B Smart Glassess Leader

THE MISSION Own the full stack — from Qualcomm AR1 silicon and Sony camera firmware to Gemini AI inference and the consumer app — and ship India's first category-defining AI smartglass platform used by tens of millions. ABOUT B BY LENSKART B by Lenskart is India's first full-stack AI smartglass — designed, engineered, and assembled in India. At just 40 grams (lighter than Meta Ray-Ban), powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 chipset, a Sony camera, and Google Gemini 2.5 Live, it brings real-time AI assistance, UPI payments, live translation, health monitoring, and hands-free computing to everyday life. The global smartglasses market is projected to reach USD 4–5 billion by 2030 at ~30% CAGR. Lenskart — with its omnichannel retail network, vertically integrated supply chain, and consumer data intelligence — is positioned to own India's share of this market. WHAT YOU WILL DO Define and own the 3-year product vision • Set the product roadmap from Gen-1 hardware through a multi-generation platform strategy. • Balance consumer delight, developer extensibility, and manufacturing feasibility. • Represent product and technology strategy at the board level alongside CEO Peyush Bansal. Lead full-stack engineering — hardware through cloud • Manage multidisciplinary teams across embedded systems, on-device AI, mobile engineering, and backend data platform. • Drive engineering velocity without sacrificing quality or reliability at scale. • Own recruitment and org design for a 50–100+ person engineering organisation. Build India's wearable developer ecosystem • Open the platform to third-party developers across food delivery, fitness, and entertainment. • Own API governance, SDK, developer documentation, and partner success programs. • Create the network-effect moat that makes B by Lenskart the platform, not just a product. Drive AI-native product experiences • Own feature areas: real-time translation, UPI payments, health and food logging, personalised recommendations, vision-based object recognition. • Design AI experiences that work across Indic languages and low-latency rural networks. • Collaborate closely with Google on Gemini Live roadmap for wearables. Manage strategic technology partnerships • Be the technical counterpart in partnerships with Google, Qualcomm, and Sony. • Draw on Lenskart's investments in XR and AI startups (Ajna Lens and others) to accelerate in-house capability. • Represent Lenskart at global wearables and AI conferences. WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU Must-have • 12+ years in product or engineering leadership, including at least one hardware-software platform built from 0 to 1. • Hands-on experience with embedded or wearable systems (AR, XR, IoT, or equivalent consumer hardware). • Track record shipping AI/ML features at consumer scale — millions of DAUs. • Experience managing 50+ person cross-functional engineering organisations. • Strong instincts for India-first product design: Indic languages, UPI, low-latency network constraints. Great to have • Prior work with Qualcomm Snapdragon AR chipsets or camera ISP pipelines. • Experience with on-device LLM inference or edge AI deployment. • Building and scaling developer platforms or marketplace ecosystems. • Expertise in health wearables, computer vision, or real-time translation systems. • Background at Meta, Apple, Google, Samsung, or equivalent in XR/spatial computing. WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW • The global smartglasses market is projected to reach USD 4–5 billion by 2030, growing at ~30% CAGR — and Lenskart has the retail density, brand trust, and supply chain to own India's share. • B by Lenskart is the only AI smartglass designed and assembled in India — lighter than Meta Ray-Ban at 40g — with full-stack product ownership and no hardware outsourcing debt. • You report directly to CEO Peyush Bansal and shape strategy at the board level. This is a defining platform role, not a custodian role. • Strategic investments in XR and AI startups (Ajna Lens and others) give you an internal startup portfolio to draw from.