Chief Of Staff, Hybrid Cloud & AI Solutions

LenovoMorrisville, North CarolinaOn-siteFull-timePrincipal, 12–15+ yearsListed 3 hours ago

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About this role

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The Chief of Staff is a strategic partner, business builder, and force multiplier to the VP & GM - Hybrid Cloud & AI Solutions within Lenovo's Solutions and Services Group (SSG) . Working across Offering, Sales, Presales/FDE, Engineering, Delivery, Finance, HR, and enterprise teams, this leader connects customer opportunity, business strategy, and execution. This is not an administrative or traditional PMO role.

Key Responsibilities:

Accelerate Strategy and Growth:

- Translate strategy into focused priorities, investment choices, clear decisions, and measurable commercial outcomes.
- Pressure-test opportunities for customer value, economics, feasibility, differentiation, and scalability.
- Help move emerging AI and cloud capabilities from proof of value to deployment, commercialization, and repeatable growth.

Build an Operating Model That Scales:
- Connect Offering, Sales, Presales/FDE, Engineering, and Delivery; clarify ownership, decision rights, handoffs, and dependencies.
- Simplify foundational operations while enabling Frontier experimentation, customer co-creation, and new business building.
- Balance hypergrowth with functional excellence, delivery readiness, and disciplined execution.

Drive Decisions and Follow-Through:

- Run a lean, decision-oriented business rhythm with clear KPIs, milestones, risks, owners, and commitments.
- Turn complex information into concise recommendations and actionable trade-offs; act with sound judgment even when data is incomplete.
- Anticipate obstacles, remove friction, and drive strategic commitments to closure.

Lead and Influence:

- Own a focused portfolio of high-impact, confidential, or ambiguous initiatives on behalf of the VP.
- Advise the VP candidly, build trust quickly, and align leaders across functions and geographies without relying on positional authority.

Measures of Success:

- Faster decisions and stronger follow-through on the highest-value priorities.
- More customer opportunities and proofs converted into scalable, commercially viable solutions.
- Clearer ownership, simpler operations, and improved cross-functional execution.
- Sustained functional excellence while the business grows at speed.

Basic Qualifications:

- 10+ years in strategy, business operations, transformation, consulting, general management, offerings, or business building.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proven success leading complex cross-functional initiatives; strong commercial, financial, executive communication, and influencing skills.
- Experience in AI, cloud, enterprise technology, or services preferred; proven intrapreneurial business/capability building strongly preferred (entrepreneurial experience also valued).

Leadership Attributes for Success:

- Strategic acumen with operational rigor; a business-owner mindset.
- Exceptional prioritization and follow-through; thrives in ambiguity and navigates chaos to get the job done.
- Builds trust fast; data-driven but not limited by incomplete information.
- Loves a challenge; proven intrapreneur (ideally) or entrepreneur.
- Drives hypergrowth and functional excellence together.

Role Boundaries:

Functional leaders remain accountable for their results. The Chief of Staff owns integration, decision quality, operating cadence, strategic follow-through, and selected critical initiatives—not routine executive administration or a shadow PMO.

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.

PAY TRANSPARENCY
The anticipated annual compensation range for this position is 161,600–247,710 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 (https://www.lenovobenefits.com/)
In compliance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (EPEWA), the expected application deadline for this position is 01-15-2027. This requirement applies to both internal and external candidates.