Media Relations Manager (East Coast)

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 are looking to hire a dynamic Media Relations Manager to join Flock Safety’s Communications team. In this role, you'll be an important part of a dynamic team, soliciting stories from customers, drafting press releases, pitching stories to news outlets, supporting press conferences, and building and maintaining relationships with reporters and Flock Safety’s public sector customers.

This is a fast-paced, high-energy role that requires a creative, problem-solving mindset and the ability to handle a complex PR process. The PR Manager should display exceptional communication skills, an eye for detail, and the ability to balance many moving parts. You should love speaking with customers and reporters, extolling the virtues of Flock Safety, and working in a constantly-changing environment. Success in this role requires securing a high volume of positive press coverages each week through tenacity and persistence, and responding quickly and with efficiency to daily media questions.

The ideal candidate has 6-8 years of PR and communications experience either with an agency or in-house, preferably for a technology company. Direct experience dealing with reporters is required. Public speaking skills are preferable, as is experience dealing with public sector employees (law enforcement, elected officials, or city/county employees).

This candidate must be based on the East Coast, with a preference for candidates located in the Boston or New York City metropolitan areas. This role will be remote with up to 75% of travel.

The Skillset

• Ability to engage with, develop and maintain relationships with external stakeholders. You are comfortable cold calling a customer or reporter to pitch a story and you are not deterred by rejection.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, familiarity in press release and media pitch writing styles, and a solid understanding of the media landscape.

• Strong organization and time management skills. You are able to balance a pipeline of multiple projects in various stages of development each week.

• Self-starter mentality with the ability to work independently and quickly in a fast-moving environment. You meet deadlines, respond to requests quickly, and don’t require reminders to accomplish assigned tasks.

• 6-8 years of public relations experience, either at an agency or in-house.

• Prior relationships with reporters a plus, prior relationships with public sector employees (especially law enforcement) a plus

• Bachelor’s degree in public relations, journalism, marketing, sales, or a relevant field a plus

90 Days at Flock

We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe 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

Gain familiarity with Flock’s PR process, meet with customers who have done press in support of Flock, onboard onto our PR and media monitoring software, and shadow multiple interviews with Corporate Comms team members and Chief Communications Officer. End this month with full literacy in Flock’s suite of products and media talk tracks for tough questions.

The First 60 Days

With increasing understanding of the business and the PR process, you will continue to become more autonomous at story sourcing, pitching, media relations and follow-up. You should be honing your pitches to determine what gets the highest rates of engagement/coverages and beginning to source press conferences and announcements. You should be able to handle basic media inquiries on your own.

90 Days & Beyond

At this point, you should be fully off and running. You should feel both comfortable operating at Flock and within the External Affairs and Communications teams, and you are confidently representing Flock as a spokesperson.

Why join the Flock?

When you join the Flock, you are joining a diverse team of passionate, ambitious, intelligent people that put team over self. We offer competitive salary (commensurate with experience), equity in the company, take what you need vacation policy, and the opportunity to grow your career at a fast-paced, high growth mission-driven startup. We genuinely care about the well-being of our employees both in and out of the office and understand the importance of work/life balance. We’d love for you to join us in the fight to eliminate crime, one community at a time.

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.

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