Head of Strategy

OKLO; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex time off

Equity

Bonuses

Competitive pay

401(k)

Health insurance

HSA

FSA

Flexible work hours

Wellness credits

Other benefits

Job summary

Oklo Inc. is seeking a Head of Strategy to build and lead the company’s corporate Strategy function.

Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, you will shape enterprise strategy, lead the Strategy team, and guide the company through its most consequential decisions. You will collaborate with founders, CFO, and business-unit leaders, setting the agenda, surfacing independent viewpoints, and ensuring coherence of strategy across the organization.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience leading corporate strategy or equivalent.
• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing strategy teams.
• Experience advising founders, executives, or boards on critical decisions.
• Strong judgment across business models, partnerships, and growth opportunities.
• Track record leading cross-functional initiatives with no direct reporting lines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and run the corporate strategy function and its operating model.
• Lead enterprise strategy, portfolio choices, and growth platforms.
• Set strategic agenda and sponsor analysis on priorities.
• Oversee annual and multi-year planning, OKRs, and reviews.
• Evaluate partnerships, acquisitions, and new ventures.
• Lead selected high-stakes initiatives through to execution.

Skills

Senior leadership

Functional leadership

Executive judgment

Commercial depth

Cross-functional execution

Executive communication

Job description

Thank you for considering Oklo. We are hiring a Head of Strategy to build and lead our corporate Strategy function.

Position Description

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.

• 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.
• Personally lead selected high-stakes initiatives. Take direct responsibility for a small number of the company's most important initiatives through decision, launch, transaction, or a clear operational handoff.
• Integrate strategy across the company. Partner with Finance, Corporate Development, Strategic Partnerships, Legal, Government Affairs, international teams, technical and regulatory leaders, and business units so company-level choices remain coherent 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 the quality and speed of decision-making.

Minimum Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience. Substantial experience leading corporate strategy, general management, business building, or a comparable enterprise mandate, with a record of shaping company direction and driving implementation.
• Functional and people leadership. Demonstrated success building high-performing teams, setting an agenda, developing talent, managing performance, and delivering results through others.
• Executive and Board judgment. Experience advising founders, senior executives, or Boards on consequential choices and creating alignment around difficult decisions.
• Commercial and financial depth. Strong judgment across business models, partnerships, capital requirements, growth opportunities, portfolio choices, and resource tradeoffs.
• Cross-functional execution. A record of leading complex initiatives across functions and business units without relying solely on direct reporting authority.
• Exceptional communication. Excellent writing, synthesis, and executive communication, with the credibility to challenge assumptions and represent the company with senior counterparties.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience building a Strategy function or leading strategy across multiple businesses in a growing, capital-intensive, or regulated company.
• Experience with industrial or technology partnerships, capital formation, international initiatives, acquisitions, or new ventures.
• Experience leading executive and Board strategy work and establishing effective company planning and accountability processes.
• Takes ownership of the function's agenda, people, standards, and results.
• Brings independent judgment and imagination, grounded in evidence and commercial discipline.
• Develops strong teams, builds alignment, and makes difficult tradeoffs explicit.
• Welcomes constructive disagreement and combines senior leadership with hands‑on work.

Who you are:

You want to own a meaningful part of a company's direction and build the team that makes it actionable. You bring an agenda, not just an answer to someone else's question. You can challenge an executive, align business leaders, develop talented colleagues, and take responsibility for what happens next.

Significant travel for executive working sessions, team collaboration, and selected engagements may be required. Oklo requires remote employees to travel to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) twice a quarter annually, based on business or team needs, including attendance at team meetings, off‑sites, and other company events or gatherings. For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.

• flexible time off
• equity
• bonuses
• competitive pay
• 401(k)
• health insurance (with employer contribution)
• HSA
• FSA
• flexible work hours
• wellness credits
• and other benefits

This position may involve access to information subject to U.S. export control laws. Only applicants who meet the definition of a U.S. person under applicable laws may be eligible.

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.

#CHOP: Oklo’s Values

Collaboration: We go further, together. We bring diverse perspectives, listen actively, and build trust through transparency and respect. We work across disciplines, sharing ownership to turn complex challenges into shared successes.

Humility: We are team players who act for the good of the company and for the world. We are focused on our mission, not personal recognition.

Ownership: We take pride in what we do and how we do it. We are proactive in finding solutions and see tasks through to completion. We are committed to delivering on our promises to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy.

Pathfinding: We chart new ground where no path exists by approaching challenges with curiosity, courage, and creativity while navigating ambiguity.

Candidates should be aware that employment may be contingent upon successful completion of a drug screening, and employees may be subject to drug testing at any time in accordance with company policy and applicable laws.

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