Senior Counsel, Corporate

Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for a Senior Counsel, Corporate to join our Legal team.

Position Description

The Senior Counsel, Corporate will play a critical role supporting the Company’s continued growth across the business. We are looking for a junior-to-mid-level corporate attorney with 3-5 years of experience to help us across a range of needs. Primarily, this person will support our public company and corporate legal work, including SEC filings and public disclosure matters (e.g., annual and quarterly reports, proxy statement preparation, and Section 16 and Section 13 reporting matters), NYSE compliance, capital markets and financing support, annual meeting preparation, and diligence and negotiations for potential M&A and other strategic transactions. As a high growth company, you will also help out with ad hoc commercial contracting, legal research, and other legal needs across the company as they arise. This role, which reports to our Associate General Counsel, is perfect for a junior-to-mid-level transactional attorney who is comfortable acting as a corporate generalist, and who is looking to stretch themselves, learn, and roll up their sleeves and lean in wherever needed in a highly dynamic environment.

We are not looking for a niche specialist: we are looking for a lawyer who is comfortable being uncomfortable. We are growing fast and every day presents new opportunities and challenging legal questions—we care more about your judgment, agility, and ability to learn and grow than your specific substantive experience. If you are someone who thrives in exciting and fast-moving environments, and are eager to grow and push yourself, this role may be for you.

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Assist with preparing and reviewing our SEC filings and related disclosure materials, including our annual and quarterly reports, proxy statement, Section 16 and Section 13 reporting matters, and other public company reporting obligations 
• Support M&A and capital markets transactions, including diligence, document reviews, and deal timeline execution (i.e., drive deals forward!) 
• Assist with routine corporate legal work, including inter-company agreements, subsidiary management, corporate governance matters, board and committee resolutions and minutes
• Support compliance with NYSE listing standards and other public company governance requirements
• Help prepare for our annual meeting of stockholders, including supporting proxy-related work streams and related governance matters
• Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of strategic transaction documentation and commercial, vendor, partnership, license, and other business agreements
• Provide practical legal research and advice across a wide range of business teams
• Help us mature our legal practices and approach, including with respect to routine corporate, disclosure, compliance, and operational matters

Minimum Qualifications:

• A J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and admission to practice law in at least one U.S. state
• 3-5 years of corporate, securities, or transactional experience at a large law firm or in-house legal department
• Experience supporting a public company with SEC filings and board- and committee-related governance needs, including proxy preparation
• Experience with NYSE listing standards and related public company compliance matters
• Experience supporting strategic transactions, including M&A diligence, M&A integration, capital markets, and/or financing transactions
• Experience working at or supporting companies that build things (ideally complicated, heavily regulated things)
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage and prioritize multiple matters simultaneously

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience working in-house at a high-growth or startup company
• Experience with transactional work supporting complex construction or development projects
• Experience with joint ventures and/or project finance
• Experience with real estate transactions and/or environmental matters
• Nuclear, energy, infrastructure, or other highly regulated industry experience

Competencies

We are looking for a Senior Counsel, Corporate that is:

• Comfortable supporting a range of legal needs, with a primary focus on securities filings, corporate governance, NYSE compliance, M&A and strategic transactions, financing support, and commercial contracts
• Excited to move deals along and driving urgency among transaction stakeholders
• Effective at triaging and prioritizing across a wide range of tasks and project managing cross-functional tasks to completion
• A systems thinker that is comfortable both building for the long-term and rolling their sleeves up to get things done in the short term
• Substantively agile: someone who enjoys leaning into new areas, and is comfortable learning new things (and learning quickly!)
• Fluent in or able to leverage legal technology or AI tools to work more efficiently
• Willing to think creatively: knowledgeable about how other teams approach legal department needs, but excited to think creatively and critically about the problems they are solving and to try new approaches
• An excellent communicator (including to non-lawyers) focused on solutions and willing to explain the “why” behind legal advice
• Detail-oriented while moving lightning fast
• Passionate about clean energy and making advanced fission a reality
• An optimist at heart
• Resourceful, inquisitive, and willing and able to learn quickly
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment

Who you are:

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.

 

About Oklo travel requirements:

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.

 

About Oklo compensation:

Salary: $200,000-$225,000

Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401(k), health insurance (with employer contribution), HSA, FSA, flexible work hours, wellness credits, and other benefits.

We are looking to fill this position immediately! 

This position may involve access to information subject to U.S. export control laws. Only applicants who meet the definition of a U.S. person under applicable laws may be eligible.

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About Oklo Inc.: 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, and submitted the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Oklo is also developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.

#CHOP: Oklo’s Values
Collaboration: We go further, together. We bring diverse perspectives, listen actively, and build trust through transparency and respect. We work across disciplines, sharing ownership to turn complex challenges into shared successes.
Humility: We are team players who act for the good of the company and for the world. We are focused on our mission, not personal recognition.
Ownership: We take pride in what we do and how we do it. We are proactive in finding solutions and see tasks through  to completion. We are committed to delivering on our promises to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy.
Pathfinding: We chart new ground where no path exists by approaching challenges with curiosity, courage, and creativity while navigating ambiguity.