No. Explain the duties and authority actually exercised during the relevant employment period. The title alone does not establish primarily managerial or executive work.
Use the real allocation of responsibility
Identify work the applicant retained, decisions delegated to others and operational tasks still personally performed. Avoid assuming a temporary title establishes a full qualifying year in every case. For an ordinary L-1A petition the foreign year may instead be specialized knowledge, provided the U.S. role is primarily managerial or executive. New-office L-1A specifically requires managerial or executive foreign employment.
The regulation defines managerial capacity in two ways: managing the organization or a department and supervising professional, supervisory or managerial staff with hiring authority, or managing an essential function at a senior level with discretion over its daily operations. The L-1 regulation limits an executive or manager to a total of seven years in the United States in L status, and it provides that time spent in H classification counts toward the same limit. The transferee must have completed one continuous year of qualifying employment abroad with a related entity within the three years preceding the transfer, and a qualifying parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate relationship must exist between that entity and the United States employer.