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At Verra Mobility, we’re working toward a safer, smarter, more connected future. One that uses technology to elevate transportation and make navigating everyday life safer, easier and more efficient. For commuters, for pedestrians, for bicyclists and more, we’re committed to driving the change we can see. And now, it’s your turn. Get up to speed with all the opportunities at Verra Mobility, and get your career moving faster and further than you ever thought possible.
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VP, Product Platform & Engineering
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Position Overview:
The Vice President of Product & Platform Engineering will lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of the technology platforms that enable the company’s product operating model. This executive owns the end‑to‑end architecture across infrastructure, platforms, applications, and DevOps, ensuring that product squads/trios are fully enabled to build, deploy, and scale customer solutions with speed and autonomy.
They will develop a scalable, secure, and developer‑friendly platform ecosystem that accelerates innovation while maintaining reliability, performance, and operational excellence. As a hands‑on technical leader, the VP will bridge product strategy and engineering execution, providing the architecture, tooling, and infrastructure necessary to support modern product development and deliver scalable, resilient technology solutions.
Essential Responsibilities:
Platform & Infrastructure Strategy
- Define and lead the long-term platform engineering strategy supporting the organization’s product roadmap and growth.
- Own the architecture and delivery of core platform capabilities, including infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and shared services.
- Establish a scalable, resilient cloud architecture and infrastructure foundation.
- Drive adoption of modern platform engineering practices such as internal developer platforms, platform-as-a-product, and self-service infrastructure.
Architecture Leadership
- Own enterprise-level application and platform architecture.
- Define standards for system design, microservices architecture, APIs, and data architecture.
- Ensure platforms and services are designed for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure architectural alignment across product squads.
Product Operating Model Enablement
- Enable the organization’s product squad/trio operating model by providing shared platform services, architecture frameworks, and developer tooling.
- Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, and Engineering leaders to ensure squads can build and deploy quickly without reinventing core capabilities.
- Ensure teams have access to reusable components, APIs, and platform capabilities that accelerate delivery.
DevOps & Engineering Enablement
- Own DevOps strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity tooling.
- Drive improvements in developer experience, release velocity, and system reliability.
- Lead adoption of observability, monitoring, and incident management practices.
- Build a culture of automation, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement.
Reliability, Security, & Scalability
- Ensure platform and infrastructure systems meet high standards of uptime, security, and compliance.
- Partner with security and compliance teams to embed secure-by-design engineering practices.
- Establish and maintain SRE and operational excellence practices.
Core Leadership Competencies:
Strategic Mindset
- Leads long‑term platform and architecture strategy aligned to product and business growth.
- Bridges product strategy with engineering execution and platform enablement.
Ensures Accountability
- Owns end‑to‑end architecture, platform, and DevOps delivery.
- Sets and enforces standards for performance, security, reliability, and operational excellence
Builds Effective Teams (Builds & Coaches Effective Leadership Teams)
- Builds and develops high‑performing engineering and platform teams.
- Coaches leaders and fosters a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.
Customer Focus (Enterprise Level)
- Enables product squads to deliver customer value quickly and safely.
- Provides scalable platforms, tools, and reusable components that improve customer outcomes.
Cultivates Innovation
- Drives adoption of internal developer platforms and self‑service infrastructure.
- Builds a developer‑centric ecosystem that accelerates innovation across teams.
Decision Quality
- Makes high‑impact architectural and technical decisions for scale, security, and reliability.
- Prioritizes infrastructure and tooling investments to maximize delivery velocity and stability.
Communicates Effectively
- Aligns with Product, Engineering, Security/Compliance, and Data leadership.
- Communicates complex technical strategies with clarity and executive impact.
Complex Ecosystem Delivery
- Orchestrates delivery across infrastructure, architecture, DevOps/SRE, and platform domains.
- Leads large‑scale cloud, distributed systems, and platform transformations.
Qualifications:
- Extensive experience (12+ years) in software engineering and platform/infrastructure leadership, including leading large‑scale engineering or platform organizations.
- Proven track record building and scaling cloud‑native platforms, distributed systems, and modern product operating models.
- Deep technical expertise in cloud platforms, microservices, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, CI/CD, DevOps/SRE, container orchestration, observability, and API/service architectures.
- Strong strategic and communication skills, with the ability to translate business goals into technical strategy and align diverse stakeholders.
- Demonstrated success building high‑performing engineering teams and driving developer experience and productivity in fast‑paced environments.
Preferred:
- Experience with SaaS or large‑scale digital platforms, internal developer platforms, and modernizing legacy systems to cloud‑native architectures.
- Familiarity with product‑led development and agile squad models.
This position is not eligible for sponsorship now or in the future and you must be locally located and comfortable commuting into office.
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.
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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Ready to apply?
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