Senior Vice President Head of Product

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 4000 red-light speed and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways serving the worlds 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 valuesDo Whats Right Lead with Grace Win Together and Own Itin 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

Verra Mobility is at a pivotal inflection point. We are currently undertaking a strategic transformation to shift our organization from a project-based IT-centric execution model to a modern Product Operating Model. We are seeking a visionary SVP Head of Product to lead this evolution reporting directly to the CEO.

You will oversee a product organization currently being reset to operate in Durable Trios (Product Engineering and Design) aligned to customer value streams rather than temporary projects. Your mandate is to institutionalize this model ensuring our teams are empowered to solve hard problems for our customers - ranging from the worlds largest rental car agencies to major municipalities and Departments of Transportation.

This role requires a leader who can balance dual horizons: Protecting the Core by modernizing our legacy cash-cow platforms (such as the transition to the UNIFI and Mosaic platforms) while simultaneously fueling New Growth Engines in Connected Vehicle services European expansion and advanced transit solutions (MABLE). You will move the organization from output-focused feature delivery to outcome-focused business results.

Essential Responsibilities

Product Vision & Strategy

• Define the North Star: Craft and evangelize a cohesive product vision that unifies our diverse portfolio - Commercial Services (RAC/FMC) Government Solutions (Safety/Enforcement) and T2 Systems (Parking) - into a seamless One Verra ecosystem.
• Shift to Outcome-Based Roadmaps: Transition the organization away from sales-led feature lists to problem-based roadmaps. You will ensure teams are measured by business outcomes (e.g. reducing churn increasing adoption driving margin expansion) rather than just shipping code on dates.
• Portfolio Management: rigorous management of the investment portfolio making hard decisions to sunset legacy products (e.g. legacy e-commerce portals) to fund high-growth stars and moonshots like Connected Vehicle services and immersive curbside management.

Organizational Transformation & Leadership

• Institutionalize the Product Operating Model: Build upon the foundation of Project Catalyst. Ensure the Product Trio structure (PM Engineering Lead Design Lead) becomes the standard unit of delivery fostering true collaboration rather than siloed hand-offs.
• Talent Development: obsess over the quality of the product team. You will recruit coach and retain bar-raising talent specifically addressing the need to elevate Product Design to a strategic peer of Engineering and Product Management.
• Cultural Change Agent: Navigate the corporate immune system to shift the culture from mercenary (order-taking) to missionary (problem-solving). You will bridge the gap between our historic operational excellence and our future innovation needs.

Execution & Delivery

• Platform Modernization: Partner with the CTO to oversee the strategic migration from legacy monolithic systems (e.g. FlexPort Axsis legacy) to modern microservices-based platforms (UNIFI Mosaic) that increase agility and reduce customer acquisition costs.
• Discovery-First Mindset: Instill a culture of continuous product discovery. Ensure teams are validating value usability feasibility and viability before writing code minimizing waste on failed initiatives.
• Governance: Lead the Quarterly Product Business Review (QPBR) process to provide executive visibility into product health strategic alignment and outcome metrics replacing bureaucratic status checks with high-context strategic alignment.

Core Leadership Competencies

Enterprise Product Strategy

• Ability to define and sustain a cohesive product vision that aligns customer value business strategy and financial outcomes across a multi-portfolio organization.

Outcome-Driven Execution

• Proven capability to shift teams and leaders 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 initiativesmaking disciplined trade-offs including sunsetting legacy products 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 riskwhile 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.

IoT & Smart Mobility Domain Fluency

• Competency in managing products at the intersection of hardware software and the physical world. Unlike pure SaaS our software interacts with physical assetstolling transponders enforcement cameras and parking gates. You must understand the logistics supply chain and maintenance implications of hardware-enabled software and navigating high-compliance B2G regulatory environments.

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.
• Transformation Track Record: Demonstrated success in transforming legacy organizations into modern product operating models (specifically experience with Cagan-style empowered teams). You have a playbook for moving teams from waterfall/project mindsets to agile/product mindsets.
• Domain Expertise: Experience in complex B2B/B2G environments IoT Smart City or FinTech is highly preferred. You understand how to innovate in high-compliance hardware-enabled environments where software interacts with the physical world (cameras tolling infrastructure vehicles).
• Strategic Financial Acumen: Ability to speak the language of the C-Suite and Board. You understand how to connect product outcomes (NPS task completion rates) to financial outcomes (EBITDA expansion ARR growth CAC reduction).
• Technical Fluency: While not an engineer you possess a deep understanding of modern platform architecture (APIs microservices cloud migration) and can partner effectively with Engineering leadership to pay down technical debt while delivering new value.
• Change Management: Exceptional soft skills and resilience. You are capable of driving alignment across distinct Business Units (Government Commercial T2) and functional partners (Sales GR Operations) to deliver a unified customer experience.