Job description
Thanks for your interest in Oklo! We are searching for a Legal Operations Manager to join our Legal team.
Position Description:
The Legal Operations Manager will play a crucial role helping our Legal team build a scalable and resilient operational legal infrastructure to support the Company’s continuing growth. More specifically, the Legal Operations Manager will focus on contract lifecycle management, corporate governance (in particular overseeing our subsidiaries and managing our intercompany agreements), outside counsel management, and other key areas of administrative support. In particular, this role will help us utilize technology and build processes to help us reliably manage our complex legal requirements in a manageable, efficient, and ultimately scalable way. We are looking for a candidate who has a background as a paralegal, and can additionally pitch in with routine matters under the supervision of the Head of Legal, including review of routine contracts and assisting with filing and docketing.
Specific responsibilities may include:
- Implement and manage Oklo’s contract lifecycle management system, including configuring templates and systems (and keeping them updated), building workflows, and generating meaningful analytics and data on Oklo’s overall end-to-end legal activity;
- Oversee corporate governance requirements for Oklo’s subsidiaries, including tracking required filings, registrations, and intercompany agreements;
- Ensure all of Oklo’s board and corporate governance documents are up to date;
- Develop process to track outside counsel spend by matter, to manage pre-approved budgets, and to obtain accurate monthly accruals from each of our law firms;
- Work with our Head of Legal to develop and implement Outside Counsel Guidelines;
- Build a structured repository for all Legal files and records, and keep the repository updated;
- Help to maintain internal legal trainings and resources;
- Assist with review of routine contracts, NDAs, MOUs, PPAs, etc.; and
- Assist with submission and docketing of various legal filings (for example required SEC filings)
Competencies:
We are looking for a Legal Operations Manager that is:
- Comfortable supporting a range of legal needs, including contract management, subsidiary governance, outside counsel billing and budgeting, legal knowledge management, etc.
- Deeply knowledgeable about the current state of legal technology, and how to best use technology to solve for legal department needs
- A systems thinker that is comfortable both building for the long-term (and project managing cross-functional tasks to completion) and rolling their sleeves up to get things done in the short term
- 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
- Detail-oriented while moving lightning fast
- Passionate about clean energy and making advanced fission a reality
- An optimist at heart
- Willing and able to learn quickly
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment
Minimum Qualifications:
- A strong understanding of legal department needs and operations
- Demonstrated experience managing and ideally implementing a contract lifecycle management system
- Experience managing entities from creation to dissolution, including managing all associated corporate governance and compliance requirements
- Knowledge of legal billing practices and managing outside counsel budgets
- Experience at a public company, and supporting on public company/SEC-related legal work
- Experience scaling legal operations in a startup or high growth environment (i.e. scrappiness)
- Paralegal certification, or experience working as a paralegal
Bonus Qualifications:
- Experience reviewing routine contracts and/or NDAs
- Experience supporting IP teams (for example working to collect evidence of use for trademark filings, or docketing for patent applications)
- Experience supporting Board-related corporate governance needs
- Experience using an online platform (like Workiva) to prepare and complete SEC filings
- Energy or Project Finance experience (particularly relating to entity management) including a familiarity with Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)
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 compensation: $100,000-150,000
Oklo offers flexible time off, equity, competitive pay, 401k, health insurance, FSA, flexible work hours, and other benefits.
We are looking to fill this position immediately!
About Oklo Inc.: Oklo Inc. (NYSE: OKLO) is a fast fission clean power technology and nuclear fuel recycling company developing fast fission power plants to provide clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale. Oklo received a site use permit from the U.S. Department of Energy, was awarded fuel material from Idaho National Laboratory, submitted the first advanced fission custom combined license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and is developing advanced fuel recycling technologies in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. National Laboratories.
