Product Owner

**Who we are...**

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. Verra Mobility Commercial Services creates smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for more than 8.5 million vehicles. Verra Mobility is a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year through connectivity with more than 50 individual tolling authorities and more than 400 issuing authorities. Arizona-based Verra Mobility Corp. currently operates in 15 countries and in 22 languages.

The company is constantly looking toward the future, ensuring it creates relevant solutions today that will work tomorrow. Seeking to understand new customers, regions, and businesses that will shape tomorrow's smart mobility experiences, Verra Mobility strives to ensure more people around the world reach their destination safely and easily. Keeping its core principles front and center, Verra Mobility is fueled by relationships, driven by impact, guided by what's right, and energized by what's next.

**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**

**Essential Responsibilities**
- Act as the interpreter between non-technology and technology groups regarding business 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 of product initiatives to backlog features/stories
- 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.
- Attend scrum meetings including standups, retrospectives, and demos.
- Participate in or lead backlog grooming to decompose and estimate stories
- Create mockups and works with UX on design.
- Answer questions from developers and clarify requirements.
- Document new features for implementations and release notes.
- Write business user acceptance criteria
- Demonstrate the latest iterations to customers (pre-release) and gather feedback
- Participate in integration/UAT test plan development and result review prior to functionality release.
- 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 project life cycle to ensure that the solution fulfils business requirements.

**Qualifications**
- 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
- Experience with Agile methodology
- Business System Analyst experience
- Creating business use cases and business process diagrams and flows
- Gathering and documenting business/technical requirements
- Development of User Stories and managing backlog
- Experience with technical and functional specifications
- Hands-on business process and 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 JIRA / Azure DevOps and Aha tools (preferred)
- Experience in Intelligent Transportation Sector or Tolling Industry (preferred)
- Advanced skills with MS Office tools: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio.

**Aligned with Verra Mobility Values**:

- **Do What's Right** - We're committed to doing the right thing for each other and for our customers - integrity is our DNA.
- **Lead With Grace** - We embrace the importance of our colleagues and customers and always treat them with kindness and grace.
- **Own It** - We foster a