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 hiring a Director of Information Security, reporting to the Chief Security Officer. Flock’s Security Organization works across product teams, infrastructure organizations and security functions in a collaborative and engineering-driven environment to improve information security of our entire company in how we secure over a thousand Flock employees.

We are looking for a security leader to join our organization who is capable of working well with IT, HR, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering teams to secure our endpoints, SaaS applications and networks. You will make a difference to Flock’s security and privacy by leading organizational and technical change.

This position requires strong cross-organizational leadership, communication skills, deep technical security knowledge and being very hands-on with security designs, threat modeling, security reviews, vulnerability management and end-to-end security controls.

What You'll Do

You will be expected to lead the organization that is responsible for:

• Orchestrate cross-functional collaboration to develop comprehensive security protocols and ensure adherence.

• Engage with senior technical leadership to provide expert guidance on regulatory compliance.

• Strategically develop robust security policies and controls for endpoints like laptops and remote work environments.

• Craft and implement data-centric policies to safeguard financial records, sales data, product information, and HR data.

• Ensure security for corporate SaaS environments through continuous monitoring, threat detection, and vulnerability management.

• Drive adoption of automation and advocate for cutting-edge security tools.

• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate potential delivery risks across all organizational functions.

• Escalate significant delivery risks and critical issues to higher management.

• Collaborate to establish and evolve security policies, standards, and risk management practices with Risk and Compliance.

The Skillset

• Minimum of 10 years of direct management experience in Security Leadership roles.

• Proven ability to plan and independently direct security initiatives, both hands-on engineering and managerial responsibilities.

• Experience managing and responding to a security breach.

• Adaptability to the rapid learning and ambiguity inherent in fast-evolving fields like AI.

• Demonstrate and maintain core expertise in one or more security infrastructure disciplines, enabling leadership through proficiency.

• Experience with Application Security, Okta SSO, Sentinel1 or similar.

• Experience collaborating with security infrastructure, networking, and IT teams, with the capability to scale a team across multiple product suites.

• Established record of effectively managing large-scale systems and implementing various security posture maintenance strategies.

• Prior experience with Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), particularly in conducting vendor security assessments.

• Proven ability to work effectively with busin