Graphcore - Technical Product Manager

• Product strategy and vision: • Define and own the strategy for the Software area you represent, aligning it with the wider business and product strategy. • Act as the voice of the customer(s)/stakeholder(s) for the area you represent, balancing business priorities, and technical constraints. • Communicate product strategy clearly to engineering teams, stakeholders, and leadership. • Feature planning and backlog ownership: • Own the feature backlog for the Software area you represent, ensuring features are well-defined, prioritised, and aligned to outcomes. • Build and evolve the backlog to clearly reflect product strategy and direction. • Drive creation and maintenance of the long-term planning views, taking the backlog data to show projected dates and resource needs. • Collaborate with Product Owners to refine and break down features into component-level work. • Ensure clear traceability from product goals → features → team backlogs. • Make trade-off decisions on scope, sequencing, and priorities. • Program Increment (PI) planning and coordination: • Coordinate PI planning preparation and ceremonies, working with Product Owners, Programme Management, and Agile leadership. • Ensure features are sufficiently refined and ready ahead of planning events. • Align priorities and scope across component teams to enable effective planning. • Support the definition of clear objectives and outcomes for each planning increment. • Cross-team coordination and alignment: • Coordinate multiple Product Owners to ensure alignment across component teams. • Work closely with Engineering, Architecture, and Programme roles to manage dependencies and sequencing. • Ensure product delivery remains coherent across teams contributing to the same features. • Stakeholder engagement: • Act as the primary interface between business stakeholders and engineering. • Communicate roadmap progress, risks, and changes to stakeholders and customers. • Feedback and continuous improvement: • Gather feedback from teams on feasibility, risks, and delivery challenges. • Use insights from delivery (metrics, demos, retrospectives) to refine roadmap and priorities. • Continuously improve product planning and backlog practices across teams. • Candidate Profile • Candidate Profile • Essential: • Product leadership and ownership: • Proven experience owning product vision and roadmap in a complex software environment. • Strong ability to make prioritisation and trade-off decisions with incomplete information. • Comfortable being both accountable and hands-on in shaping product direction. • Collaboration and influence: • Experience working across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders. • Ability to align teams without direct authority. • Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. • Delivery and planning understanding: • Solid understanding of agile development practices, including backlog management, sprint planning, and PI planning. • Experience coordinating planning at scale across multiple teams. • Ability to connect long-term strategy with short-term delivery realities. • Customer and value focus: • Strong communicator with the ability to translate needs into actionable product direction. • Focus on outcomes over output, with an understanding of how to measure value delivery. • Technical awareness: • Comfortable working with engineering teams and understanding technical trade-offs. • Ability to engage in discussions on architecture, feasibility, and implementation constraints. • Desirable: • Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline. • Certified Product Owner / Product Manager (e.g. Scrum.org PSPO, Pragmatic Institute, SAFe POPM) • Experience working in hardware/software integrated environments. • Familiarity with high-performance computing, AI/ML systems, or similar domains.