B Smart Glassess Leader

Role overview

B Smart Glassess Leader at Lenskart

WHY THIS ROLE, WHY NOW

Responsibilities

• Lead full-stack engineering — hardware through cloud
• Drive engineering velocity without sacrificing quality or reliability at scale.
• Design AI experiences that work across Indic languages and low-latency rural networks.
• Manage strategic technology partnerships
• Track record shipping AI/ML features at consumer scale — millions of DAUs.

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru

Application details

• Own recruitment and org design for a 50–100+ person engineering organisation.

About the employer

• ABOUT B BY LENSKART B by Lenskart is India's first full-stack AI smartglass — designed, engineered, and assembled in India.
• Create the network-effect moat that makes B by Lenskart the platform, not just a product.
• Draw on Lenskart's investments in XR and AI startups (Ajna Lens and others) to accelerate in-house capability.
• 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.

Additional role details

• 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.
• 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.
• Manage multidisciplinary teams across embedded systems, on-device AI, mobile engineering, and backend data platform.
• 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.
• Drive AI-native product experiences
• Own feature areas: real-time translation, UPI payments, health and food logging, personalised recommendations, vision-based object recognition.
• Collaborate closely with Google on Gemini Live roadmap for wearables.
• Be the technical counterpart in partnerships with Google, Qualcomm, and Sony.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.