Oklo - Portfolio Planner

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Operations, Finance, Business, Data Analytics, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience • 7+ years of progressive experience in portfolio planning, workforce planning, project controls, integrated scheduling, operations planning, FP&A, or a closely related field • Experience translating project schedules, roadmaps, or operational plans into resource demand and capacity requirements across multiple departments or projects • Experience designing and applying common coding structures, taxonomies, work breakdown structures, resource breakdown structures, or comparable planning frameworks • Strong quantitative and modeling skills, including the ability to develop proxy-based demand models, scenarios, and management-level insights from imperfect data • Advanced spreadsheet skills and experience with scheduling, planning, business-intelligence, or workforce-planning tools • Proven ability to establish planning processes and data governance across cross-functional teams without direct authority • Clear written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting recommendations and tradeoffs to senior stakeholders • Experience supporting nuclear, energy, engineering, manufacturing, construction, EPC, or other large capital project portfolios • Experience with Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, or portfolio scheduling platforms • Familiarity with ERP, HRIS, time-phased resource planning, business-intelligence, or project cost systems • Understanding of management accounting, project capitalization, internal labor allocation, or government-funded project reporting • Experience developing resource benchmarks or learning curves across FOAK and repeat deployments • Startup or high-growth company experience • Competencies • We are looking for a Portfolio Planner that is: • Able to connect detailed project plans to enterprise-level workforce and investment decisions • Systems-oriented and comfortable building structure where processes and data are still maturing • Pragmatic about using proxy metrics initially and disciplined about improving assumptions with actual data • Objective and confident in surfacing capacity constraints, competing priorities, and planning gaps early • Collaborative with project and department leaders while maintaining enterprise-wide consistency • Curious about how teams create value and how internal resources drive project outcomes • Clear in distinguishing committed work, forecast demand, available capacity, and planning scenarios • Analytically rigorous and comfortable working with large, incomplete datasets • Effective at translating complex analysis into simple, actionable leadership insights • Passionate about clean energy • Passionate about making advanced fission a reality • Willing and able to learn quickly • 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 • 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. • Oklo requires remote employees to travel to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) twice a quarter annually, based on business or team needs, including attendance at team meetings, off-sites, and other company events or gatherings. For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.