Product Manager - Reactors

Oklo•Santa Clara, CA

4d•$140,000 - $200,000•Remote

About The Position

Oklo’s Product Managers are responsible for identifying, defining, developing, and deploying new products that advance the company’s mission. These products may involve new applications of Oklo’s technology, capabilities incorporated into future deployments, or offerings that create additional value for customers and stakeholders. The Product Manager works across engineering, commercial, operations, licensing, manufacturing, supply chain, and other functions to translate promising ideas into well-defined, deployable products. This role establishes the product vision, identifies customer and business needs, defines requirements and success criteria, and guides the product through technical development and deployment. This is a highly technical product role. The Product Manager must be able to understand complex engineered systems, work closely with technical teams, and make thoughtful tradeoffs among performance, cost, schedule, risk, manufacturability, licensing, and customer value. Successful candidates may come from a product management background with strong engineering experience or may be engineers who are excited to take broader ownership of product strategy and deployment.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in product management, engineering, systems engineering, technical program management, or a similar role developing complex technical products.
Specific experience with nuclear reactor technology in areas such as design, safety, licensing, construction, or operations.
An engineering degree or equivalent experience working directly with engineered systems and technical development teams.
Demonstrated experience translating customer, business, or operational needs into product requirements and development priorities.
Experience guiding technical work from early-stage concepts toward validated, deployable solutions.
Ability to understand complex technical information and make informed tradeoffs involving performance, cost, schedule, risk, and customer value.
Experience coordinating work and decisions across multiple technical and non-technical functions.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Proven ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing hardware, energy systems, industrial equipment, or other complex physical products.
Experience as a practicing engineer or technical lead.
Experience with product development in regulated industries such as nuclear energy, aerospace, medical devices, or advanced manufacturing.
Experience developing business cases, product roadmaps, technical requirements, or deployment strategies.
Experience working with customers, commercial partners, vendors, or government stakeholders.
Familiarity with isotope production, nuclear fuel, advanced manufacturing, or related technologies.
Experience in a startup or rapidly scaling organization.

Responsibilities

Identifying and evaluating opportunities for products, capabilities, and applications of Oklo nuclear reactor technology.
Developing clear product visions, value propositions, business cases, and deployment strategies.
Working with customers, partners, commercial teams, and internal stakeholders to understand needs and translate them into actionable product requirements.
Partnering closely with engineering teams to define product functionality, technical requirements, interfaces, performance objectives, and acceptance criteria.
Building and maintaining product roadmaps that connect technical development with commercial opportunities and deployment objectives.
Guiding reactor technology products from early concept and feasibility assessment through design, development, validation, and deployment.
Establishing appropriate product development plans, decision points, maturity criteria, and measures of success.
Leading cross-functional trade studies and decisions involving technical performance, safety, cost, schedule, licensing, manufacturability, operability, and commercial value.
Ensuring development work is appropriately sized and focused on resolving the most important product risks and uncertainties.
Coordinating across engineering, licensing, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, operations, finance, and commercial teams to maintain alignment and execution.
Identifying reactor technology product risks, dependencies, and critical decisions and ensuring they are clearly owned and resolved.
Communicating reactor technology product priorities, technical considerations, decisions, and progress to company leadership and other stakeholders.
Supporting design reviews, customer engagements, partner discussions, procurement activities, and deployment planning.
Developing a strong understanding of the technical and regulatory environment affecting the product and incorporating relevant constraints into reactor product strategy.
Gathering feedback from testing, deployment, operations, customers, and partners to guide continued product improvement.
Establishing clear reactor technology product ownership and maintaining accountability for overall product outcomes throughout the product lifecycle.