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 $500M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $5.5B 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 

Come join the growing legal team at Flock! We are seeking a self-motivated and experienced transactional attorney who is passionate about commercial contracts, enthusiastic about technology and its potential to drive safety in our communities.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in contract negotiation, drafting, and review, with a focus on revenue and procurement contracts. This role will be critical in ensuring our legal and business objectives are met while mitigating risk, and will require significant cross-functional collaboration with the sales organization, engineering teams, finance and marketing departments, while acting as an advisor to various business units across the organization.  

Our dream candidate will be a team player that is comfortable bouncing ideas off of their peers and supporting a fast growing remote-first start-up company while making decisions that will guide, solve and push for our collective success. This position reports to the Deputy General Counsel.

• Negotiate complex commercial contracts, including SaaS, licensing, services, and procurement agreements

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into effective legal terms

• Identify and address potential legal and business risks in contracts

• Prepare commercial agreements (MSAs, vendor agreements, licensing, etc.) with a knowledge of a customer’s needs and ability to fulfill its requirements

• Collaborate with Sales and Finance leadership to prioritize customer and business needs

• Review contract terms and conditions to verify that they are in compliance with company policies and any applicable federal and state regulations

• Clearly explain contract terminology to customers and other interested parties in simple, everyday language

• Proofread, edit, and fact-check legal documents for accuracy and consistency

• Track and maintain key terms/non-standard requests in a standardized manner (e.g., tracking in a CLM)

• You are collaborative -- ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with individuals throughout the company

• Provide counsel to sales teams, marketing, customer success and product divisions

The Skillset 

• 5+ years of legal experience, with prior in-house counsel experience focusing on negotiating and drafting contracts/commercial agreements

• Experience negotiating, drafting, and advising clients on technology-related commercial contracts, Cloud, or SaaS representing an enterprise business

• Experience with legal negotiation with government entities, private companies, and customers on contract terms and provisions

• Experience and comfort working with Slack, Salesforce, Docusign, Coupa and/or other cloud-based software tools

• Negotiate and draft master subscription agreements, vendor agreements, professional services agreements and other types of agreements with customers in support of U.S. Sales

• Respond promptly to legal requests from Revenue Team, Marketing, Engineering and Software Teams, Machine Learning and other clients, summarizi