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Vice President of Strategy

Oklo· General
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Hybrid (Remote; Washington, D.C. or Los Angeles preferred)$250k - $280kFull-timePosted 2d ago

About the role

Senior leader responsible for building and leading Oklo's corporate strategy function, shaping enterprise strategy, and guiding executive and Board decision-making. Reports to the Chief Strategy Officer and collaborates with founders, executives, and business-unit leaders to drive high-impact, cross-functional strategic initiatives.

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 resource allocation.
  • Set a proactive strategic agenda. Identify important opportunities, risks, and unanswered questions; sponsor analysis and recommend what the company should pursue, defer, reshape, or decline.
  • Lead strategic planning and performance reviews. Oversee annual and multi-year planning, objectives and key results, scorecards, and initiative reviews.
  • Shape major corporate choices. Support strategic evaluations of partnerships, capital initiatives, acquisitions, new ventures, and international opportunities.
  • Own the strategic-initiative portfolio. Establish objectives, accountable leaders, milestones, decision points, and review mechanisms.
  • Advise executive leadership and the Board. Provide independent, evidence-based recommendations and frame alternatives and tradeoffs.
  • Personally lead selected high-stakes initiatives. Take direct responsibility for a small number of key initiatives through decision, launch, or operational handoff.
  • Integrate strategy across the company. Partner with Finance, Corporate Development, Legal, Government Affairs, international teams, technical and regulatory leaders, and business units to ensure coherence through execution.
  • Build company-wide strategy capability. Establish rigorous methods for business cases, decision memos, portfolio reviews, and strategic planning, and coach colleagues to improve decision-making quality and speed.

Qualifications

  • Senior leadership experience in corporate strategy, general management, or equivalent enterprise mandate with a track record of shaping company direction and execution.
  • Functional and people leadership with success building high-performing teams and delivering results through others.
  • Executive and Board judgment with experience advising founders, senior executives, or Boards on consequential choices.
  • Commercial and financial depth with judgment across business models, partnerships, capital requirements, growth opportunities, and resource tradeoffs.
  • Cross-functional execution demonstrated by leading complex initiatives across functions without relying solely on direct reporting authority.
  • Exceptional communication skills including writing, synthesis, and executive communication.

Skills

Required:Strategic planningExecutive communicationLeadership and people managementCross-functional influenceFinancial and commercial acumen

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 Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Oklo

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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