Technology Strategy Senior Manager

The Enterprise AI Technology Strategy team enables Lenovo to make better technology investment decisions by identifying emerging opportunities, generating strategic options, evaluating trade-offs, aligning stakeholders, and translating technology insight into business impact. As part of the CTO Organization, this team helps determine where Lenovo should play, how it can win, and where it should invest, partner, or accelerate across AI and emerging technologies.

This position is working in the heart of the most significant technology strategy planning and development group in the CTO Organization. We are recruiting people with passion about technologies that thrive in an environment where curiosity and entrepreneurship is encouraged.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead enterprise-level assessments of emerging AI technologies, ecosystem developments, industry shifts, and competitive dynamics to identify strategic opportunities and risks.
• Develop technology outlooks, strategic perspectives, investment theses, future scenarios, and recommendations that shape Lenovo’s long-term AI and technology strategy.
• Lead the evaluation of AI platforms, agentic AI frameworks, enterprise AI architectures, and emerging technology ecosystems to determine strategic implications and investment priorities.
• Apply strategic frameworks to evaluate alternatives, assess trade-offs, and recommend where Lenovo should invest, partner, accelerate, differentiate, or intentionally not compete.
• Shape innovation priorities and strategic direction across R&D organizations.
• Drive enterprise alignment across CTO Organization, Business Units, Research leadership, and executive stakeholders around shared technology priorities and strategic outcomes.
• Translate complex technology trends into clear decision frameworks and executive recommendations.
• Lead cross-functional strategic initiatives that align technology investments with long-term business objectives.
• Facilitate executive discussions, strategic planning activities, decision forums, and stakeholder alignment efforts.
• Support strategic execution by connecting technology strategy to planning, governance, investment, and operational processes.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to CTO leadership and other senior leaders on AI and emerging technology strategy.
• Mentor team members and help elevate strategic thinking and analytical rigor across the organization., PAY TRANSPARENCY The anticipated annual compensation range for this position is 160,600-246,215 USD. Final compensation will be based on relevant experience, skills, and business considerations. Individuals may also be considered for bonuses and/or commissions. Lenovo’s various benefits can be found at www.lenovobenefits.com In compliance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEWA), the expected application deadline for this position is . This requirement applies to both internal and external candidates. Go back

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Technology Management, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in technology strategy, corporate strategy, innovation, management consulting, enterprise architecture, product strategy, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale technology strategy initiatives and influencing senior leadership decisions.
• Experience developing strategic recommendations, investment theses, business cases, and executive-level communications.
• Experience engaging with cross-functional stakeholders across technology, research, product, engineering, and business organizations.
• Proven record of translating emerging technology trends into strategic business decisions and organizational action.
• Understanding of enterprise AI concepts including foundation models, agentic AI, RAG, model evaluation, orchestration, AI governance, and enterprise AI platforms., * Master’s degree in a related discipline, including MBA.
• Experience working within large global technology organizations.
• Hands-on experience building, deploying, or evaluating enterprise AI and agentic AI solutions.
• Experience leading strategic planning, portfolio management, investment governance, or corporate development initiatives.
• Experience facilitating executive workshops, planning sessions, and decision-making forums.
• Background in top-tier strategy consulting, corporate strategy, or senior product strategy roles.

Why Work at Lenovo

We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers. Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #153 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY). This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.