Chief of Staff to the Chief Product Officer

Role Description

Oklo is hiring a Chief of Staff to work directly with the Chief Product Officer and create real operating leverage for the CPO and Product organization. This is not a traditional calendar-management role. It is a high-trust role that operates across Product and cross-functionally across Oklo.

This person will:

• Keep open loops from falling through the cracks.
• Turn fast and messy conversations into clear decisions and actions.
• Help prepare and synthesize meetings and materials.
• Coordinate across leaders, product lines, and deployments.
• Build better systems to avoid solving the same problem twice.
• Ensure the CPO has more time with direct reports and space for deep-focus work.
• Support a more focused, faster, and better-coordinated Product organization.

There will be frequent travel to support the CPO as needed.

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Create operating leverage for the CPO by managing priorities, communications, time, follow-through, decision support, and organizational coordination.
• Keep open loops, pending decisions, follow-ups, commitments, risks, and dependencies from falling through the cracks across Product and key cross-functional workstreams.
• Turn fast, messy conversations into clear decisions, actions, owners, timelines, drafts, and follow-through.
• Prepare and synthesize meetings and materials, including summaries, rundowns, follow-up notes, first drafts, decision documents, board materials, and executive communications.
• Coordinate across direct reports, senior leaders, product lines, deployments, and cross-functional partners to strengthen alignment and ensure the right people have the right context.
• Protect the CPO’s time by improving calendar quality, reducing unnecessary meetings, creating space for deep-focus work, and surfacing the most important topics quickly.
• Build better systems and repeatable workflows using AI, automation, and modern tools so recurring work is faster, cleaner, and more scalable.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience supporting or partnering with a senior executive, ideally a CEO, CPO, COO, technical founder, or similarly high-demand executive.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-ready materials.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex priorities, communications, calendars, follow-through, and sensitive information with excellent judgment.
• Prior experience in a Chief of Staff, executive business partner, senior executive assistant, business operations, product operations, technical program/product operations, or similar high-leverage executive support role.
• Experience working closely with Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Safety, Quality, Construction, Deployment, Commercial, or other business-side teams.

Requirements

• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment or within the renewable energy, nuclear, aerospace, or a similarly complex, highly regulated industry (Bonus Qualification).
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), or a closely related technical field (Bonus Qualification).
• Experience using AI tools, automation, workflow systems, or advanced productivity tools to streamline executive operations preferred (Bonus Qualification).

Benefits

• Salary: $90,000-$225,000.
• Flexible time off.
• Equity and bonuses.
• Competitive pay.
• 401(k) and health insurance (with employer contribution).
• HSA, FSA, flexible work hours, wellness credits, and other benefits.

Company Description

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.
• Submitted the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
• Developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.