Technical Product Owner

About Graphcore 

At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute.

We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale.

As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.

To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.

We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence.

Job Summary  

We are looking for a Product Owner to work with a component-based software team, helping translate product outcomes into clear, prioritised, and deliverable component-level work. 

In this role, you will sit at the intersection of product intent, technical delivery, and cross-team collaboration. You will not be responsible for defining product strategy alone, nor for managing people — instead, your focus is on enabling your team to deliver the right technical outcomes & contributions to wider customer and business outcomes. 

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working closely with engineers and developers, navigating dependencies, and bringing clarity to complex systems. 

The Team 

The software teams this role supports operate from bare metal silicon all the way to the top of the Machine learning tools stack. Our organisation is structured around component-based engineering teams within the engineering function, and you will play a key role in one or more of these teams. 

Responsibilities and Duties 

Own and Shape the Component Backlog:

• Create and maintain team roadmaps for the Program Increment (PI) and long term plan to help visualise the current backlog and communicate status and progress to all stakeholders. 

• Translate feature-level intent into actionable component-level work and feedback team intent and challenges to help shape the features with the Product Manager. 

• Maintain a clear, prioritised backlog of Epics and Stories for your component team. 

• Ensure all work is clearly linked to higher-level product outcomes. 

Support Delivery Across Sprints and Planning Increments: 

• Actively support sprint planning, reviews, demos, providing visual outputs that demonstrate progress against the plan, learnings and changes. 

• Involve the team in the right discussions to ensure desired outcomes are realistic, and the team’s ability to deliver them are clearly communicated. 

• Ensure the backlog is sufficiently maintained to prepare for PI planning, identifying dependencies and risks early and aligning with other teams on the scope taken into planning. 

• Ensure your team’s work aligns with agreed PI objectives. 

Coordinate Across Teams:

• Work closely with other Product Owners, Product Managers, and Technical Leads to manage cross-team dependencies. 

• Coordinate early with QA and Performance teams to support integrated delivery. 

• Help ensure integration and system behaviour are planned. 

Champion Quality, Collaboration, and Trust:

• Define clear component-level acceptance criteria and support readiness for integration and release. 

• Contributing to a growing community of practise developing ways of working to find the best way to deliver 

• Encourage open discussion, early risk-sharing, and constructive challenge. 

• Act as a servant leader: removing obstacles, protecting team focus, and enabling empowered decision-making. 

Candidate Profile 

Essential: 

• Experience working as a Product Owner (or similar role) in an agile environment. 

• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

• Strong backlog management and refinement skills. 

• Proven experience in developing product vision and roadmaps 

• Strategic mindset with empathy and ability to bring calm, clarity and support. 

• Excellent facilitation skills, ability to guide discussions / events to conclusion 

• Ability to simplify and present complex information. 

• Confidence working with technical teams and complex systems. 

• Experience coordinating work across multiple teams or components. 

Desirable 

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) 

• Experience of working in SAFe / Scrum@scale 

• Experience with Atlassian Tool Suite.  

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.

Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications