[Remote] Chief of Staff, AI Engineering - REMOTE

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lenovo is building the Qira next-generation AI platform to deliver intelligent, personalized, and secure experiences across its global ecosystem. The Chief of Staff, AI Engineering will serve as the operational leader for the Qira AI Engineering organization, driving strategic execution, cross-functional alignment, engineering governance, and operational excellence across global AI initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with the Executive Director of AI Engineering to execute the strategic vision and priorities for Lenovo’s global Qira AI organization
• Lead execution of complex engineering initiatives across AI research, platform engineering, product development, infrastructure, and commercialization
• Drive cross functional alignment across engineering, product management, design, research, security, legal, privacy, business, and executive leadership
• Establish and continuously improve engineering operating mechanisms, including annual planning, quarterly business reviews, roadmap governance, release readiness, executive dashboards, and engineering metrics
• Partner with engineering leaders to improve execution quality, engineering productivity, delivery predictability, and organizational effectiveness
• Lead technical program governance across multiple global engineering teams and ensure successful execution of strategic programs
• Identify execution risks, organizational bottlenecks, and cross team dependencies while driving rapid resolution
• Develop executive presentations, strategic planning documents, engineering communications, and leadership updates for senior executives
• Support organizational planning, budgeting, workforce planning, vendor management, and strategic investment decisions
• Drive adoption of engineering best practices, AI governance, software development processes, and operational excellence
• Represent the AI Engineering organization in executive reviews and cross functional leadership forums
• Build scalable operational processes that enable the organization to grow rapidly while maintaining execution excellence

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 10+ years of experience leading large scale software engineering programs, engineering operations, or technical program management
• Experience supporting senior engineering executives, CTOs, VPs, or Heads of Engineering
• Demonstrated success delivering complex software platforms involving multiple engineering organizations
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, cloud platforms, AI technologies, and large scale product development
• Excellent executive communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities with exceptional attention to detail
• Experience managing globally distributed engineering organizations
• Master's degree or MBA
• Experience delivering AI, machine learning, cloud, enterprise software, or developer platforms
• Experience building operational models for rapidly growing engineering organizations
• Experience with engineering productivity, release management, engineering metrics, and organizational scaling
• Strong familiarity with modern engineering tools including GitHub, GitHub Actions, Linear, Monday, Azure, Jira, and AI powered developer tools
• Experience working within large global technology companies

Benefits

• Individuals may also be considered for bonus and/or commission.
• US Remote

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