Full-Time
Senior Product Manager
Video
Posted on 7/31/2026
Flock Safety
1,001-5,000 employees
License plate reader network with privacy.
Compensation Overview
$165k - $195k/yr
Remote in USA
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- Demonstrated product management experience building Software as a Service platforms, cloud infrastructure, or distributed systems.
- Ability to lead technical product initiatives spanning customer-facing web applications and complex backend systems.
- Fluency with cloud architecture, application programming interfaces, and scalable infrastructure to partner effectively with engineering on technical tradeoffs.
- Customer-focused discovery habits with a track record of translating qualitative feedback and telemetry into clear product priorities.
- Drive the product roadmap for end-to-end cloud video workflows, including onboarding, live viewing, playback, video management, and search.
- Lead strategy for Flock's cloud video platform and third-party integrations, balancing customer feature requests with infrastructure reliability and scalability.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Go-to-Market, and Customer Success to deliver video products from initial scoping to launch.
- Conduct customer discovery to translate user insights, operational feedback, and market opportunities into prioritized product requirements.
- Establish product benchmarks and platform metrics to evaluate video system performance and user engagement.
- Own product vision, discovery, roadmap prioritization, and tradeoffs for the cloud video product area.
- Experience with video streaming technologies, third-party platform integrations, or enterprise software ecosystems.
Flock Safety provides a network of license plate reader cameras and a supporting operating system to prevent crime while protecting privacy. In practice, customers such as neighborhoods, businesses, and law enforcement agencies install the cameras which collect vehicle data, and the accompanying software analyzes this data using machine learning to identify leads and resolve incidents. The system emphasizes objective evidence and aims to minimize bias and privacy intrusion by design, differentiating it from competitors that may rely on more invasive or opaque surveillance methods. Revenue comes from subscription fees for installation, maintenance, and ongoing access to data, analytics, and updates. The company's goal is to offer a scalable, ethical public-safety solution that helps prevent crime and build trust between civilians and law enforcement across many cities.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$857.8M
Headquarters
Atlanta, Georgia
Founded
2017
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Recurring subscriptions create sticky revenue from hardware, software, and storage.
- Ohio State renewed a 63-camera contract, signaling land-and-expand demand.
- Cross-jurisdiction searches increase investigative value for law enforcement buyers.
What critics are saying
- Privacy backlash can trigger contract cancellations and slower municipal approvals.
- Broad data sharing invites misuse allegations and regulatory restrictions on retention.
- ROI proof remains weak when customers cannot verify crime-reduction claims.
What makes Flock Safety unique
- Flock sells solar-powered, infrastructure-free ALPR cameras with cloud software.
- Its Vehicle Signature searches use plate, color, make, model, and damage.
- The company positions itself as a public-safety operating system across cities and agencies.
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Benefits
Unlimited PTO
12 paid holidays
Fully-paid health benefits
16 weeks of parental leave
Work from home allowance
Learning & development stipend
Home office stipend
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↑ 1%Ohio State just renewed its Flock camera contract. Here's what it will cost and why. Ohio State University plans to use license plate reader cameras on its Columbus campus for the next two years, according to the university's latest contract extension with Flock Safety, the maker of the AI-powered devices. Public records requested by Signal Statewide show the university's latest contract officially began July 1 and will cost $378,000 in total. The latest extension is the university's third agreement with Flock Safety - and its most expensive. Records show the university will pay $31,500 more each year, or a 20% annual increase from the previous deal. Ohio State officials said the uptick "appears" to reflect higher per-camera charges from the company, not an increase to its current network of 63 cameras on and around campus. The deal comes as leaders in Columbus, Cleveland and other cities debate using the cameras. Officials face criticism from privacy advocates, whose concerns include that the data collected can be used in federal deportation efforts. Ohio State says license plate cameras make campus safer. Ohio State's first contract with Flock Safety ran from June 2022 through June 2024. But the cameras initially arrived on campus as part of a free pilot program. Flock Safety installed the 63 devices on or around Ohio State's campus to "demonstrate the effectiveness of the service product at no cost to the university," according to a 2024 memo written by Satoru Persons, then the university's director of communications and security technology in the public safety department. Persons framed the pilot as a success in the memo, where he also asked senior leaders to renew the university's deal with Flock Safety for the first time. "The pilot period resulted in several arrests and recovered property directly associated with notifications from Flock on stolen plates, stolen vehicles, active warrants, and missing persons," he wrote. The memo didn't cite specific examples to support that claim. University officials declined to provide any additional context when asked by Signal Statewide. "The system has been used to solve crimes and assist law enforcement," an Ohio State spokesperson wrote in a July 16 email. "We do not have a formal data tracking of that." Records show Ohio State's three agreements with Flock Safety total more than $1 million through 2028. Other colleges in Ohio, nationwide also partner with Flock Safety. Ohio State isn't the only university using Flock Safety cameras. As Signal Statewide reported last week, Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University and other colleges nationwide also work with the company. Ohio State's contract is comparable to the deal the University of Arizona has with the company. Arizona signed a five-year deal with Flock Safety in February 2025, according to reporting from the Tucson Spotlight. The details mirror Ohio State's first two contracts with Flock Safety, including with the number of cameras - Arizona's 62 to Ohio State's 63 - and six-figure annual payments. More than 61,000 students attended the Columbus campus last fall, compared to about 40,000 in Tucson. Both are the flagship institutions in their states. How do Flock Safety's cameras work? Flock Safety cameras snap photos of passing vehicles, including license plates and details such as the make and model of a car, before storing them in its online database. The company says the entities overseeing the cameras control who can access those images. They may choose to share them with participating law enforcement agencies through Flock Safety's data-sharing network. Campus leaders say the cameras are one of many ways they work to keep students safe. "The safety of our campus community is our number one priority," Ohio State officials told Signal Statewide. But critics are concerned about how - and why - the data is being captured and stored. They say the technology puts immigrant communities at risk if information captured by the cameras gets turned over to federal immigration agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (or ICE). The devices have been a point of contention across the country and in Ohio. Cleveland City Council recently passed a six-month extension of its own contract after months of intense debates, while Columbus leaders plan to discuss their city's use of the cameras at a public hearing next month. Higher education reporter for Signal Cleveland in partnership with Open Campus. More by Amy Morona
LAPD ends neighborhood camera surveillance contract with Flock over privacy backlash. Public opposition forces a freeze on neighborhood camera feeds while city officials demand tighter privacy rules. The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its access to a controversial network of neighborhood surveillance cameras this weekend after a wave of public pushback over privacy rights, as reported by ABC Eyewitness News. The department's data-sharing agreement with Flock Safety expires Saturday. Under the deal, the LAPD did not own the roadway cameras. Instead, private groups, developers, and homeowners' associations bought the hardware and gave police access to the license plate data and vehicle photos collected on public streets. While some neighborhood groups initially welcomed the technology to deter crime, local residents and privacy advocates heavily criticized the lack of oversight and long data-retention windows. LAPD officials admitted that these community privacy concerns directly drove the decision to let the contract expire. LAPD's chief information officer, Dean Gialamas, told ABC Eyewitness News,"This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues, particularly around privacy and the data that is being collected from these cameras. The LAPD had to make a difficult decision, in this case discontinuing using Flock services until we can get those data, privacy, security and sharing concerns ironed out through a contractual relationship." The ACLU has expressed concerns about Flock Safety giving access to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and Homeland Security (DHS) while not being upfront about the data sharing. In Pasadena, Texas a police sargeant resigned while he was under an internal investigation for for allegedly using data from Flock Safety automatic license plate readers to monitor a a female officer's whereabouts. Because private entities own the physical cameras, it is unclear if the devices will keep recording after Saturday, but the data will no longer stream to police databases. The LAPD is still talking with Flock Safety about a potential new contract, but police leaders say they will not sign anything unless the company agrees to strict new rules regarding data storage limits and explicit privacy protections.
County supervisors extend Flock contract for 18 months. Tuesday's 3-2 vote will extend the contract until December 2027 at a cost of $2.4 million. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved an 18-month contract extension with surveillance infrastructure company Flock Safety for the use of law enforcement technology, including automated license plate reader cameras, in the county's unincorporated communities. Police departments use ALPR cameras to investigate crimes like stolen vehicles. However, privacy watchdogs have raised concerns about federal agencies being able to access the camera data - a potential violation of state law - and using it for targeted surveillance of immigrants and other vulnerable groups. The contract also extends the use of pan-tilt-zoom cameras that do not record license plates but are used for police investigations, drones that can be deployed as first responders to gather information, and investigative software, all of which are sold by Flock Safety. The Alameda County Sheriff's Office brought forth the proposal, calling it a "bridge" contract to ensure that officers have access to essential surveillance technology while the county develops a new request for proposals to find an alternative service provider. Earlier in April, the supervisors had temporarily extended the contract, which expired last summer, until Tuesday. Now, Tuesday's 3-2 vote will extend the contract until December 2027 at a cost of $2.4 million. This new contract will also unify the three Flock Safety technologies - ALPR cameras, PTZ cameras, and drones - into one contract after they were previously governed by three different contracts. In his presentation, sheriff's Sgt. Fenton Culley said that this contract would merely extend the services and technology that the department already uses and are vital components of the "Real Time Information Center," which helps officers spot and respond to crime using various cameras and drones. Culley emphasized that the contract prohibits Flock Safety from sharing any of the county's data with federal or out-of-state agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security, or Customs and Border Protection. He also pointed out that since many other law enforcement agencies in the Bay Area also use Flock Safety surveillance tools, the unincorporated communities would become a haven for criminals if these technologies were discontinued. Police departments in Oakland, Richmond, and Berkeley have extended their contracts with Flock Safety since December 2025. Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez asked the supervisors to approve the extension to ensure that her department can function to the best of its ability, adding that her department had conducted extensive community outreach to accommodate public input into the new contract. "I'm working as a good partner, where does that partnership come in from the other side?" asked Sanchez. During an hour-long public comment period, community members spoke both in support of and in opposition to the contract. Proponents said that at a time when police departments are facing staffing crises, tools like ALPR cameras are essential to maintain public safety; in his presentation, Culley cited specific homicide, child sexual assault, and robbery cases in the last three months that officers could crack because of Flock Safety tools. On the other hand, opponents raised concerns about Flock Safety's history of working with federal immigration agencies in the past and its vulnerabilities in keeping ALPR data secure. During deliberations, Supervisors Nikki Fortunato Bas and Elisa Marquez asked for more time to consider the contract and make the data privacy clauses more secure. "I had only two business days to review it [the contract], as did the rest of the public," said Fortunato Bas. "We have to do our due diligence." But Supervisors David Haubert and Nate Miley said that the public safety benefits of having Flock Safety tools in the unincorporated communities of the county outweigh the potential dangers. "These cameras are meant to keep us safe," said Haubert. "I don't believe that they're widely used by ICE." Finally, during the vote, Supervisor Lena Tam sided with Miley and Haubert, while Fortunato Bas and Marquez voted against the contract, resulting in a 3-2 split vote for the extension. In a news release issued Wednesday, Flock Safety's senior director of public affairs Trevor Chandler said that in the county's unincorporated areas, Flock ALPR cameras helped make 60 arrests, recover 53 stolen vehicles, and apprehend a murder suspect within 24 hours in 2025. "We heard the concerns raised by residents throughout this process and will continue working with the county to strengthen the safeguards, audit controls, and oversight that keep this system accountable to the people it serves," Chandler said. - Story by Tanay Gokhale, Bay City News
Flock cameras out in fort Collins. Fort Collins City Council has voted to immediately cancel its contract with Flock Safety, ending the city's participation in the company's automated license plate reader system. The 6-1 vote during a June 16 council meeting follows six months of public pushback on the use of the system. The Coloradoan reports council passed several directives impacting the operation, including immediate cessation of Flock data collection, expeditious removal of all cameras and a halt on seeking new bids for similar technology until a comprehensive citywide surveillance policy is established.
Amazon sued over Ring facial recognition technology. admin June 2, 2026 SouthernWorldwide.com - A lawsuit has been filed against Amazon, alleging privacy violations due to the facial recognition capabilities of its Ring video doorbell software. The plaintiff, Charles Sigwalt, a resident of Virginia, claims that Ring's "Familiar Faces" feature, which utilizes facial recognition technology, captures and stores images of individuals without their explicit consent. Sigwalt filed the lawsuit in a Seattle federal court, asserting that the "Familiar Faces" feature scans anyone passing by the Ring camera. It then employs artificial intelligence to categorize these individuals. According to the complaint, the system creates a "face print" that enables re-identification of the person. The lawsuit is seeking class-action status. "When plaintiffs and class members entered the homes and businesses of places which had Ring cameras that deployed Familiar Faces, they did not consent to have their privacy rights violated at the entrance way," the suit states. Sigwalt contends that Ring collected his facial recognition data without any prior warning, specifically while he was visiting friends and family members. He believes that Amazon continues to retain his biometric data. Amazon has not provided any comment regarding the lawsuit. The "Familiar Faces" feature was introduced by Ring in September 2025. It was marketed as a tool to provide Ring doorbell camera owners with more personalized alerts, such as identifying specific individuals like "John at Front Door" instead of a generic "Person at Front Door" notification. Ring's website states that the camera learns to recognize frequent visitors, including friends and family, over time. Users have the option to enable or disable this feature, according to Ring. Organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation have voiced strong opposition to the "Familiar Faces" feature, arguing that it infringes upon personal privacy. The group has warned that the collected biometric data could be exploited for mass surveillance or be compromised in the event of a data breach. Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts has also been a vocal critic of the "Familiar Faces" technology. He has highlighted concerns that the feature could be used to record biometric data of individuals who have not consented to have their faces scanned. Amazon has faced previous legal challenges concerning its Ring product. In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission initiated a lawsuit alleging that Amazon provided employees and contractors with access to customer videos recorded by Ring. The FTC also claimed that the company failed to adequately secure customer data, which led to instances of hackers threatening or making sexual propositions to Ring owners. Amazon reached a settlement in that case, agreeing to pay $5.8 million. More recently, Amazon terminated a partnership with the security technology company Flock Safety. This decision followed public backlash over a Ring commercial aired during the Super Bowl, which raised concerns about potential unwanted surveillance. Amazon acquired Ring, the video doorbell company, in 2018 for $1 billion. Post Views: 19