Vice President of Strategy

Oklo•Washington, DC

6h•$250,000 - $280,000•Remote

About The Position

Oklo is hiring a Vice President of Strategy to build and lead its corporate strategy function. Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, the role shapes enterprise strategy, leads the Strategy team, and helps the company make and execute consequential decisions. The function is expected to identify emerging opportunities and risks, develop independent points of view, and focus resources on the company’s highest-priority questions and initiatives. The Vice President sets the function’s agenda and standards and leads work from early thesis development through executive decision, execution, and handoff. The position works directly with the founders, CFO, and business-unit leaders, bringing forward recommendations, constructively challenging assumptions, and leading the Strategy function’s contribution to executive and Board decisions. The role is accountable for the quality of company-level strategy, the effectiveness of the Strategy function, and the impact of its initiatives. Significant travel for executive working sessions, team collaboration, and selected engagements may be required. Remote employees must travel to the Santa Clara, California headquarters twice per quarter based on business or team needs. Employees are also required to be at headquarters in person for the first two weeks of onboarding. The position may involve access to information subject to U.S. export control laws; eligibility may be limited to applicants who meet the applicable definition of a U.S. person. Employment may be contingent on successful completion of a drug screening, and employees may be subject to drug testing in accordance with company policy and applicable laws.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Build and lead the corporate strategy function, including designing its operating model, hiring and developing talent, allocating resources, and owning team standards, quality, and results.
Own the development and refinement of Oklo’s long-range enterprise strategy, including portfolio choices, priority markets, business models, growth platforms, and allocation of leadership attention and company resources.
Set a proactive strategic agenda by identifying opportunities, risks, and unanswered questions and recommending what the company should pursue, defer, reshape, or decline.
Lead the Strategy team’s delivery of annual and multi-year planning, objectives and key results, scorecards, and initiative reviews.
Support the strategic evaluation of partnerships, creative capital initiatives, acquisitions, new ventures, international opportunities, and structural options in collaboration with relevant business units and functional owners.
Own the strategic-initiative portfolio by establishing objectives, accountable leaders, milestones, decision points, and review mechanisms, and recommend whether work should advance, be resourced, redirected, stopped, or handed off.
Advise executive leadership and the Board with independent, evidence-based recommendations; constructively challenge assumptions; frame alternatives and tradeoffs; and lead consequential strategic discussions.
Personally lead selected high-stakes initiatives through decision, launch, transaction, or a clear operational handoff.
Integrate strategy across the company by partnering with Finance, Corporate Development, Strategic Partnerships, Legal, Government Affairs, international teams, technical and regulatory leaders, and business units.
Build company-wide strategy capability by establishing rigorous methods for business cases, decision memos, portfolio reviews, and strategic planning, and coaching colleagues to improve decision quality and speed.