Legal Operations Manager

Summary

Join Oklo's Legal team as their Legal Operations Manager and play a crucial role in building a scalable and resilient operational legal infrastructure. You will focus on contract lifecycle management, corporate governance, outside counsel management, and other key administrative support areas. This role will leverage technology and process building to efficiently manage complex legal requirements. The ideal candidate has a paralegal background and can assist with routine legal tasks under the Head of Legal's supervision. Responsibilities include implementing and managing Oklo's contract lifecycle management system, overseeing corporate governance for subsidiaries, ensuring board documents are up-to-date, and developing processes for outside counsel management. The position requires a strong understanding of legal operations and experience with contract lifecycle management systems.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• Assist with submission and docketing of various legal filings (for example required SEC filings)

Preferred 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)

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Equity
• Competitive pay
• 401k
• Health insurance
• FSA
• Flexible work hours