Senior Counsel

Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for a Senior Counsel to join our Legal team. Position Description: ​​The Senior Counsel will play a critical role supporting the Company’s project development work across the business. We are looking for a mid-level transactional attorney with 5-7 years of experience to help us across a range of needs. Primarily, this person will support ongoing projects, including supporting pre-construction efforts, environmental reviews, state and local regulatory needs, tax incentive work, and procurement. As a high growth company, you will also help out with other legal needs across the company as they arise. This role, which reports to our Deputy General Counsel, is perfect for a mid-level transactional attorney with experience supporting complex, highly-regulated construction projects, who is looking to stretch themselves, learn, and roll up their sleeves and lean in wherever needed in a dynamic environment. We are not looking for a niche specialist: we are looking for a lawyer who is comfortable being uncomfortable. Oklo is growing fast and every day presents new opportunities and challenging legal questions—we care more about you and your ability to learn and grow than your specific substantive experience or which boxes you check. 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. This is a remote role, but bonus points to someone located in a state in which we have a significant project, including Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Idaho. Specific responsibilities may include: Support our growing list of projects across their life cycle, including supporting with pre-construction, construction, environmental, commercial, and tax needs Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of commercial, procurement, supply chain, partnership, vendor, and license agreements Assist with state and local regulatory needs, including supporting our government affairs and community affairs teams with permitting needs Help us mature our legal practices and approach, including with respect to routine commercial 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 (with a preference for Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, or Idaho, given the location of our core projects) 5-7 years of transactional experience at a large law firm or in-house legal department Experience with environmental permitting, compliance, and regulatory considerations affecting construction or development projectsExperience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements 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 Nuclear and/or energy experience Competencies: We are looking for a Senior Counsel that is: Comfortable supporting a range of legal needs, ideally including environmental, tax, permitting, and commercial needs 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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)