Potentially, but the actual managerial role and support must be demonstrated. Neither a small team nor a large team decides the issue by itself.
Explain who does the underlying work
Identify the essential function, the applicant’s senior authority and the employees or arrangements carrying out operational tasks. Provide examples of management decisions. A claim that the applicant manages a function is incomplete if the evidence primarily shows the applicant personally delivering that function.
A person who directs thirty dock workers and drivers feels unmistakably managerial in ordinary language, yet the definition specifically excludes first-line supervision of employees who are not professionals unless the supervised staff are themselves supervisory. For both people, confirm one continuous year of qualifying employment abroad during the relevant three-year period and a parent, branch, subsidiary, or affiliate relationship, with the foreign organization doing business; for a new-office L-1A petition, that foreign year itself must have been managerial or executive. If the answer is managing schedules, negotiating with distributors, approving quotes, hiring a second crew and reviewing the subsidiary's financial results, the role is managerial and the number of subordinates matters less than the level of authority.