Senior Director, International Development

OKLO; United States; Remote; USD 250,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Equity participation

Health insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Wellness credits

Job summary

Oklo is seeking a Senior Director of International Affairs to drive international opportunities that advance our long-term strategy. The role connects market choices, sovereign capital, industrial partnerships, and cross-border initiatives across the company’s businesses and priorities.

You will report to the Chief of Strategy Officer and work with Finance, Legal, Government Affairs, and business units to ensure clear ownership, milestones, and execution.

Qualifications

• Experience in international business, strategic investing, government, industrial partnerships, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to develop substantive relationships with senior government, commercial, or financial counterparties.
• Strong commercial and financial judgment, including evaluating partnership economics, business cases, and capital structures.
• Experience leading cross-functional work with technical, legal, policy, and financial experts.
• Excellent writing and cross-cultural communication, sound discretion, and the ability to make practical recommendations.
• Must reside in the UK or the Netherlands.

Responsibilities

• Target markets and partnerships: Develop recommendations on priority markets, institutions, and opportunities.
• Sovereign and institutional relationships: Build relationships with sovereign investors and government institutions.
• Structure international opportunities: Develop business cases and structures for partnerships and cross-border initiatives.
• Advance transactions: Test economics, assess counterparties, and advance opportunities toward executable agreements.
• Navigate regulatory and policy dependencies: Coordinate on licensing, export, and other dependencies.
• Lead initiative execution: Manage milestones and decisions through launch or handoff.
• Prepare and represent leadership: Ready senior leadership for international engagements and coordinate follow-up.
• Align cross-functional stakeholders: Align plans with owners and avoid conflicting commitments.

Skills

Stakeholder relations

Strategic negotiation

Cross-functional leadership

Policy awareness

Executive communication

Job description

Thank you for considering Oklo. We are hiring a Senior Director, International Affairs to join our Strategy team.

Position Description

Oklo is seeking a Senior Director of International Affairs to develop international opportunities that can materially advance the company’s long-term strategy. This role connects market choices, senior relationships, sovereign and government capital, industrial partnerships, and selected cross-border initiatives.

You will help determine where Oklo should engage, which institutions matter, and what a credible partnership or investment proposition should look like.

The scope extends across the company’s businesses and strategic priorities, rather than being limited to individual international reactor deployment projects.

You will report to the Chief of Strategy Officer and work directly with the CSO on assigned initiatives. You will coordinate closely with the CFO organization, Government Affairs, Legal, technical and regulatory leaders, and business-unit teams, with explicit agreement on market coverage, counterpart relationships, and execution responsibilities.

This person must reside in either the United Kingdom or the Netherlands.

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Target markets and partnerships. Develop recommendations on priority markets, institutions, and opportunities based on strategic fit, partner capabilities, commercial demand, capital availability, timing, and risk.
• Sovereign and institutional relationships. Build and advance relationships with sovereign investors, government institutions, industrial partners, and other organizations relevant to Oklo’s global strategy.
• Structure international opportunities. Develop business cases and proposed structures for international partnerships, sovereign or government-capital opportunities, joint ventures, and other cross-border initiatives.
• Advance transactions. Work with Finance, Business Development, Corporate Development, Strategic Partnerships, and Legal to test economics, assess counterparties, develop terms, and advance approved opportunities toward executable agreements.
• Navigate regulatory and policy dependencies. Coordinate with Government Affairs and technical, regulatory, and legal specialists on political, policy, licensing, export, and other dependencies that affect an opportunity’s feasibility.
• Lead initiative execution. Lead assigned initiatives across internal teams and outside advisers, maintaining clear objectives, owners, milestones, and decisions through launch or handoff.
• Prepare and represent leadership. Prepare senior leadership for important international engagements and represent Oklo when delegated; work with the Strategy Associate on research, analysis, and materials and the Strategy Manager on coordinated follow‑through.
• Align cross-functional stakeholders. Align engagement plans with existing international and business-unit owners, avoid conflicting commitments, and recommend where to advance, defer, or decline an opportunity.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in international business, strategic investing, government, industrial partnerships, or a related field, with evidence of delivering outcomes across institutions and jurisdictions.
• Demonstrated ability to develop substantive relationships with senior government, commercial, or financial counterparties and translate engagement into concrete opportunities
• Strong commercial and financial judgment, including the ability to evaluate partnership economics, business cases, and potential capital structures.
• Experience leading cross-functional work while drawing on appropriate technical, legal, policy, and financial expertise.
• Excellent writing and cross-cultural communication, sound discretion, and the ability to make practical recommendations from incomplete information.
• Must reside in the UK or the Netherlands.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with sovereign investors, development finance, government-backed capital, or cross-border industrial ventures.
• Exposure to nuclear energy, the fuel cycle, infrastructure, advanced technology, or other strategically important industries.
• Experience connecting government and commercial objectives; relevant regional expertise or additional language capabilities.

Competencies

We are looking for a Senior Director, International Affairs that is:

• Able to connect geopolitical and institutional context to specific commercial choices
• Able to build durable trust while maintaining clear objectives and realistic commitments
• Able to work effectively across cultures, disciplines, and organizations with different incentives
• Can distinguish meaningful strategic progress from access, visibility, or meeting volume
• Passionate about clean energy
• Passionate about making advanced fission a reality
• Willing and able to learn quickly
• Highly strategic and a forward‑looking thinker
• An entrepreneurial mindset with comfort operating in ambiguity
• An exceptional communicator, negotiator, and has relationship‑building skills
• Contains a strong executive presence and cross‑functional leadership ability
• Aware of global perspectives with awareness of geopolitical and macroeconomic trends
• Passionate for building transformational infrastructure businesses
• Eager to work on a dynamic team, receive constructive feedback, and grow with us
• Willing to think differently and do things in new ways
• Comfortable in a fast‑paced, highly iterative startup environment
• Excited to think creatively, critically, and reflectively about the problems they are solving, while not leaning only on what has been done before
• Willing to propose novel and creative solutions to technical problems
• An excellent writer who can write in modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well!
• Able to communicate technical content and results verbally

Who you are:

A startup person: You aren’t driven by titles or hierarchy, and prefer efficiency to excess process. You don’t need or expect to have a lot of guidance but you enjoy working in a fast‑paced team. If you prefer the culture and feel of a large organization, that is great, but you likely won’t enjoy working with us! There is plenty of important work and plenty of good opportunities with organizations like that.

Motivated: You are self‑motivated. You bring an enthusiasm to the team, and imbue a sense of passion that goes beyond clocking in and clocking out. This isn’t about a fake or arbitrary “pieces of flair” mentality or lack of work‑life balance! It is about being a part of the vision and feeling a part of reaching team goals.

A team‑player: Oklo genuinely is a team. We aren’t about taking credit for ourselves, and we aren’t about pushing blame to others. We do incredible things because we work as a team.

An excellent communicator: We need a person who is not only technically competent but also a clear and upbeat communicator.

Creative: Being creative means that when things fall outside clear scopes or processes or problems arise without clear solutions, you are able to identify it as well as invent ways to solve a problem or fill a need without micromanagement. The successful person in this job will not only be creative, but also enjoy being creative and solving open‑ended problems which may change day‑by‑day.

Detail‑oriented: This focus is a big part of excellence, consistency, and quality. Excellent grammar and spelling matter for both good communication as well as the image of the company that we put forward.

About Oklo compensation:

Salary: $250,000-$290,000

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

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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