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Salary: USD 150,000 - 190,000 / annual
Oklo is seeking a strategic Portfolio Planner to translate the company's project portfolio into an integrated organizational resource and staffing plan. This is a hybrid role based in Santa Clara, CA, with remote flexibility (requiring travel to headquarters twice quarterly and in-person onboarding for two weeks).
The Portfolio Planner will establish and govern a common coding structure across project schedules, connect project milestones to department-specific workload requirements, and develop repeatable demand models accounting for project type, scale, complexity, and maturity. You will work with project teams and department leaders to convert the portfolio roadmap into forward-looking capacity requirements, identify resource constraints, and inform the timing and mix of internal hiring, redeployment, and external support.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing and implementing a portfolio schedule coding structure with consistent attributes across projects
- Developing scalable workload requirements by department and project phase using proxy-based demand curves
- Translating portfolio schedules into rolling resource plans by department, role, capability, and time period
- Modeling portfolio scenarios (sequencing, acceleration, delay, prioritization) to show effects on staffing, milestones, and cost
- Building and maintaining an integrated operating plan connecting project milestones, workload demand, headcount, and functional commitments
- Partnering with Finance and Accounting to develop management accounting frameworks for resource deployment and project costs
- Defining data governance, ownership, and quality checks across planning systems
- Producing executive-ready insights on portfolio demand, capacity gaps, staffing risks, and utilization trends
- Using actual performance data to calibrate demand assumptions and improve planning accuracy
Over time, this role will help develop management accounting frameworks that improve visibility into internal resource utilization, total project cost, and value created by internal teams, supporting operating decisions, capital planning, and project benchmarking.
The role reports to the Sr. Director of Project Budgeting and Controls and partners closely with Project Budgeting and Controls, project teams, functional leaders, Finance, Accounting, and People Operations.
Oklo is developing advanced fission power plants for clean energy, fuel recycling technologies, and critical radioisotope supply chains. The company was the first to receive a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy for a commercial advanced fission plant and submitted the first custom combined license application for an advanced reactor to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Operations, Finance, Business, Data Analytics, or related discipline (or equivalent experience)
- 7+ years of progressive experience in portfolio planning, workforce planning, project controls, integrated scheduling, operations planning, FP&A, or 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 ability to develop proxy-based demand models and scenarios 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
**Bonus qualifications:**
- 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
