, research, prototypes, and pilots to make timely, high-quality decisions.
- Organizational Builder: Strong track record of building diverse, empowered, cross-functional product teams.
- Innovation Leadership: Creates systems that accelerate learning, reduce risk, and generate repeatable patterns for product innovation.
- Executive Communication: Skilled in influencing across the C-suite, articulating opportunities, trade-offs, and strategic implications with clarity and empathy.
- Product Operating Model Leadership: Proven track record of creating empowered, outcome‑driven product teams with clear decision authority and strong cross‑functional collaboration across Product, Design, and Engineering.
- Portfolio & Bet Discipline: Skilled in running a disciplined venture portfolio—driving small, smart bets; fast learning cycles; evidence‑based stop/pivot/scale decisions; and scaling only when traction is real.
- Systems Thinking & Integration: Adept at architecting how early‑stage ventures move from incubation to scale, aligning platform, operational, regulatory, and GTM requirements into a cohesive path.
Qualifications
- 10+ years in Product Management, Innovation, Strategy, or related functions, with 5+ years building and leading product teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science or a related field of study.
- Proven experience developing 0→1 products, validating new markets, and driving early-stage product development cycles.
- Background in B2B SaaS, platforms, IoT, mobility, telematics, or adjacent innovation-focused domains in highly regulated markets preferred.
- Strong command of experimentation frameworks, research methodologies, and metrics for early-stage product validation.
- Demonstrated ability to bring concepts from exploration to market traction and measurable commercial outcomes.
- Highly collaborative partner to Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, and Executive leadership teams.
- Product Operating Model fluency: Hands‑on experience working in (or leading change toward) a modern product model built on continuous discovery, continuous delivery, empowered teams, and accountability to real outcomes.
- Strength in complex, regulated environments: Comfortable navigating operationally intensive or regulated spaces where technical, operational, and compliance feasibility must be proven early in the lifecycle.
- Disciplined venture portfolio mindset: A track record of advancing what works and stopping what doesn’t.
Verra Mobility Values
An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:
- Own It. We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
- Do What’s Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
- Choose Courage Over Comfort. We lean into the conversations, decisions and actions that move the business forward, even when they feel uncomfortable. We challenge assumptions, address issues early and prioritize progress over ease.
- Win Together. We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.
With your explicit consent which you provided as part of the application process, we will retain candidate personal data solely for the business purpose for which it was collected. In no event will we retain such data more than two (2) years following the closure of the recruitment process relating to the role for which you applied or in the event other related job opportunities arise within the company. Verra Mobility Applicant Privacy Notice
Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
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Vice President Product, Government Solutions
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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 dynamic, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Choose Courage Over Comfort, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with a bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.
Position Overview
Help us shape the future of Mobility. Our organization is at a pivotal inflection point, transforming from a project-based, IT-centric execution model to a modern Product Operating Model. We’re seeking a visionary VP of Product, Government Solutions to lead this transformation and own outcomes across our Government Solutions product portfolio. This role reports to the SVP, Head of Product with accountability and a dotted line reporting relationship to the EVP, Government Solutions.
Our solutions integrate cameras, radar sensors, AI-powered edge processing, SaaS back-office software, payment systems, and managed maintenance services into end-to-end platforms trusted by government customers. Our vision is to protect lives and increase roadway safety through innovative technology and reliable services and ensure our solutions remain smart, safe, and connected at scale.
You’ll evangelize a compelling product vision, coach and empower product teams, and turn real customer problems into scalable, compliant, high-reliability solutions. You’ll stand up and coach empowered product teams—led by Durable Trios of Product, Engineering and Design, spanning hardware, AI, SaaS and services—to solve real customer problems and drive measurable business and customer impact. While you won’t directly own a P&L, your work will move the business - driving sustainable growth, profitability, and customer success.
You will lead the shift from output-focused delivery to business results that matter and drive customer value. You will cultivate deep, real-world understanding of customer needs, and you’ll get teams to engage with customers early and often to test their ideas so that we deliver valuable, viable, usable and feasible solutions.
If you are a strategic leader who thrives on transformation, inspires teams, and delivers measurable impact, this is your opportunity to redefine how we build products and shape the future of mobility.
Essential Responsibilities
Product Vision & Strategy
- Own and Inspire Product Strategy for Government Solutions: Define and communicate a compelling, insight driven product vision and strategy aligned with the company’s mission, vision, and business goals. Ensure team objectives clearly connect to organizational priorities and desired customer outcomes.
- Define the North Star: Craft and champion a unified product vision that brings together a diverse portfolio into a seamless, customer-centric ecosystem.
- Shift to Outcome-Based Objectives: Move the organization from sales-driven feature lists to problem-focused, outcome-driven plans. Success will be measured by business outcomes including customer retention, increasing adoption, and driving margin expansion.
- Team Topology & Portfolio Strategy: Continuously optimize the Team Topology (organization structure) to minimize dependencies and prioritize opportunities that drive growth and innovation. Sets portfolio and product objectives tied to customer and financial impact.
Organizational Transformation & Leadership
- Institutionalize the Product Model: Design an effective Team Topology that fosters cross-collaboration across Product Management, Engineering, and Design as a partnership of missionaries that accelerates cross-functional collaboration and innovation
- Coach World-Class Talent: The single most important responsibility of this role is to coach your product managers to mastery. Recruit, coach, and retain exceptional product leaders. Elevate Product Design as a strategic peer to Engineering and Product Management, ensuring a balanced and customer-centric approach. Develops Director-level Product Managers and Leads as coaches, improving the organization’s capacity to discover, decide, and deliver.
- Be a Cultural Change Agent: Drive a mindset shift to problem-solving. Bridge the gap between operational excellence and future innovation, creating a culture that thrives on solving customer challenges in a meaningful and innovative manner. Foster a culture of empowered, outcome-driven product teams, where success is measured by outcomes, not output.
Execution & Delivery
- Drive Product Discovery and Delivery: Champion a customer-centered discovery process, working closely with Engineering and Product Design to confront risks early, validate and deliver impactful solutions. Balance innovation with the practical realities of government procurement and compliance.
- Manage Business Viability: Balance innovation with the practical realities of government procurement and compliance. You ensure solutions work for our business (legal, sales, finance), not just the user.
- Platform Modernization: Collaborate with Engineering to lead the systems migration to modern, microservices-based platforms that increase agility, scalability, and strengthen customer acquisition.
- Discovery-First Mindset: Champion a culture of continuous product discovery. Ensure teams validate value, usability, feasibility, and viability before writing code, minimizing waste and maximizing impact.
- Customer Focus: Serve as a trusted product leader in conversations with government customers, policymakers, and community stakeholders. Champion discovery and continuous learning to ensure products address real-world needs.
- Outcome-Driven Governance: Oversee the Quarterly Product Business Review process to provide transparency into product health, strategic alignment, outcome metrics, data-driven insights and share learnings on what is and isn't working.
We’re looking for a transformative product leader with a proven track record of driving strategy, execution, and cultural change at scale. The ideal candidate will bring the following capabilities:
Enterprise Product Strategy
- Ability to define and sustain a cohesive product vision that aligns customer problems, business strategy, and technology possibilities across a complex, multi-portfolio organization.
Coaching & Staffing
- Proven ability to assess product managers and coach them to competency. Expertise in shifting teams from output-focused delivery to outcome-based accountability.
Team Topology & Portfolio Strategy
- Strong judgment in defining team boundaries (topology) and allocating capacity across core platforms, modernization, and new growth initiatives, making decisions to maximize enterprise value.
Product Operating Model Transformation
- Demonstrated success institutionalizing a modern Product Operating Model with empowered cross-functional teams, clear decision rights, discovery-first practices, accountability and transparency.
Executive Decision Quality
- Ability to make timely, high-quality decisions under ambiguity by balancing customer needs, financial return, technical feasibility, business viability and risk, while enabling decision velocity across the organization.
Talent & Organizational Leadership
- Track record of building, coaching, and retaining high-performing product, design, and engineering leaders, elevating capability and fostering strong cross-functional partnership.
Executive Communication & Influence
- Exceptional ability to communicate product strategy, trade-offs, and outcomes with clarity and credibility to the CEO, Board, and senior leaders, building alignment across diverse stakeholders.
Domain Fluency in Complex Ecosystems
- Competency in managing products at the intersection of hardware, software, and the physical world. Ability to navigate high-compliance environments and understand logistics, supply chain, and maintenance implications of hardware-enabled software.
Qualifications
- Experience:10+ years of product leadership experience, with at least 5 years at the senior leadership or VP level in a medium-to-large public software or technology-enabled services company. Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science or a related field of study. Master’s degree preferred.
- Transformation Track Record: Demonstrated success in transforming feature-team organizations into empowered product team organizations.
- Domain Expertise: Experience in complex B2B/B2G/B2C environments; GovTech, transportation, public safety, IoT/Smart City, FinTech, defense tech or other regulated markets strongly preferred. You understand how to innovate in complex high-compliance, hardware-enabled environments where software interacts with the physical world.
- Strategic Financial Acumen: Ability to speak the language of the C-Suite and Board. You understand how to connect product KPIs to financial outcomes
- Technical Fluency: You possess a deep understanding of modern platform architecture (APIs, microservices, cloud migration) and can partner effectively with Engineering leadership to reduce technical debt and enable innovation
- Change Management: Exceptional interpersonal skills and resilience. You are capable of driving alignment across Business Units and functional partners to deliver a unified customer experience. Demonstrated ability to instill an empowered product culture: outcome-driven teams, customer focus, and strong business acumen
Verra Mobility Values
An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:
- Own It. We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
- Do What’s Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
- Choose Courage Over Comfort. We lean into the conversations, decisions and actions that move the business forward, even when they feel uncomfortable. We challenge assumptions, address issues early and prioritize progress over ease.
- Win Together. We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.
With your explicit consent which you provided as part of the application process, we will retain candidate personal data solely for the business purpose for which it was collected. In no event will we retain such data more than two (2) years following the closure of the recruitment process relating to the role for which you applied or in the event other related job opportunities arise within the company. Verra Mobility Applicant Privacy Notice
Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
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Senior Vice President Head of Product
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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 dynamic, entrepreneurial company that operates with a people-first philosophy and approach. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Choose Courage Over Comfort, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with a bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.
Position Overview
Help us shape the future of Mobility. Our organization is at a pivotal inflection point, transforming from a project-based, IT-centric execution model to a modern Product Operating Model. We are seeking a visionary Senior Vice President, Head of Product to lead this evolution and report directly to the CEO.
In this role, you will architect and scale a product organization built on Durable Trios, collaborating across Product, Engineering, and Design, aligned to customer value streams. Your mission: institutionalize this model and empower teams to solve complex, high-impact challenges for customers that include the world’s largest rental car agencies, major municipalities, universities and Departments of Transportation.
This role requires a strategic leader who can balance modernizing core platforms with fueling new growth engines, from connected services to advanced mobility solutions. You will lead the shift from output-focused delivery to business results that matter and drive customer value. Cultivating deep, real‑world understanding of customer needs to inspire the right solutions. If you are a strategic leader who thrives on transformation, inspires teams, and delivers measurable impact, this is your opportunity to redefine how we build products and shape the future of mobility.
Essential Responsibilities
Product Vision & Strategy
- Define the North Star: Craft and champion a unified product vision that brings together a diverse portfolio into a seamless, customer-centric ecosystem.
- Shift to Outcome-Based Roadmaps: Move the organization from sales-driven feature lists to problem-focused roadmaps. Success will be measured by business outcomes including customer retention, increasing adoption, and driving margin expansion.
- Portfolio Leadership: Manage investments with rigor, making strategic decisions to optimize resources and prioritize opportunities that drive growth and innovation.
Organizational Transformation & Leadership
- Institutionalize the Product Model: Establish the structure for effective cross-collaboration across Product Management, Engineering, and Design as the standard delivery unit. Foster true collaboration to accelerate innovation.
- Build World-Class Talent: Recruit, coach, and retain exceptional product leaders. Elevate Product Design as a strategic peer to Engineering and Product Management, ensuring a balanced and customer-centric approach.
- Be a Cultural Change Agent: Drive a mindset shift to problem-solving. Bridge the gap between operational excellence and future innovation, creating a culture that thrives on solving customer challenges in a meaningful and innovative manner.
Execution & Delivery
- Platform Modernization: Collaborate with the CTO to lead the systems migration to modern, microservices-based platforms that increase agility, scalability, and strengthen customer acquisition.
- Discovery-First Mindset: Champion a culture of continuous product discovery. Ensure teams validate value, usability, feasibility, and viability before writing code, minimizing waste and maximizing impact.
- Outcome-Driven Governance: Oversee the Quarterly Product Business Review process to provide executive visibility into product health, strategic alignment, and outcome metrics with high-context, data-driven insights.
We’re looking for a transformative product leader with a proven track record of driving strategy, execution, and cultural change at scale. The ideal candidate will bring the following capabilities:
Enterprise Product Strategy
- Ability to define and sustain a cohesive product vision that aligns customer value, business strategy, and financial outcomes across a complex, multi-portfolio organization.
Outcome-Driven Execution
- Expertise in shifting teams from output-focused delivery to outcome-based accountability, driving measurable impact in adoption, retention, efficiency, and growth.
Portfolio & Investment Leadership
- Strong judgment in allocating capital and capacity across core platforms, modernization, and new growth initiatives, making disciplined trade-offs, to maximize enterprise value.
Product Operating Model Transformation
- Demonstrated success institutionalizing a modern Product Operating Model with empowered cross-functional teams, clear decision rights, discovery-first practices, and effective governance.
Executive Decision Quality
- Ability to make timely, high-quality decisions under ambiguity by balancing customer needs, financial return, technical feasibility, and risk, while enabling decision velocity across the organization.
Talent & Organizational Leadership
- Track record of building, coaching, and retaining high-performing product, design, and engineering leaders, elevating capability and fostering strong cross-functional partnership.
Executive Communication & Influence
- Exceptional ability to communicate product strategy, trade-offs, and outcomes with clarity and credibility to the CEO, Board, and senior leaders, building alignment across diverse stakeholders.
Domain Fluency in Complex Ecosystems
- Competency in managing products at the intersection of hardware, software, and the physical world. Ability to navigate high-compliance environments and understand logistics, supply chain, and maintenance implications of hardware-enabled software.
Qualifications
- Experience:15+ years of product leadership experience, with at least 5 years at the C-level or VP level in a medium-to-large public software or technology-enabled services company. Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science or a related field of study. Master’s degree preferred.
- Transformation Track Record: Demonstrated success in modernizing product operating models and moving team mindsets to agile methodologies
- Domain Expertise: Experience in complex B2B/B2G environments, IoT, Smart City, or FinTech is highly preferred. You understand how to innovate in complex high-compliance, hardware-enabled environments where software interacts with the physical world
- Strategic Financial Acumen: Ability to speak the language of the C-Suite and Board. You understand how to connect product outcomes to financial outcomes
- Technical Fluency: You possess a deep understanding of modern platform architecture (APIs, microservices, cloud migration) and can partner effectively with Engineering leadership to deliver new value.
- Change Management: Exceptional interpersonal skills and resilience. You are capable of driving alignment across Business Units and functional partners to deliver a unified customer experience.
Verra Mobility Values
An ideal candidate for this role naturally works in alignment with the Verra Mobility Core Values:
- Own It. We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.
- Do What’s Right. We champion integrity and good character. Our team members model ethical behavior, demonstrate good judgment and are courageous.
- Choose Courage Over Comfort. We lean into the conversations, decisions and actions that move the business forward, even when they feel uncomfortable. We challenge assumptions, address issues early and prioritize progress over ease.
- Win Together. We believe in growing and inspiring people together. We seek people who collaborate, value differences, think and act globally, foster an engaging work environment, and recognize and develop others.
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