People Operations Coordinator

Thanks for your interest in Oklo!  We are searching for a People Operations Coordinator to join our team. 

Position Description

The People Operations Coordinator helps bring Oklo’s culture, workplace experience, and team operations to life. This role supports the daily rhythm of the company, coordinating logistics, maintaining people-facing systems and processes, and ensuring that Okloers feel supported, connected, and informed. The ideal candidate is highly organized, approachable, and proactive— an enthusiastic educator at heart and someone who gets energy from supporting others and bringing structure to dynamic environments. They combine administrative precision with warmth and passion for building a great workplace culture from day one. 

This is a hybrid role located in Santa Clara, CA.

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Coordinate employee lifecycle logistics related to hiring, onboarding, welcome communications, and training scheduling/tracking
• Assist with onboarding and offboarding documentation, access setup coordination, and routine checklist tracking
• Provide basic support for benefit communications (not administration) and direct employees to the right resources
• Help maintain accurate employee records, templates, and shared HR documents in our HRIS (Workday)
• Support internal communications and maintain the People Ops sections of shared drives or tools
• Help plan and execute company-wide events, celebrations, and team-building activities (both in-person and virtual)
• Strategize on additional employee engagement initiatives to strengthen belonging, connection, and visibility across teams
• Partner with the Office Manager and Operations team on facilities and workspace experience
• Support rollouts of company values initiatives, recognition programs, and culture campaigns.
• Help collect and organize employee feedback and data for the People team.
• Assist with vendor management, contract negotiations, and purchase orders for people- and culture-related initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2–5 years of experience in a coordination, administrative, people operations, or workplace experience role
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Comfortable handling sensitive information with discretion and professionalism
• Proactive, adaptable, and energized by supporting others in a dynamic environment.
• Experience with Workday highly preferred

Competencies

We are looking for a People Operations Coordinator that is:

• 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
• An excellent writer who can write in modern active voice, so make your cover letter compelling and write it well!
• Able to communicate technical content and results verbally 

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.

About Oklo compensation:

Salary: $85,000-$115,000

Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.

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.

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.