Director, Deployment Strategy & Execution

Oklo Inc; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Oklo Inc. is seeking a Director of Deployment Strategy and Integration to lead high-visibility cross-functional deployment workstreams from framing to implementation.

This role requires navigating ambiguity, synthesizing inputs from technical, regulatory, commercial, and government domains, and driving teams to decisions and action. The ideal candidate will combine judgment, bold leadership, and clear writing to influence senior leaders without direct authority and to deliver executable

Qualifications

• Typically 10+ years of relevant experience with demonstrated scope, judgment, and outcomes.
• A record of independently leading complex, cross-functional work from ambiguity to concrete outcomes.
• Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior leaders without direct authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in clear, modern language.
• Ability to learn technical and operational subject matter quickly and ask precise questions.
• Experience carrying decisions into implementation and adapting as facts change.
• Operate with limited direction and credibly represent a senior leader within a defined mandate.

Responsibilities

• Own top-priority cross-functional deployment workstreams from problem definition through decision and implementation.
• Enter ambiguous situations, identify the underlying question, and build a practical path to an answer.
• Develop integrated recommendations that connect technical, regulatory, financial, construction, schedule, operational, customer, and government inputs.
• Separate facts, assumptions, constraints, and preferences; test whether the available evidence supports the current plan.
• Develop options with clear tradeoffs, second-order effects, owners, timing, and a recommended path.
• Convene cross-functional teams, clarify interfaces, surface conflicts, and drive issues to closure or timely escalation.
• Write concise decision memos, executive updates, meeting narratives, and implementation plans that stand on their own.
• Represent the Senior Director, Deployments in defined meetings and workstreams and follow through on commitments within that mandate.
• Convert lessons from live projects into practical, repeatable deployment practices for the broader portfolio.

Skills

Leadership

Executive presence

Writing

Systems thinking

Independent decision-making

Problem framing

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Job description

Oklo Inc. is seeking a Director of Deployment Strategy and Integration to lead high-visibility cross-functional deployment workstreams from framing to implementation.

This role requires navigating ambiguity, synthesizing inputs from technical, regulatory, commercial, and government domains, and driving teams to decisions and action. The ideal candidate will combine judgment, bold leadership, and clear writing to influence senior leaders without direct authority and to deliver executable