Senior Lead Strategy & Planning Consultant

About this role:

Wells Fargo’s Consumer Banking & Lending (CBL) is seeking a Senior Lead Strategy and Planning Consultant to join its Digital Strategy team. This senior individual contributor will shape strategy across a portfolio of highly complex digital priorities and advise senior leadership on product direction, investment choices, and long-term plans. The role partners across product, design, technology, data, risk, and business teams to translate enterprise opportunities into clear strategies, requirements, and scalable solutions that deliver measurable business and customer outcomes.

This role is ideal for an expert strategy leader who can independently address ambiguous, enterprise-level challenges, apply advanced analytical and inductive thinking, and influence decisions across multiple areas. The Senior Lead will provide vision, direction, and expertise to senior leaders while coordinating complex work and guiding professionals across the organization.

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In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to senior leadership to develop and influence digital, data and AI products, initiatives, plans, specifications, resources, and long-term goals for highly complex business and technical needs across the Digital environment

• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple functional areas or the enterprise

• Develop long-term, large-scale solutions that require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical thinking, and sound judgment

• Shape priorities by synthesizing customer insights, market trends, business performance, data, and platform considerations into clear strategies and requirements

• Provide vision, direction, and expertise to senior leadership on significant business plans, programs, and initiatives with broad organizational impact

• Strategically engage and build alignment with professionals and managers across product, design, engineering, data, analytics, operations, risk, and control functions

• Coordinate highly complex cross-functional activities, clarify decision points, and provide guidance to others to accelerate execution and resolve obstacles

• Create and deliver executive-ready recommendations, decision materials, roadmaps, and success measures for senior leadership, often under tight timelines and with evolving inputs

• Serve as an expert advisor and visible thought leader, helping strengthen digital product management practices and influence enterprise priorities without direct people-management accountability

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Strategy and Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Top tier consulting experience

• Deep experience developing digital strategy and requirements for large-scale platforms, products, or portfolios with significant business and customer impact

• Expert strategic, analytical, and structured thinking skills, with the ability to frame ambiguous problems, evaluate complex tradeoffs, and develop long-term solutions

• Demonstrated ability to advise senior leadership, influence enterprise decisions, and build alignment across multiple functions without relying on direct authority

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex business and technical topics into clear, executive-ready recommendations

• Experience leading highly complex, cross-organizational initiatives involving product, design, engineering, data, analytics, operations, risk, and control partners

• Ability to coordinate complex activities and provide direction, coaching, and subject-matter guidance to professionals and managers

• Experience in financial services, banking, or another highly regulated industry

• Experience using customer insights, performance data, market trends, and emerging capabilities, including AI or advanced analytics, to inform digital product strategy

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

Posting Location(s):

• 401 S Tryon St. – Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
• 333 Market St. - San Francisco, California 94105
• 401 Las Colinas Blvd. Bldg B – Irving, Texas, 75039

Required locations listed.

Pay Range

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities. $159,000.00 - $305,000.00

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:

4 Nov 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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Drug and Alcohol Policy

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