Chief of Staff, AI Engineering - REMOTE

Lenovo•Morrisville, NC

3d•$160,600 - $246,215•Remote

About The Position

Lenovo is seeking an exceptional Chief of Staff, AI Engineering to partner directly with the Executive Director of AI Engineering. This role is responsible for driving strategy, execution, and operational excellence across Lenovo’s global Qira AI organization. The Chief of Staff will serve as the operational leader, helping drive execution across critical initiatives including Personal AI, Enterprise AI, User World Model, AI Research, and the Qira AI Platform. This individual will collaborate with engineering, product, design, research, legal, security, and executive leadership to ensure alignment, remove organizational obstacles, and accelerate delivery. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex organizational challenges, building scalable operating models, and leading large cross-functional engineering programs.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

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.