Head of Strategy

About the role

Oklo is seeking a Head of Strategy to serve as the senior leader of the company’s corporate strategy function. Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, you will shape Oklo’s enterprise strategy, lead the Strategy team, and help the company make and execute its most consequential decisions. The function is designed to be proactive and high leverage: identifying emerging opportunities and risks, developing independent points of view, and deploying a focused team against the company’s highest-priority questions and initiatives. You will set the function’s agenda and standards, determine where Strategy resources can have the greatest impact, and lead work from early thesis development through executive decision, execution, and handoff. You will work directly with the founders, CFO, and business-unit leaders, bringing forward original recommendations, constructively challenging assumptions, and leading the Strategy function’s contribution to executive and Board decisions. You will be accountable for the quality of company-level strategy, the effectiveness of the Strategy function, and the impact of the initiatives it leads.

About Oklo Inc.: Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale; establishing a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes; and advancing nuclear fuel recycling to convert nuclear waste into clean energy. Oklo was the first to receive a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy for a commercial advanced fission plant, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, and submitted the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Oklo is also developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the corporate strategy function. Design the function's operating model; hire, develop, and manage talent; allocate resources; and own the standards, quality, and results of the team.
• Own enterprise strategy. Lead the development and refinement of Oklo's long-range strategy, including portfolio choices, priority markets, business models, growth platforms, and the allocation of leadership attention and company resources.
• Set a proactive strategic agenda. Identify important opportunities, risks, and unanswered questions before they are formally assigned. Sponsor the right analysis and recommend what the company should pursue, defer, reshape, or decline.
• Lead strategic planning and performance reviews. Own the Strategy team's delivery of annual and multi-year planning, objectives and key results, scorecards, and initiative reviews.
• Shape major corporate choices. Support the strategic evaluation of partnerships, creative capital initiatives, acquisitions, new ventures, international opportunities, and structural options in collaboration with the relevant business units and functional owners.
• Own the strategic-initiative portfolio. Establish objectives, accountable leaders, milestones, decision points, and review mechanisms. Recommend when to advance, resource, redirect, stop, or hand off work.
• Advise executive leadership and the Board. Bring independent, evidence-based recommendations; challenge assumptions constructively; frame alternatives and tradeoffs; and lead consequential strategic discussions.