Vice President, Commercial Services

Verra Mobility Chicago, IL
Full Time Executive Level 10+ years

Posted 2 weeks ago

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About This Role

This role involves leading product outcomes across Verra Mobility's Commercial Services portfolio, spearheading the transformation from an IT-centric model to a Product Operating Model. The VP will evangelize a compelling product vision, coach product teams to deliver scalable and compliant solutions, and drive measurable business and customer impact.

Responsibilities

  • Define and articulate a clear, insight-driven product strategy for Commercial Services aligned to company goals
  • Establish a unified vision that integrates a diverse product portfolio into a seamless customer-centric ecosystem
  • Shift the organization from roadmaps of features and dates to problem-focused, outcome-driven plans
  • Optimize investments and resource allocation, setting objectives that maximize customer value and financial impact
  • Establish Product, Engineering, and Design as a partnership that accelerates cross-functional collaboration and innovation
  • Recruit, develop, and coach top product leaders and strengthen director-level leadership
  • Champion a shift to empowered product teams where success is measured by outcomes, not output
  • Drive a customer-centered discovery process, working closely with Engineering and Product Design to validate and deliver impactful solutions
  • Manage business viability, balancing innovation with procurement and compliance realities
  • Collaborate with Engineering to lead the systems migration to modern, microservices-based platforms

Requirements

  • 10+ years of product leadership experience
  • 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
  • Demonstrated success in transforming feature-team organizations into empowered product team organizations
  • Experience in complex B2B/B2G/B2C environments
  • Ability to define and sustain a cohesive product vision across a complex, multi-portfolio organization
  • Proven ability to assess product managers and coach them to competency
  • Strong judgment in allocating capital and capacity across core platforms, modernization, and new growth initiatives
  • Demonstrated success institutionalizing a modern Product Operating Model
  • Ability to make timely, high-quality decisions under ambiguity
  • Track record of building, coaching, and retaining high-performing product, design, and engineering leaders
  • Exceptional ability to communicate product strategy, trade-offs, and outcomes to senior leadership
  • Competency in managing products at the intersection of hardware, software, and the physical world
  • Strategic financial acumen to connect product KPIs to financial outcomes
  • Deep understanding of modern platform architecture (APIs, microservices, cloud migration)
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills and resilience for driving alignment across Business Units

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science or a related field of study. Master’s degree preferred.
  • 10+ years of product leadership experience, with at least 5 years at the senior leadership or VP level

Nice to Have

  • Master’s degree
  • Background in automotive, mobility, connected vehicle, transportation tech, or adjacent B2B2C technology sectors

Skills

AI * APIs * Cloud migration * SaaS * Microservices *

* Required skills

About Verra Mobility

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility, developing technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. They work with police departments and municipalities for safety cameras and serve commercial fleets and rental car companies for tolling and violations management.

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