Vice President of Communications, Flock Safety
$208-315k
+ Stock options
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Public safety operating system
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Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$208-315k
+ Stock options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- This is a highly visible role requiring exceptional judgment, speed, and composure under pressure—paired with the ability to think long-term about narrative, positioning, and credibility
- 12+ years of communications experience, including senior leadership roles
- Proven experience leading crisis communications in high-visibility, highly scrutinized environments (e.g., technology, public safety, government, or policy-adjacent industries)
- Demonstrated success reshaping public narratives over time—not just managing press
- On-air experience across TV, radio, and/or long-form podcasts, including executive coaching ahead of appearances
- Exceptional judgment, clarity of thought, and ability to operate under pressure
- Strong media relationships and executive presence
- Experience managing and scaling small, high-performing teams
- Experience supporting investor relations
What the job involves
- As Flock Safety’s visibility and impact continue to grow, we’re seeking a Vice President of Communications to shape a clear, credible, and compelling narrative around the public value Flock delivers across communities nationwide
- This leader will elevate how ethical, transparent technology deployment drives safety outcomes and builds trust at scale
- This is a rare opportunity to operate at the intersection of public safety, technology, media, and policy—partnering with journalists, third-party organizations, and public stakeholders during a defining moment for the industry
- The Vice President of Communications will own Flock Safety’s end-to-end communications strategy, with a dual mandate:
- Lead with authority in high-stakes moments, owning crisis, issues, and reputational management
- Proactively shape a values-led narrative that builds trust, influences perception, and positions Flock as a thoughtful, responsible leader in public safety technology
- Define and drive Flock Safety’s core narrative, ensuring consistency across press, owned channels, executive messaging, and customer communications
- Shift the organization from reactive to proactive by elevating stories of impact, responsibility, innovation, and trust
- Lead executive communications, including CEO positioning, speaking opportunities, op-eds, and interviews
- Build and maintain strong relationships with top-tier national, technology, and policy reporters
- Serve as Flock’s primary communications leader during rapid-response situations, including negative press, misinformation, and sensitive policy moments
- Continuously evaluate and strengthen crisis communications plans, messaging frameworks, and escalation protocols
- Partner closely with Legal, Policy, Product, and Executive Leadership to ensure accurate, aligned, and timely responses
- Act as a trusted advisor to executives on reputational risk and public response strategy
- Lead, develop, and scale a lean, high-impact communications team
- Establish clear priorities, workflows, and expectations to move quickly without sacrificing quality
- Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, External Affairs, Policy, Product, Customer Success, Sales, and People teams
- This 90-day plan outlines how a leader in this role would onboard, build context, and begin delivering impact. It is intentionally high-level and represents a preview of the approach, not a detailed execution plan
- The First 30 Days: Listen, Learn, and Build Context
- The first month is focused on immersion and trust-building, with an emphasis on understanding Flock’s mission, culture, customers, and operating environment
- Key themes include:
- Building strong relationships with executive leadership and cross-functional partners
- Gaining firsthand exposure to customers, communities, and the public safety ecosystem
- Developing an informed understanding of existing narratives, risks, and opportunities
- Learning how decisions are made, teams collaborate, and information flows across the organization
- By day 30, this role will have a clear baseline view of stakeholder expectations, external perception, and internal operating rhythms—grounded in real conversations, not assumptions
- The First 60 Days: Shape, Test, and Align
- With foundational context established, the second phase focuses on translating insights into structure and early execution
- Focus areas include:
- Developing a clear, values-led narrative framework aligned to Flock’s mission and responsibility
- Adapting messaging for different audiences while maintaining consistency and credibility
- Pressure-testing narratives through real-world feedback
- Strengthening internal readiness through alignment, coaching, and scenario planning
- This phase prioritizes iteration over perfection—testing, learning quickly, and aligning leadership around a confident, shared point of view
- 90 Days & Beyond: Activate and Operationalize
- The final phase shifts from building to scaling, with an emphasis on durable systems and measurable impact
- Key outcomes include:
- Activating messaging across priority channels and stakeholders
- Establishing clear measurement and feedback loops to assess narrative impact
- Creating a sustainable operating cadence for the function
- Aligning leadership on priorities, success metrics, and long-term direction
- By day 90, this role is operating with clarity, momentum, and trust—supported by a forward-looking roadmap aligned to Flock’s growth, reputation, and mission
Application process
- If an offer is extended and accepted, this role requires the ability to obtain and maintain Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) certification, including a fingerprint-based background check, in accordance with FBI CJIS Security Policy requirements
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 Safety 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 Safety builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. It's caught on too, with a funding round of $275 million awarded in 2025 that will be used to expand its manufacturing capabilities. lock Safety, a U.S. startup developing surveillance technology, has raised $275 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, as it invests in a manufacturing facility and expands into drone products, the company told Reuters. funding behind it, This data can then be automatically processed to help develop leads, a time-consuming process that would usually have to be completed manually.
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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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