Senior Product Manager, Flock
Aviation
$160-190k
More information about location
Public safety operating system
Posted today
Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Posted today
$160-190k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Proven product management experience in complex, technical environments where hardware, software, and operational systems intersect
- Strong ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-moving spaces and convert incomplete information into clear strategy
- Demonstrated success partnering deeply with engineering teams on technical tradeoffs, execution, and roadmap planning
- Ability to learn and navigate domain-specific regulatory constraints and use them effectively in shaping product direction
- Strong customer instinct and market judgment, with the ability to connect user needs to product strategy and execution
- Comfort working across a wide range of stakeholders, including engineering, design, operations, legal, compliance, GTM, and leadership
- Interest in or experience with aviation, autonomous systems, robotics, drones, or similarly regulated product spaces is preferred but not required
- Feeling uneasy that you haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay — research shows candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often hesitate to apply unless they meet every qualification. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Product Manager, Aviation to help define and grow Flock’s aviation product portfolio
- This role sits at the intersection of hardware, embedded software, cloud software, operations, and a rapidly evolving regulatory environment
- You will work closely with Engineering, Design, Operations, Legal, GTM, and leadership to turn customer needs, technical constraints, and market opportunities into a clear roadmap and durable product execution
- This role is responsible for helping Flock harden and scale an American-made autonomous drone platform at a moment of substantial market and regulatory change
- You will develop deep customer and market understanding, drive technical product work with engineering, and own roadmap decisions that balance customer value, regulatory realities, product quality, and speed
- In addition to internal product leadership, this role requires strong cross-functional partnership and the ability to lead product conversations across a broad set of stakeholders. Success in this role means building trust with engineers, understanding aviation-specific constraints, and translating complexity into clear priorities and execution
- Build deep understanding of aviation customers, workflows, and user personas, including pilots, dispatchers, patrol teams, and other operators within the DFR ecosystem
- Translate regulatory, market, and competitive dynamics into product strategy and roadmap priorities, including developments across FAA, FCC, and more
- Partner closely with Engineering to run technical projects end-to-end and make informed tradeoff decisions across hardware, embedded software, connectivity, and cloud systems
- Own roadmap sequencing and prioritization for aviation product investments across near-term execution and longer-term product vision
- Work cross-functionally with Design, Operations, Customer Success, Training, Legal, Compliance, and GTM to ensure the product evolves in ways that support customer outcomes and operational realities
- Develop sufficient technical fluency in core architecture and subsystems to guide product decisions with credibility and clarity
- Lead prioritization, scoping, and intake conversations within the engineering team and across adjacent product and engineering groups
- Represent customer needs and product direction clearly across internal stakeholders, while aligning aviation priorities with broader company strategy
- 90 Days at Flock:
- We believe great days lead to great weeks, great months, and ultimately meaningful progress. Here’s a preview of the impact you’ll start making in your first 90 days
- First 30 Days:
- Build a deep understanding of Flock’s aviation product, including the operator experience, core workflows, hardware evolution, and underlying data flows
- Develop working relationships with engineering, design, operations, legal, and customer-facing teams, and begin building a strong mental map of the broader aviation organization
- Ramp on aviation-specific terminology, legal context, and competitive dynamics so you can actively follow and contribute to day-to-day product conversations
- 60 Days:
- Begin running technical projects within your team and participate actively in sprint planning, prioritization, scoping, and tradeoff discussions
- Deepen understanding of adjacent business functions, including sales, training, customer success, operations, and compliance, to connect product work to full customer outcomes
- Build enough technical and organizational context to contribute meaningfully across the core conversations and decisions shaping the roadmap
- 90 Days:
- Take ownership of roadmap direction for your area, with clear priorities tied to customer needs, regulatory realities, and the longer-term aviation product vision
- Lead cross-functional initiatives that extend beyond a single engineering team and require coordination across software, device, operations, connectivity, customer teams, and other PMs
- Demonstrate the ability to independently lead product conversations, drive alignment, and shape the next phase of product development for Flock Aviation
Our take
Public vehicle surveillance provides valuable insights to emergency services for the prevention of crime, but bringing information together to create leads is difficult. There's no standardised system for inter-city vehicle surveillance, and this makes it difficult for communities and law enforcement services to work together.
Flock provides surveillance equipment that aims to improve the abilities of law enforcement and homeowner associations to communicate data with each other. The company focuses on vehicle surveillance, innovating on existing technology by using machine learning to categorise vehicles by color, license plate, state, and other data points.
Whilst automated surveillance equipment is used daily within federal police forces, Flock builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. The company has raised strong funding to support the expansion of its manufacturing capabilities. But it has also faced a large dose of backlash from groups and individuals who are concerned about its capability for mass surveillance and the privacy of the data it collects.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2025
$275m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$200m
SERIES G
Total funding: $857.8m
Company benefits
- 🌴Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
- ⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match
- 👪Family Leave: We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers
- 🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility
- 🧠Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace
- 💖Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
- 💸Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions
- 💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home
- 📚L&D Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more
- 🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office
- 🏢Coworking Space: If you’re not local to our ATL HQ, we’ll provide $250 a month to get you set up with an All Access Membership to WeWork (or a local coworking space in your area)
- 🐾Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies
Company HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
Leadership
Garrett Langley
(Founder & CEO)They worked in Computer Services freelance for over 6 years before joining Firethorn in 2015, and Clutch Technologies in 2014. They left their position as President of Moment LLC to found Flock Safety in April 2017.
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