Technology Owner
Graphcore · Bristol
About the job
We are looking for a Technology Owner to work closely with the Software Infrastructure team, providing clear goals, determining requirements and supporting successful delivery. You will connect product intent, engineering delivery and cross-team coordination.
The team and culture
Reporting to a Technology Manager (Product Manager), this role sits at the intersection of product delivery and engineering execution and would benefit from knowledge of software infrastructure design and support. You will help translate roadmap priorities and feature requirements into clear, actionable work for the Software Infrastructure teams, while coordinating closely with other Technology Owners (Technical Product Owners), engineering teams, and technical leads across the wider software organisation. The role requires strong organisational skills alongside sufficient technical understanding to engage effectively with engineers and help guide backlog refinement, dependency management, and delivery planning with either feature validation or Infrastructure delivery and support.
You will work with the Software Infrastructure team, an expanding 30-person team, who provide and lead the platforms and services used by the wider Software organisation to build, test and develop Graphcore software. This requires a broad knowledge of the products we provide and how we can optimise and scale these systems as the company grows. The Software Infrastructure team aligns with the ML stack software team processes planning in increments but works with several other areas within Graphcore too.
As a Technology Owner you will help coordinate and prioritise work for the multiple sub-teams within Software Infrastructure, ensuring they have clear direction, well-defined deliverables, and alignment with wider software roadmap objectives.
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 Software Infrastructure work and feedback team intent and challenges to help shape the features with the Technology Manager.
- Maintain a clear, prioritised backlog of Epics and Stories for the teams.
- Ensure all work is clearly linked to higher-level product outcomes.
- Work with engineers and technical leads to refine acceptance criteria, scope, and delivery expectations.
Support Delivery Across Sprints and Planning Increments
- Actively support sprint planning, reviews, demos, providing visual outputs that demonstrate progress against the plan, findings, 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.
- Work to align PI Objectives and the team backlog, either inspiring change into the PI objectives, where they can’t be achieved, or ensuring the team backlog reflects the what and the why clearly to ensure the right work is scoped.
Coordinate Across Teams
- Work closely with Technology Owners, Technology Managers, engineering teams, and Technical Leads to handle dependencies and alignment.
- Coordinate feature planning with teams working across ML frameworks, runtime systems, performance tooling, distributed execution, and infrastructure.
- Facilitate communication between teams to identify risks, blockers, and changing priorities.
Enable Effective Technical Collaboration
- Develop sufficient technical understanding of the different software stacks and products to engage effectively with engineers and stakeholders.
- Support constructive technical discussions while balancing delivery priorities and quality expectations.
- Help remove organisational blockers and improve coordination across teams and stakeholders.
What we're looking for
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.
- Confidence working with technical teams, complex systems and especially cross-team dependencies.
- Strong backlog management and refinement skills.
- Shown experience in developing product vision and roadmaps
- Ability to understand and discuss technical concepts related to software development, testing, or infrastructure.
- 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
- Experience working with infrastructure platforms and services.
- Awareness working with Kubernetes (preferably on AWS).
- Experience providing CI systems (preferably GitHub Actions).
- Experience supporting internally hosted services (databases, APIs, web applications).
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)
- Experience with Atlassian Tool Suite.
While we have outlined a set of requirements, we value transferable skills and diverse experiences. If you meet most of our essential criteria, we encourage you to submit an application and highlight how your background makes you a strong candidate.
Benefits
- Flexible working: Balance your work and personal life with greater flexibility
- Generous leave: Take time to rest, recharge and enjoy life outside of work
- Retirement planning support: Up to 5% matched pension
- Phantom equity: Share in Graphcore’s success
- Workplace experience: Enjoy thoughtfully designed office spaces for collaboration, with free food and an on-site barista to support your day
- Peace of mind protection: Income protection and life assurance to provide financial security for you and your loved ones
- Flexible benefits: Tailor your benefits package with a choice of additional options, including private medical insurance and dental cover
- Optional benefits: Dental cover, health cash plan, private medical insurance, cycle to work scheme, give as you earn
We welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work.
We’re an equal opportunity employer and recognise that everyone brings different strengths and perspectives. If you need any adjustments during the interview process, just let us know - we’re happy to support you.
Sponsorship
Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support visa applications for this role.
Join the Team at Graphcore
Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.
As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.
Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore brings together deep expertise to solve complex problems and deliver meaningful progress in AI compute.
If you want to bring clarity, ownership and momentum to the infrastructure behind Graphcore software, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to be part of the journey.