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

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Protective Intelligence Analyst to join our security team. This role is responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential threats to executives, employees, operations, and assets through comprehensive intelligence gathering and analysis. The ideal candidate will have experience in threat intelligence, OSINT, risk analysis, and protective operations support.

What You Will Be Doing

• Develop and implement protective intelligence strategies

• Analyze threat assessments and risk analysis for executive travel, both domestic and international.

• Ensure security protocols align with current threat intelligence and geopolitical risks impacting executive travel.

• Public Event Security & Risk Mitigation

• Assist with security planning and risk assessment for corporate events, industry conferences, and public engagements.

• Ensure real-time incident reporting, investigation, and resolution, leveraging vendor resources.

• Conduct post-incident analysis and implement corrective actions to enhance future security measures.

• Maintain strong relationships with law enforcement, intelligence entities, and global security partners to enhance security and intelligence posture.

The Skillset

• You'll need at least five years of professional experience, ideally in a mission-critical environment, with a background in intelligence, insider threat, executive protection, or related security disciplines.

• Demonstrable fluency in OSINT principles is essential, including data sourcing, online sentiment monitoring, ethical considerations, and operational security. This also includes a proven ability to gather, analyze, and synthesize information from diverse sources (including the dark web) to produce actionable intelligence.

• You should have extensive experience collecting, synthesizing, and streamlining large, complex datasets into clear, concise, and impactful intelligence deliverables. This includes understanding the intelligence cycle, and proficiency in creating and distributing regular intelligence reports and communicating findings through written reports and verbal briefings for various audiences, including senior leadership.

• A thorough grasp of adversary tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) is crucial, along with a keen understanding of how these threats impact the corporate environment and the local through global threat landscape's evolving impact on personnel, assets, and business operations.

• Experience in conducting comprehensive security risk assessments, particularly for travel and events, including identifying vulnerabilities and recommending mitigation strategies.

• The ability to contribute to and support incident response efforts and expertise in proactive threat detection through regular monitoring of social media, forums, and other platforms for threats or mentions related to personnel, assets, or executives.

• Proficiency in leveraging current technologies, cloud environments, and relevant analytic tools and methods for effective intelligence analysis and reporting.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to establish and maintain regular contact with internal and external teams, clearly summarizing complex threats and risks.

• Proactively identify and assess emerging threats and contribute to the development of new protective intelligence strategies.

Feeling uneasy that you haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay; we’ve felt that way too. Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day.

90 Days at Flock

We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe to 90 day plans and believe that good days, lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired in this role at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• Complete HR onboarding and necessary administrative tasks.

• Gain a deep understanding of the company's mission, values, key executives, critical assets, and existing security culture.

• One-on-one meetings and establish rapport with the immediate security team, relevant internal departments (e.g., Legal, HR, IT, Travel, Events), and key stakeholders.

• Familiarize with current protective intelligence strategies, tools, and reporting mechanisms.

• Begin to grasp the historical and current threat landscape relevant to the business, executives, and products.

• Review existing protective intelligence policies, procedures, and standard operating protocols (SOPs).

• Gain access to all relevant intelligence platforms, internal communication channels, and secure data repositories.

• Review past public event security plans and After Action Reports (AARs).

• Begin familiarizing with geopolitical risks impacting key executive travel destinations.

• Assist in drafting initial threat assessments for upcoming, low-complexity executive travel.

• Contribute to the review of a public event security plan, focusing on identifying potential gaps or areas for improvement.

• Begin researching and identifying key contacts within relevant local law enforcement, intelligence entities, and security partners that the business currently engages with.

• Start to understand the current vendor resources utilized for incident investigation and resolution.

• Develop a basic understanding of the company's products and their vulnerability to third-party sales.

The First 60 Days

• Conduct more complex threat assessments and risk analyses.

• Actively contribute to public event security planning and execution.

• Begin initial monitoring and investigation into dark web and third-party product sales.

• Initiate contact and begin fostering relationships with external security partners.

• Identify initial areas for potential improvement within existing security protocols.

• Independently conduct threat assessments and risk analyses for moderate-complexity executive domestic and international travel, with oversight.

• Actively participate in security planning meetings for upcoming corporate events or industry conferences.

• Begin to develop a proactive monitoring strategy for potential threats related to public events.

• Start actively monitoring relevant dark web forums and marketplaces for mentions of the business or its products.

• Support real-time incident reporting and initial investigations, coordinating with internal teams and vendor resources as needed.

• Conduct initial post-incident analysis on minor security incidents, identifying potential root causes.

90 Days & Beyond

• Proactively identify and assess emerging threats and contribute to the development of new protective intelligence strategies.

• Manage incidents from reporting through resolution and post-incident analysis.

• Lead investigations into dark web and third-party product sales, developing actionable intelligence.

• Strengthen and expand the network of law enforcement and global security partners.

• Propose and implement improvements to existing security measures and intelligence protocols.

• Lead the development of protective intelligence strategies for specific high-risk scenarios or executive profiles.

The Interview Process

We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative. Throughout the interview process, your recruiter will guide you through the next steps and ensure you feel prepared every step of the way.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. The Technical Assessment: Our technical assessments seek to test the hard skills required to do the job. Engineers may find themselves in coding interviews or architecture discussions, sales roles may present mock discovery calls, and leadership roles may craft 90 day plans. Your recruiter will inform you of which assessment you will be assigned and ensure you are fully prepared for your big day.

4. 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.

5. The Executive Review: A chance to meet an executive and view Flock from a different lens. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more.

Salary & Equity

In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary between $130,000 and $150,000 as well as Flock Safety Stock Options. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. Your recruiter will discuss this in-depth with you during our first chat.

The Perks

🌴Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.

⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.

👪Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.

🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. Flock will provide a $50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.

🧠Spring Health: Spring Health offers a variety of mental health benefits, including therapy, coaching, medication management, and digital tools, all tailored to each individual's needs.

💖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.

💚ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer three ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.

💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.

📚Productivity 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.

Flock is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Flock operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

At Flock Safety, we compensate our employees fairly for their work. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. The range above is representative of base salary only and does not include equity, sales bonus plans (when applicable) and benefits. This range may be modified in the future. This job posting may span more than one career level.