Manager Product Design

About the role

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility, developing technology-enabled solutions to foster safer and more convenient urban movement. We operate in diverse sectors including traffic safety, fleet management, and tolling systems, serving clients across North America and beyond. Our company culture emphasizes a people-first approach, encouraging innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design Leadership: Advocate for design within empowered product teams, guiding designers to create human-centered experiences that simplify complexity and build trust.
• Experience Impact: Deliver intuitive, consistent, and accessible designs that increase customer satisfaction and adoption.
• Design System Acceleration: Manage the design system as an internal product, accelerating its adoption through coherent, accessible patterns, and treating empowered product teams as the primary customer.
• User Advocacy: Champion user needs and usability throughout discovery and delivery, ensuring design decisions are grounded in evidence and aligned with measurable outcomes.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as an equal partner to Product and Engineering in shaping product vision and strategy, participating in discovery, scope definition, and trade-off decisions to balance experience quality with delivery velocity.
• Team Development: Coach and mentor designers, fostering creativity and collaboration, and building a culture where design accelerates impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in UX/UI or product design, including leadership roles.
• Expertise in design systems, user research, and evidence-based design practices.
• Experience in SaaS or IoT platform companies, serving as a design leader within empowered product teams.
• Proven ability to translate complex challenges into simple, human-centered experiences.
• Skilled in guiding teams through discovery and delivery in cross-functional environments.
• Strong communicator and advocate for design’s strategic role.
• Passion for driving measurable impact on trust, usability, and adoption.