Product Manager - Remote, United States - Verra Mobility

Description

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 with the Government Solutions business, you will work alongside a team of product leads on hardware solutions, driving product strategy and execution, supporting the roadmap of our current portfolio, and managing the lifecycle of Verra Mobility's market leading hardware systems. As a member of the product management team, you will partner with leaders across the product, operations, engineering, IT, and sales teams to drive innovation and leverage the latest technologies to deliver best in class hardware systems that achieve business objectives. The successful candidate will be passionate about technology with an ability to manage variety of conflicting priorities to chart a way forward for the hardware portfolio, balancing global demands and pipelines. In this business critical role, you will merge customer needs with technology to cast a vision for Verra Mobility's legacy and future hardware solutions and drive the organization toward that goal. You will collaborate with key internal stakeholders to manage the cross-functional interplays across product life cycles and functions such as supply chain, engineering and operations to ensure high product quality while minimizing cost.

Essential 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
• 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 or other product lifecycle strategies
• Partner with engineering and support teams to ensure the optimal design and delivery of solutions
• Partner with sales, operations and supply chain to manage demand and supply considerations from a product lifecycle perspective
• Guide the product engineering team to scope, plan and deliver work, applying established delivery 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 internal hardware operational and execution standards (e.g., forecasting, production-ready vs prototype)
• Define, track, and communicate relevant KPIs for the product to measure performance and contribution to business goals and strategy.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Mechanical, Electrical, 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 computer vision technologies and camera hardware
• Knowledge of or interest in image and video processing and pipelines a plus
• Knowledge of mobility and road safety a plus
• 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
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship at this time

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.
• Lead with Grace. We express humility and compassion, and we are authentic and candid. Our employees demonstrate self-awareness, care for others, instill trust, and communicate effectively.
• 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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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.