Engineering Operations Manager
Oklo Inc
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $180,000 per year
About the role
- Partnering closely with senior engineering product leaders to surface pain points and prioritize organizational improvements.
- Diagnosing root causes across process, tooling, ownership, communication, and cross‑team interfaces.
- Designing and implementing lightweight, scalable operating systems for planning, goal‑setting, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Building dashboards, summaries, and reporting that improve leadership visibility without creating busywork for engineers.
- Improving how engineering and product teams interface with each other and with non‑engineering groups.
- Ensuring engineering and product knowledge, decisions, and best practices are clearly documented and easy to access.
- Improving structure, standards, and usability of shared tools (e.g., Confluence, Jira, internal dashboards).
- Identifying opportunities to replace overly manual workflows with automation or improved tooling.
- Partnering with People Ops on engineering‑specific onboarding, growth frameworks, org changes, and performance processes.
- Working with Business Ops and Procurement to streamline budgeting, purchasing, and resource planning for engineering teams.
- Establishing effective meeting, calendar, and Slack practices that maximize clarity and minimize overhead.
- Coordinating high‑leverage engineering and product forums (e.g., offsites, design reviews, all‑hands) to ensure they are purposeful and well‑run.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in engineering operations, product operations, management consulting, technical program management, or similar roles.
- Demonstrated experience improving cross-functional workflows, operating models, or organizational systems.
- Experience working directly with senior leadership (Director-level and above) to diagnose problems, influence decisions, and implement change.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Benefits
- flexible time off
- equity
- competitive pay
- 401k
- health insurance
- FSA
- flexible work hours
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
engineering operationsproduct operationsmanagement consultingtechnical program managementcross-functional workflowsoperating modelsorganizational systemsautomationreportinggoal-setting
Soft Skills
communication skillsindependenceproblem diagnosisinfluencing decisionsimplementing changeorganizational improvementcollaborationleadership visibilityclarityadaptability