Technical Project Manager, Flock Safety
Devices
$110-125k
+ Equity
Public safety operating system
Open for applications
Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$110-125k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Experience partnering with hardware engineers and embedded software developers to ensure the various functional teams have a detailed plan for the timely delivery of device deliverables
- Ability to develop plans that are properly aligned with key stakeholders, including product management, operations, and leadership to ensure dependencies are fleshed out and project goals are clear
- Capable of identifying gaps or risks and moving quickly to mitigate those issues. At Flock we take ownership and resolve problems, never assuming ‘someone else is going to take care of it’
- Ability to foster a great project environment with communication at its core - you will facilitate team meetings, keep the team on priority tasks, document assumptions and decisions, wrangle slack conversations, and anything else it takes to ensure consistent alignment and forward progress
- Have a technical background that provides the foundation for navigating our engineering environment with ease
- Have experience with project management software. Specific administrative experience with the Atlassian (Jira) portfolio is preferred
- Have proven experience as a member of a development team that has shipped consumer or IOT electronic devices
- Have familiarity with embedded software solutions, especially Android!
What the job involves
- Our Device Engineering organization requires technical project management to ensure our embedded software, hardware, and quality teams successfully deliver on business goals
- This portfolio of initiatives includes power products to enable infrastructure free deployments, accessories for current and emerging products, projects to enable special operations and manufacturing initiatives, and general process improvement efforts
- The First 30 Days:
- Ramp: meet with the various stakeholders and learn about the various device platforms
- Learn how to navigate Flock: tools, process, people
- Understand this quarter’s goals and your newly assigned project deliverables
- Take ownership of your projects!
- The First 60 Days:
- Execute project plans with regular meetings, close each week’s priority deliverables, communicate results
- Strengthen partnerships with external vendors and internal stakeholders, ensure your projects are still calibrated for current success and you are on track to hit targets
- Regularly escalate any perceived or real deliverable risk, with details and recommendations on how to mitigate
- Recommend improvements within device engineering; communication methods, tools, general process to help the team always make forward progress
- 90 Days & Beyond:
- Continue to successfully execute project plans with regular meetings, close each week’s priority deliverables, communicate results
- Work closely with product management and engineering partners to identify and capture business needs; translate to specific project initiatives to roll up into the broader device engineering planning process
- Evaluate your successes and areas for improvement with your manager; recalibrate and plan for changes needed to accomplish next quarters goals
Application process
- Our First Chat: During this first conversation, you’ll meet with a recruiter to chat through your background, what you could bring to Flock, what you are looking for in your next role, and who we are
- The Hiring Manager Interview: You will meet with your potential future boss to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field
- The Panel: Learn more about the team, responsibilities, and workflows. You should be prepared to speak about past projects, how you collaborate and communicate with others, and how you live our values. Depending on the team and role you are interviewing for, you may meet with several teammates as well as cross-functional partners
- The Executive Review: A chance to meet an executive in your function and view Flock from a different lens. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more
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. This data can then be automatically processed to help develop leads, a time-consuming process that would usually have to be completed manually.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2024
$200m
SERIES G
Feb 2022
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $582.7m
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 values
- Embrace change to grow - The only “status quo” at Flock Safety are the outdated systems we plan to disrupt. Our employees know the importance of scaling a business that can continue to serve our growing number of customers and communities. We make a plan, but pivot for the greater good.
- Do the work - We value bias towards action and share a strong commitment to solving problems quickly. No task is beneath any of us, and we always go above and beyond to make communities safer.
- Optimism with a plan - Our teams and leaders set lofty goals, but not without thorough planning and sustained accountability. Here at Flock, you contribute to a positive and supportive workplace while benefiting from a high-performance culture.
- Protect the whole community - Our job at Flock is to positively impact all citizens of a community. Our technology impacts millions of lives of people we will never meet, and that is a serious responsibility.
Company HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
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Leadership
Garrett Langley
(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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