Technical Product Owner

The Team

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 Technical Product Owners, Technical 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.

Essential

Desirable

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