Who is Flock?

Flock Safety is the leading safety technology platform, helping communities thrive by taking a proactive approach to crime prevention and security. Our hardware and software suite connects cities, law enforcement, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods in a nationwide public-private safety network. Trusted by over 5,000 communities, 4,500 law enforcement agencies, and 1,000 businesses, Flock delivers real-time intelligence while prioritizing privacy and responsible innovation.

We’re a high-performance, low-ego team driven by urgency, collaboration, and bold thinking. Working at Flock means tackling big challenges, moving fast, and continuously improving. It’s intense but deeply rewarding for those who want to make an impact.

With nearly $700M in venture funding and a $7.5B valuation, we’re scaling intentionally and seeking top talent to help build the impossible. If you value teamwork, ownership, and solving tough problems, Flock could be the place for you.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Vice President of Total Rewards to design and scale a compensation, benefits, and recognition strategy that supports our next phase of growth. You’ll be responsible for building world-class programs that attract, motivate, and retain exceptional talent—anchored in performance, fairness, and our company values.

As a strategic leader within the People organization, you’ll partner closely with our CPO, CEO, CFO, and executive team to shape our approach to compensation philosophy, equity, benefits, mobility, and executive rewards. You’ll lead a small but mighty team while driving systems, insights, and programs that elevate the employee experience and sustain our talent density at scale.

This role reports to the Chief People Officer.

What You Bring

• 12+ years of progressive experience in compensation, benefits, or total rewards, including leadership experience at a high-growth or global company.

• Deep expertise in both broad-based and executive compensation, including equity programs.

• Experience advising senior executives with sound judgment and data-driven insights.

• Strong understanding of global mobility, pay equity, and compliance considerations.

• Exceptional analytical, communication, and influencing skills; able to translate data into strategy.

• A builder’s mindset, comfortable designing for scale, leading change, and simplifying complexity.

The Skillset

• Define and evolve our global total rewards philosophy, ensuring alignment with company goals, culture, and financial strategy

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the executive team and Compensation Committee on pay equity, competitiveness, and governance.

• Lead the design and communication of our annual compensation cycles, including merit, bonus, and equity refresh processes.

• Oversee market benchmarking, leveling, and pay structures across all functions and geographies.

• Partner with Finance and People to drive data-informed compensation decisions and workforce planning.

• Manage executive compensation, long-term incentive plans, and equity frameworks that reward performance and impact.

• Design and optimize benefits offerings that scale globally and enhance employee wellbeing, engagement, and retention.

• Ensure compliance with all applicable regulations across geographies.

• Introduce innovative, scalable benefits aligned with our growth stage and employee demographics.

• Drive automation, systems integration, and process excellence across compensation and benefits programs.

• Partner with People Business Partners and Talent Acquisition to ensure rewards programs enable attraction and retention of top talent.

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

• Conduct a full audit of current compensation, benefits, equity, and recognition programs, identifying alignment and gaps with Flock’s values and talent strategy.

• Benchmark Total Rewards practices against 5–7 peer companies in similar growth stage and mission focus.

• Gather qualitative feedback from 10+ leaders and high performers on what makes Flock’s culture unique - and how rewards can better reflect that.

• Deliver a “Total Rewards Philosophy” draft articulating principles around pay, performance, equity, and culture alignment

The First 60 Days

• Finalize 2026 merit, bonus, and equity cycle processes in collaboration with Finance and HRBPs.

• Train managers on updated compensation philosophy and process, ensuring 100% completion before cycle kickoff.

• Deliver summary report to Paige on projected spend vs. budget with recommendations for adjustments or contingencies.

The First 90 Days

• Develop a quarterly Total Rewards dashboard tracking retention, offer acceptance, and internal mobility metrics.

• Partner with Recruiting to analyze offer competitiveness and close rate across top roles; implement at least two data-backed adjustments to improve acceptance rate.

• Refresh internal communications and branding around Total Rewards to ensure clarity and engagement.

Salary & Equity

In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary between $290,000 and $325,000 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.

Location

We’re building the impossible, together. To drive innovation through in-person collaboration, we’re prioritizing candidates in our key hubs: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Austin. While we value the energy of our hub communities, we embrace remote work and welcome applications from exceptional talent across the United States.

The Perks

🌴Flexible PTO: We offer non-accrual PTO, 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, a1nd 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 four ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, LEOs 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: $300 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo 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.