How to apply for Director of Market Analytics

About Oklo

Oklo is a nuclear technology company developing next-generation fast fission reactors and nuclear waste recycling. The company's stated mission is to provide clean, reliable, affordable energy, and it is building a pipeline of Aurora powerhouse projects. This role sits inside the Origination organization, so the work directly feeds site selection, offtake deals, and project finance models.

About the role

The Director of Market Analytics owns Oklo's long-term power market forecasting across target geographies, covering capacity prices, energy prices, ancillary services, and carbon compliance costs. You build and maintain models for AI datacenter load growth, electrification, retirements, new build pipeline, and transmission constraints. Your analysis supports site selection, PPA negotiations, and revenue inputs for project finance, reporting to the Sr Director of Origination and partnering with Land & Real Estate and Finance.

A typical day

A typical day involves updating market models, reviewing ISO/RTO data releases, and preparing market assessments for site selection or offtake discussions. You might meet with Land & Real Estate on a specific geography, work with Finance on revenue model inputs, or brief the Sr Director of Origination on a go/no-go recommendation. Policy tracking and competitive intelligence are ongoing parts of the role.

Who Oklo is looking for

• Deep experience with ISO/RTO markets, including capacity market results, energy market dynamics, and grid planning studies.
• Able to build and maintain long-term power price forecasts across multiple geographies and scenarios.
• Comfortable translating market intelligence into pricing benchmarks, contract structure norms, and counterparty credit analysis for PPA negotiations.
• Tracks federal and state energy policy closely, including IRA provisions and carbon compliance costs, and can connect policy changes to project economics.
• Works well with land, finance, and origination teams, and can present go/no-go recommendations clearly to decision-makers.

Tips for this application

• Show specific ISO/RTO market experience in your resume. Name the markets you have modeled and the types of forecasts you produced.
• Describe at least one example where your market analysis changed a site selection, offtake, or project finance decision. Quantify the outcome if possible.
• Demonstrate familiarity with AI datacenter load growth as a demand driver. Explain how you would model it and what data sources you would use.
• Reference Oklo's Aurora powerhouse pipeline and explain how market analytics would support its deployment. Do not just repeat the job description.
• Connect your policy tracking work to commercial outcomes. Show how you have turned IRA or state policy changes into pricing or contracting recommendations.

What to cover in your cover letter

Explain how you would build Oklo's long-term power market forecasting function from the ground up, including data sources and model structure. Give a concrete example of market intelligence you produced that supported a PPA negotiation or project finance model. Show how you would assess AI datacenter load growth and its effect on site selection. Describe how you track federal and state policy and convert it into assumptions for revenue models.

Research before applying

• Read Oklo's public materials on the Aurora powerhouse design and its announced project pipeline.
• Study recent ISO/RTO capacity market results and grid planning studies in the regions Oklo targets.
• Review IRA provisions relevant to nuclear and clean energy, including any tax credits or compliance mechanisms that affect project revenue.
• Look into AI datacenter load growth forecasts and how they are changing utility and ISO planning assumptions.

Likely interview topics

Based on the job description, expect questions about:

• How would you structure a long-term power market forecast for a new geography Oklo is considering?
• Walk through a time your market analysis directly influenced a site selection or offtake decision.
• How do you model AI datacenter load growth, and what data would you trust?
• What ISO/RTO capacity market results have you analyzed recently, and what did they signal for new build economics?
• How would you translate policy changes, such as IRA provisions or carbon compliance costs, into inputs for project finance models?

Common mistakes to avoid

• Applying with only general energy market experience and no specific ISO/RTO forecasting work.
• Ignoring the nuclear and waste recycling angle, which affects policy, licensing, and offtake assumptions.
• Submitting a cover letter that repeats the job description without showing how you would build the forecasting function at Oklo.