Who is Flock?

Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep communities safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone.

Our holistic public safety platform is comprehensive and intelligent, providing the actionable evidence needed to solve, deter and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses and entire cities. Without compromising transparency or privacy, we are turning unbiased data into objective answers.

Flock strives to offer a career-defining experience where you can also make an impact on your community. While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fulfilling relationships even when we are physically apart. Our group of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. 

We have raised over $700M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Bedrock Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $7.5B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.

The Opportunity

Flock Safety is seeking a dynamic and experienced Manager, Cyber Defense to lead the team responsible for protecting our networks, systems, and data from cyber threats. You will play a critical role in developing and executing proactive security strategies, leading incident response, and fostering a culture of cyber resilience across the organization.

This is a hands-on leadership role, ideal for someone with deep technical expertise in cybersecurity, experience managing SOC or cyber defense initiatives, and shaping the security strategy for a hypergrowth company.

The Skillset

• Oversee the operation of security monitoring and incident response processes, ensuring timely detection and resolution of threats.

• Develop and continuously improve Flock Safety’s detection and response capabilities, including playbooks, tools, and automation workflows.

• Collaborate with engineering and IT teams to implement preventive controls and harden systems and networks.

• Act as an escalation point and lead investigations during major security incidents and post-incident reviews.

• Analyze threat intelligence and provide insights to enhance the security posture.

• Define metrics and KPIs to measure the effectiveness of cyber defense operations.

• Support compliance initiatives (e.g., CJIS, SOC 2, NIST, ISO 27001) through technical controls and documentation.

• Contribute to Flock’s security awareness efforts and ensure security best practices are embedded across teams.

• Hands-on experience with the following security tools: SumoLogic, Abnormal, Sentinel 1, Permiso, Google Workspace/Vault

• Strong knowledge of cloud security (AWS preferred), endpoint security, network security, and secure software development practices.

• Familiarity with security frameworks and standards (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, CIS, etc.).

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to interface with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Feeling uneasy that you haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay; we’ve felt that way too. Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day.

90 Days at Flock

We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe to 90 day plans and believe that good days, lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired in this role at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• Conduct a current state assessment on cyber defense capabiltiy

• Build a short, medium, and long term cyber defense roadmap

• Review and recommend enhancements to incident response operating procedures

• Establish operating procedures for cyber threat hunting and insider threat

The First 60 Days

• Lead threat hunting procedures to identify malicious activity on Fl