Product Manager

Summary

Join Verra Mobility as a Product Manager for Government Solutions, leading backoffice (cloud data processing) solutions. Drive product strategy and execution, define the roadmap, and manage the lifecycle of market-leading systems. Partner with product, operations, engineering, IT, and sales teams to drive innovation and deliver best-in-class systems. Merge customer needs with technology to create a vision for future backoffice solutions. Collaborate with stakeholders to manage systems across their life cycles, gathering requirements, scoping initiatives, and ensuring high product quality. This business-critical role requires a passion for technology and the ability to lead innovation and execution. The successful candidate will manage investment decision making and finances for the product, taking a return-on-investment approach.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, or another engineering / technical degree, or equivalent practical experience required
• Minimum 5 years working in technology and product development
• Minimum 3 years in defining requirements, journey mapping, and prototyping based on user needs
• Minimum 3 years leading product strategy, including scoping projects and charting/maintaining roadmaps
• Broad understanding of cloud and compute technologies, such as AWS/Azure, multimedia data processing, data storage/management, artificial intelligence, and how APIs work)
• Excellent skills in critical thinking, problem solving, and analysis
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Solid written & verbal communication skills and gifted in interpersonal interactions (e.g., collaboration, consensus building, conflict management, etc.)
• Ability to foster positive client interactions while challenging and probing for insights
• Experience driving cross functional teams across all levels and functions
• Ability to function in a fast-paced, dynamic environment - managing diverse priorities
• Must be able to travel 20% of the time

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

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA a plus
• Knowledge of APIs and a passion for developer experience a plus
• Knowledge of or interest in image and video processing and pipelines a plus
• Knowledge of mobility and road safety a plus