AI Engineering Chief of Staff - Strategy and Execution

Lenovo; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo is seeking a Chief of Staff, AI Engineering to partner with the Executive Director of AI Engineering and drive strategy, execution, and operational excellence across the Qira AI organization. Location: US Remote, Chicago, IL preferred.

This highly strategic leadership role focuses on coordinating cross‑functional programs spanning Personal AI, Enterprise AI, user world model, AI research, and the Qira AI Platform, with a strong emphasis on governance and scalable operating models.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Global teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Master’s degree or MBA

Tools

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Linear

Monday

Azure

Jira

Job description

Lenovo is seeking a Chief of Staff, AI Engineering to partner with the Executive Director of AI Engineering and drive strategy, execution, and operational excellence across the Qira AI organization. Location: US Remote, Chicago, IL preferred.

This highly strategic leadership role focuses on coordinating cross‑functional programs spanning Personal AI, Enterprise AI, user world model, AI research, and the Qira AI Platform, with a strong emphasis on governance and scalable operating models.