Senior Technical Program Manager

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Graphcore</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Job Summary&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As a Senior Technical Project Manager focussed on Platform you will play a key role in bridging the technical and management domains of&nbsp;teams responsible for the planning and delivery of solutions for workload management, systems management &amp; observability, integrated hardware/software quality assurance and cloud development.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You will collaborate with highly technical engineering leads, and multi-functional teams across systems, software, operations, and product to support the flawless delivery of our fully integrated hardware and software AI systems.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Responsibilities and Duties<br><br></strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Serve as the primary liaison for the technical teams in multi-functional discussions, ensuring alignment on project requirements.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Support the planning, development and management of project schedules and deliverables to achieve programme objectives on schedule.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ensure each team’s programme deliverables satisfy requirements and are fulfilled by the engineering work.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Monitor and track dependencies both within Platform and with other programme teams, communicating any near-term inputs for the individual team backlogs.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Represent Platform in programme management syncs and reviews. Efficiently aid teams’ navigation of scope changes to minimize impacts on project timelines and outcomes.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Work with Release Management and Engineering teams to minimise time-to-delivery and remove blockers for developing at scale.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">High-level technical understanding of the software, QA, cloud development solutions so that you can contribute meaningfully to priority discussions.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Proactively identify risks and dependencies, support the teams’ development of mitigation strategies, and inform/escalate issues.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Provide regular updates on program status, highlighting challenges and proposing solutions to internal partners, facilitating informed decision-making.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Facilitate process for internal compute resource allocations among engineering teams.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Continually improve processes, optimize workflow, and maintain the highest quality levels.</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Skills and Experience</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Essential:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience of working in programs with a strong software and hardware mix.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Track record of working with Agile project development practices.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Excellent communicator, translating complex situations into plain narrative.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Outstanding facilitator to help resolve complex issues.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Great organiser of people, processes, and product plans.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience working with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)&nbsp;to represent complex work hierarchies and dependencies.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">An ability to work independently without daily oversight in projects that can rapidly evolve and change.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A demonstrable understanding and application of knowledge and skills managing dependencies, priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A proven track record of delivering technical output, perhaps as an individual contributor, manager or project manager, especially in software development.</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Desirable:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience including at least 3 years in a technical program management role, ideally within multi-functional teams.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Understanding of AI or HPC systems&nbsp;and how each component interacts with the system.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Knowledge of data centre design, infrastructure provisioning and management.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience working with satellite teams.</span></li> </ul> <p><br><br></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Benefits</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Sponsorship</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p>