Manager, AI Enterprise Engineering - APAC

Lenovo; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo is seeking a senior leader to guide the APAC AI Enterprise Engineering team for Qira for Enterprise. You will manage and scale engineers across Asia-Pacific, while contributing to design and delivery of enterprise features.

You will align priorities with global leads, mentor staff, and ensure on-time delivery across time zones. You bring 12+ years in distributed systems, 5+ years in people leadership, and a strong backend/cloud foundation to influence technical decisions and drive

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing and leading software engineering teams to deliver cross-functional initiatives.
• 12+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, platforms, or real-time products.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the APAC engineering team across the Asia-Pacific region, hiring and scaling individual contributors to deliver Qira for Enterprise.
• Own people management for the region: hiring, onboarding, performance, career development, retention, and day-to-day staffing.
• Run regional delivery: plan and execute sprints, safeguard quality, and deliver enterprise features on time across time zones with the US team.
• Contribute hands-on to technical design, architecture, and development alongside the team, while leading others.
• Manage engineers across multiple locations in Asia-Pacific, providing both people management and technical direction.
• Coordinate with US-based leads on roadmap, dependencies, and cross-site handoffs.

Skills

People management

Technical leadership

Cross-time-zone collaboration

Leadership communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub

Cursor

Linear

Job description

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Description And Requirements

About Our Team

We are building Qira, Lenovo’s next-generation cross-device Personal AI platform that delivers intelligent, context-aware experiences across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and the cloud. Our AI Enterprise Engineering team is extending Qira into an enterprise-ready platform adopted by business customers at scale.

About The Role

The Manager, AI Enterprise Engineering, APAC leads Lenovo’s Asia-Pacific engineering team for Qira for Enterprise, spanning the Asia-Pacific region. This is both a people-management and a functional-leadership role: you build, staff, and scale the regional team, direct much of its technical work, own its delivery and quality, and provide follow-the-sun coverage in partnership with the global team.

You are the solid-line people manager for engineers based across the Asia-Pacific region, and in most cases you also serve as their functional lead, directing their day-to-day technical work. In some cases, an engineer may instead take functional direction on a dotted line from another global manager who owns that workstream; where that happens, you remain their solid-line people manager, owning hiring, performance, delivery, and career growth. Your job is to turn all of this into shipped work through a strong, well-run APAC team.

What You’ll Do

• Build and lead the APAC engineering team across the Asia-Pacific region, hiring and scaling individual contributors to deliver Qira for Enterprise.
• Own people management for the region: hiring, onboarding, performance, career development, retention, and day-to-day staffing.
• Run regional delivery: plan and execute sprints, safeguard quality, and deliver enterprise features on time across time zones with the US team.
• Contribute hands‑on to technical design, architecture, and development alongside the team; this is a hands‑on role as much as a leadership role, and the expectation is that you can build what you are directing others to build.
• Manage engineers across multiple locations in Asia‑Pacific, providing both people management and functional/technical direction for the team. In some cases an engineer may take functional direction from another global manager on a dotted line, while you retain people management, owning their hiring, performance, delivery, and career growth.
• Partner with the functional leads to align priorities, resolve competing demands, and keep APAC engineers effectively directed, unblocked, and delivering.
• Manage systems‑integrator and contractor relationships where used to scale offshore capacity, including delivery quality and conversion to full‑time staff over time.
• Coordinate closely with US‑based leads and the Director on roadmap, dependencies, and clean cross‑site handoffs.
• Establish regional engineering practices, tooling adoption, and adherence to enterprise security and compliance standards consistent with the broader organization.
• Represent APAC delivery status, risks, and staffing needs to leadership.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing and leading software engineering teams to deliver cross-functional initiatives.
• 12+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, platforms, or real-time products.
• Experience building and scaling software engineering teams in the Asia-Pacific region.
• Track record delivering enterprise software in a distributed, multi-time-zone environment.
• A strong technical foundation (backend and cloud) sufficient to guide the team and engage credibly in technical discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as a hands‑on technical leader who can contribute to production code.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing and leading software engineering teams to deliver cross-functional initiatives.
• 15+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, platforms, or real-time products, ideally including 5 years building AI products.
• Experience managing teams across multiple Asia-Pacific locations, and/or managing systems‑integrator or contractor teams.
• Experience delivering enterprise identity and authentication, cloud deployment (BYOC), or AI/LLM-based applications.
• Experience operating in a matrixed organization where functional leads set priorities and a regional manager owns people and delivery.
• Familiarity with the team’s toolchain (GitHub, Cursor, Linear) and AI-assisted development workflows.
• Master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.