Product Owner

Who we are

Verra Mobility Commercial Services is a global leader in smart mobility, creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for millions of vehicles around the world through connectivity with hundreds of tolling and issuing authorities. As a future focused organization, we are looking for people who want to create relevant solutions today that will work tomorrow ensuring more people around the world reach their destination safely and easily.

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 the Product Owner for the Connected Vehicle Solutions business within the Commercial Services portfolio, you will play a pivotal role in translating business needs into actionable technical requirements. As a key member of the product management team, you will serve as the bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring the product vision is effectively transformed into deliverable outcomes. You will oversee a suite of applications and guide a dedicated software scrum team, evaluating and prioritizing features to maximize performance and deliver value to clients and end users. Your responsibilities will include leading meetings to identify product issues, shaping product roadmaps, and managing daily goals to ensure high performance and timely delivery. You will own and maintain the product backlog, aligning it with strategic initiatives and collaborating closely with engineering and product teams to ensure seamless execution. Clear and consistent communication of system updates to stakeholders will be essential to your success in this role.

Essential Responsibilities

• Act as the interpreter between business and technology groups regarding requirements and system capabilities
• Understand and translate the product vision into standard SDLC requirement documentation (via PRDs, process flows, epics, features, stories) to ensure development team's understanding of the problem statement and business need
• Build and maintain a backlog of stories/features to support the product roadmap and work closely with product to ensure synchronization with business initiatives
• Manage and communicate system application updates to stakeholders
• Document application functionality & perform validation checks to ensure business requirement/design specifications alignments
• Play a leading role for the team in fulfilling Agile software development efforts including:
• Lead requirements gathering effort on the epics, as needed — consulting with product management, implementations, clients, and other stakeholders
• Document story details based on the epics in coordination with development
• Actively participate or lead scrum meetings including standups, retrospectives, and demos
• Own backlog grooming to decompose and estimate stories and project level of effort
• Collaborate with UX to create mockups and support design efforts Document application functionality and validate alignment with business requirements.
• Write clear user acceptance criteria and support UAT/integration testing.
• Demonstrate product iterations to stakeholders and gather feedback.
• Communicate system updates and release notes to internal and external stakeholders.Promote cross-team collaboration in the development of software, tools and processes to drive continuous improvement in product quality and operational excellence
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to ensure the optimal design and delivery of solutions
• Active involvement in all stages of the product life cycle to ensure that the solution fulfils business requirements
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Technology, or related field
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in the following:
• Participating in large-scale strategic and multi-faceted projects with a proven ability to meet delivery deadlines and deliver required functionality
• Agile methodology and Business System Analysis
• Creating business use cases and business process diagrams and flows
• Gathering and documenting business/technical requirements and functional/non-functional specifications
• Development of User Stories and managing backlog
• Requirements analysis including documenting as-is and designing to-be business processes
• Strong ability to build credibility, organize effectively, solve problems quickly and communicate clearly
• Demonstrated agility and ability to navigate complex environment
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Experience with Azure DevOps and Aha! tools (preferred)
• Background in Intelligent Transportation Sector, Automotive or Tolling Industries (preferred)
• Familiarity with cloud solutions, SaaS applications, CRM systems, mobile application development, APIs (a plus)
  
  
  

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.