Executive Director, Forward Deployed AI Specialist

About the role

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Wells Fargo is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed AI Specialist to help shape the future of AI-powered work across Commercial Banking and Corporate & Investment Banking. This is a hands-on individual contributor opportunity to combine deep technical AI expertise with the ability to partner directly with business stakeholders to solve complex, high-value problems.

Responsibilities

• Embed with business, product, and operational teams to understand real-world workflows, identify opportunities for agentic AI, and rapidly design and prototype solutions that deliver measurable value.
• Work at the intersection of business, technology, data, and risk - building solutions that are innovative, practical, and deployable within a highly regulated environment.
• Partner directly with business, product, and operational teams to understand workflows, pain points, controls, and opportunities for transformation.
• Design, develop, and prototype agentic AI solutions that improve productivity, decision-making, and operational effectiveness.
• Translate business requirements into technical designs, workflows, and proof-of-concept solutions.
• Leverage modern AI techniques including large language models (LLMs), agentic systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool use, orchestration frameworks, and evaluation methodologies.
• Collaborate closely with Technology teams to industrialize and deploy solutions into production.
• Work with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Privacy, Information Security, and other control partners to ensure solutions are explainable, auditable, and aligned with governance standards.
• Contribute reusable patterns, capabilities, tools, evaluations, and reference architectures that can be leveraged across multiple business domains.
• Stay current on emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and best practices while helping raise AI fluency across the organization.
• Drive solutions from concept through implementation with a strong focus on measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Artificial Intelligence Solutions experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Desired Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software development, AI/ML, data science, solution architecture, or a related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience building and deploying AI-powered solutions.
• Strong understanding of modern AI technologies, including: Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic and multi-agent architectures, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Tool and workflow orchestration, Prompt engineering and evaluation frameworks, Knowledge retrieval and context management.
• Ability to rapidly prototype while maintaining a production-oriented mindset.
• Experience operating within regulated, risk-managed, or control-intensive environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage effectively across business, technology, and control functions.
• Experience within commercial banking, corporate banking, capital markets, lending, client onboarding, financial crimes, deal execution, sales/origination, trading, or related financial services domains.
• Experience building AI solutions within enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of model governance, AI risk management, responsible AI, privacy, and information security practices.
• Experience with cloud-based AI platforms, enterprise data ecosystems, and production AI deployment patterns.
• Proven ability to operate in highly collaborative, cross-functional environments.
• Experience delivering AI capabilities that have achieved measurable business impact.

Job Expectations

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
• Specific compliance policies may apply regarding outside activities or personal investing; affected employees will be expected to provide information to the Wells Fargo Personal Account Dealing Team and abide by applicable policy requirements if hired.
• 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.

Pay Range

$185,000.00 - $300,000.00 USD Annual

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

Posting End Date

23 Jul 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.

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