Executive Director, Forward Deployed AI Specialist

About this role:

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.

As a Forward Deployed AI Specialist, you will 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. You will work at the intersection of business, technology, data, and risk — building solutions that are innovative, practical, and deployable within a highly regulated environment.
Successful candidates are equally comfortable engaging with senior business leaders, working hands-on with modern AI technologies, and partnering with technology teams to transition solutions from prototype to production.

In this role, you will:

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• 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

• Experience translating business needs into technical solutions

• 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. Information will be shared about expectations