Chief of Staff to the Chief Product Officer

Role Overview

Chief of Staff to the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Oklo. This is a high-trust, cross-functional role focused on creating operating leverage for the CPO—not traditional calendar management. You will help turn ambiguous, fast-moving discussions into clear decisions and actions, keep workstreams from stalling, and build repeatable systems so the Product organization operates faster and with better coordination.

Responsibilities

• Create operating leverage for the CPO by managing priorities, communications, 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
• Convert fast, messy conversations into clear decisions, actions, owners, timelines, drafts, and ongoing follow-through
• Prepare and synthesize meetings and materials (e.g., 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 context-sharing
• Protect the CPO’s time by improving calendar quality, reducing unnecessary meetings, and surfacing the most important topics quickly
• Build better systems and repeatable workflows using AI, automation, and modern tools to make recurring work faster and more scalable

Minimum Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience supporting/partnering with a senior executive (e.g., CEO/CPO/COO/technical founder or similar high-demand executive)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for executive-ready materials
• Proven ability to manage complex priorities, communications, calendars, follow-through, and sensitive information with excellent judgment
• Experience in roles such as Chief of Staff, executive business partner, senior executive assistant, business operations, product operations, technical program/product operations, or similar high-leverage support
• Experience partnering across business-side teams including Product and often Engineering/Operations/Finance/Safety/Quality/Construction/Deployment/Commercial

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced startup environment or in renewable energy, nuclear, aerospace, or similarly complex/regulated industries
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a STEM field
• Experience using AI tools, automation, workflow systems, or advanced productivity tools to streamline executive operations

Desired Competencies

• Passion for clean energy and making advanced fission a reality
• Quick learner; highly proactive and comfortable doing the work without being told
• Technically fluent enough to engage with technical/engineering/STEM contexts
• Strong writing and synthesis skills with discretion and attention to detail
• Practical and organized: builds structure without unnecessary process
• Comfortable with direct communication and candid feedback

Location / Travel

• Based in Santa Clara, CA
• Frequent travel to support the CPO as needed