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Product Manager - Reactors

Oklo· Product
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA), Remote$140k - $200kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Product Manager role focused on nuclear reactor products within Oklo's New Product Introduction team. Responsible for identifying, defining, developing, and deploying new reactor-related products by translating ideas into deployable solutions across engineering, commercial, operations, licensing, manufacturing, and supply chain.

Responsibilities

  • Identifying and evaluating opportunities for products, capabilities, and applications of Oklo nuclear reactor technology.
  • Developing clear product visions, value propositions, business cases, and deployment strategies.
  • Working with customers, partners, commercial teams, and internal stakeholders to understand needs and translate them into actionable product requirements.
  • Partnering closely with engineering teams to define product functionality, technical requirements, interfaces, performance objectives, and acceptance criteria.
  • Building and maintaining product roadmaps that connect technical development with commercial opportunities and deployment objectives.
  • Guiding reactor technology products from early concept and feasibility assessment through design, development, validation, and deployment.
  • Establishing appropriate product development plans, decision points, maturity criteria, and measures of success.
  • Leading cross-functional trade studies and decisions involving technical performance, safety, cost, schedule, licensing, manufacturability, operability, and commercial value.
  • Ensuring development work is appropriately sized and focused on resolving the most important product risks and uncertainties.
  • Coordinating across engineering, licensing, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, operations, finance, and commercial teams to maintain alignment and execution.
  • Identifying reactor technology product risks, dependencies, and critical decisions and ensuring they are clearly owned and resolved.
  • Communicating reactor technology product priorities, technical considerations, decisions, and progress to company leadership and other stakeholders.
  • Supporting design reviews, customer engagements, partner discussions, procurement activities, and deployment planning.
  • Developing a strong understanding of the technical and regulatory environment affecting the product and incorporating relevant constraints into reactor product strategy.
  • Gathering feedback from testing, deployment, operations, customers, and partners to guide continued product improvement.
  • Establishing clear reactor technology product ownership and maintaining accountability for overall product outcomes throughout the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in product management, engineering, systems engineering, technical program management, or a similar role developing complex technical products.
  • Specific experience with nuclear reactor technology in areas such as design, safety, licensing, construction, or operations.
  • An engineering degree or equivalent experience working directly with engineered systems and technical development teams.
  • Demonstrated experience translating customer, business, or operational needs into product requirements and development priorities.
  • Experience guiding technical work from early-stage concepts toward validated, deployable solutions.
  • Ability to understand complex technical information and make informed tradeoffs involving performance, cost, schedule, risk, and customer value.
  • Experience coordinating work and decisions across multiple technical and non-technical functions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Proven ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Skills

Required:Product management of complex technical productsSystems thinking and engineering collaborationCommunication

Benefits

  • flexible time off
  • equity
  • bonuses
  • competitive pay
  • 401(k)
  • health insurance (with employer contribution)
  • HSA
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours
  • wellness credits
  • other benefits
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Emission free, always on power from advanced fission power plants.

About Oklo Inc.: Oklo Inc. (Oklo) is developing advanced fission power plants to provide emission-free, reliable, and affordable energy. Oklo received a Site Use Permit from the U.S Department of Energy, has performed successful prototypic fuel fabrication, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, developed the first advanced fission combined license application accepted and docketed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and is developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and national laboratories. Oklo has been featured in Time, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Popular Mechanics, Wired, Architectural Digest, Hyperallergic, POWER Magazine, has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case, and is featured in the Oliver Stone documentary Nuclear, among other features.

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