Technology Director - Gen AI Product Lead

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Technology Director - GEN AI Product Lead

In this role, you will:

• Manage a team of engineering managers and engineering leads
• Focus on delivering commitments aligned to enterprise strategic priorities
• Build support for strategies with business and technology leaders
• Guide development of actionable roadmaps and plans
• Identify opportunities and strategies for continuous improvement of software engineering practices
• Provide oversight to software craftsmanship, security, availability, resilience, and scalability of solutions developed by the teams or third-party providers
• Identify financial management and strategic resourcing
• Set risk management guidelines and partner with stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives
• Develop strategies for hiring engineering talent
• Lead implementation of projects and encourage engineering innovation
• Collaborate and influence all levels of professionals including more experienced managers
• Lead team to achieve objectives
• Interface with external agencies, regulatory bodies or industry forums
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Technology Strategic Leadership
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

Core Tech Expertise

• Good understanding of GenAI technologies (LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, vector databases, model fine‑tuning, evaluation frameworks).
• Experience leading enterprise AI product roadmaps, preferably in large-scale or regulated environments.
• Ability to evaluate and select AI models, frameworks, and vendors based on cost, capability, risk, and long-term strategy.

Product Leadership

• Ability to translate business outcomes into AI‑driven product strategies and ROI models.
• Experience prioritizing features using data-driven decision-making and measurable KPIs.
• Strong stakeholder management across tech, business, risk, legal, and operations.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Experience leading cross-functional teams: principal engineers, SMEs, product owners
• Ability to mentor teams on AI adoption and agile delivery.
• Executive communication skills, including presenting strategy to senior leadership.

Job Expectations:

• A high level of curiosity and outside-in perspective on the fast evolving AI Agentic and Model ecosystem 
• Come up with the product roadmap and Go-to Market strategy for the GenAI Platform features
• Drive delivery through engineering leadership teams, ensuring secure, scalable, high‑quality solutions.
• Partner with senior business, risk, and tech stakeholders to enable responsible AI adoption.
• Strong presentation skills and prior experience presenting to Senior Leadership

Posting End Date: 

16 Apr 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

 

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.

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