About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking for a Business Execution Senior Manager – Executive Director role. As the AI Lead of Innovation for India CIB, you will lead a high-performing team aligned with the Global CIB Innovation group. This role requires strategic leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to deliver transformative AI-driven solutions across the organization.

In this role, you will:

Manage and develop a team of Business Execution Consultants while ensuring successful planning, integration, impasse resolution, and measurement of operations with moderate to high complexity and visibility
Engage functional leaders to obtain resources, influence outcomes, address conflict, and ensure alignment with Wells Fargo's policies and business line objectives
Identify potential risks when implementing change along with developing mitigation strategies and plans
Recommend opportunities for Business Execution process improvement
Determine appropriate strategies and actions of multiple business groups to meet moderate to high complex deliverables
Interpret procedures and processes, and provide leadership to strategize and execute a variety of programs, services, and initiatives that are significant in scope, complexity, and risk
Collaborate with and influence functional business partners, leaders, and executive management to provide support and drive strategic initiatives for the business
Manage allocation of people and financial resources for Business Execution
Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy
Lead the India CIB Innovation team and drive alignment with global innovation initiatives.
Build and manage a team, collaborating closely with Technology, Product Managers, and Business to design and implement solutions across CIB.
Deliver AI projects that align with business objectives
Will lead and guide the team in integrating AI solutions across key business journeys—Client, Vendor, Market, and Lending
Act as a hands-on subject matter expert, architecting scalable solutions and promoting data excellence.
Define and implement program-level processes, procedures, and performance metrics.
Ensure compliance with policies and methodologies while driving new initiatives and deliverables.
Manage risk exposure and create operational efficiencies for assigned initiatives.
Conduct strategic reviews and performance assessments, providing creative solutions to complex challenges.
Establish best practices for AI/ML and oversee the AI lifecycle.
Collaborate with executive leadership and stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables.

Required Qualifications:

6+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
3+ years Management or leadership experience.
Experience in strategic leadership, transformation, business execution, and AI solution development and implementation, demonstrated through work experience.
Deep knowledge of Corporate & Investment Banking with exposure to products and asset classes.
Proven experience in AI/GenAI from ideation to solution development to implementation in CIB, with strong understanding of business use cases.
Experience in prompt engineering initiatives to standardize and scale AI-driven processes across the organization.
Up-to-date knowledge of AI/ML technologies, libraries, and tools. Demonstrates advance proficiency in leveraging Langchain, Langgraph, and Model Context Protocol to architect scalable, context-aware AI solutions.
Substantial experience in the development and implementation of agentic AI solutions, contributing to the automation and enhancement of complex business operations.
Possesses practical experience with Document Intelligence and Agent space platforms to extract insights and enable intelligent automation.
Has had demonstrable experience in applying chunking, data vectorization, hallucination mitigation and retrieval-augmented generation techniques within language model workflows.
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
Proven ability to execute transformation projects and deliver initiatives to completion.
Demonstrated success in leadership roles, including team building and management.
Make decisions in complex, multifaceted situations and demonstrate ownership of end-to-end project management.

Desired Qualifications:

Mentor and guide less experienced Strategy and Execution staff.
Manage resource allocation (people and financial) for Business Execution.
Foster a culture of talent development aligned with business objectives.
3+years of experience with modern databases, cloud environments, and data ecosystems.
Ability to define and lead large-scale projects with multiple stakeholders.
Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills with attention to detail.
Ability to work effectively across complex organizational structures, fostering collaboration and adaptability.
Skilled in defining target states and developing actionable roadmaps.

Posting End Date:

9 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.

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