Data Product Management Director

Wells Fargo & Company•Minneapolis, MN

1d•$185,000 - $300,000•Hybrid

About The Position

About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a Data Product Management Director for the Consumer Data Products team. The team is responsible for defining and executing the Consumer data product strategy, delivering data products supporting analytics and regulatory needs across Consumer lines of business while driving Cloud migration and modernization. This role will report to the head of Consumer Data Products and lead the Consumer Data Platforms team with end-to-end accountability for strategy, ensuring modernization, and scalable data capabilities across Consumer Banking and Lending data applications. In this role, you will: This leader will set platform strategy and ensure disciplined execution and governance to support Consumer data capabilities, reliability, and long-term scalability. Strategy and Change Management Define Consumer Banking and Lending data strategy, including governance and operating models enabling scalable, reliable, and compliant data platforms Lead Consumer Data Product intake and change management across platforms and products, aligning business, risk, and technology stakeholders to prioritize demand and manage change effectively Identify and drive cross-domain data enablement strategies to meet governance, risk, and regulatory standards while maximizing reuse and scale People and Resource Leadership Demonstrate executive presence by influencing senior leaders, clearly communicating strategy, tradeoffs and outcomes, and representing data initiatives in enterprise forums Lead and coordinate cross-functional, globally distributed teams, to ensure effective delivery, alignment, and operating model maturity Build and sustain a culture of talent development aligned to business strategy and execution priorities Manage people and financial resources to meet commitments and ensure alignment to strategic objectives Product Management Lead data product teams delivering common data platform capabilities (data quality, metadata, testing), driving standardization, automation, and controls to ensure trusted data Define and execute the vision and implementation strategy for platform services, aligned to the broader enterprise data product strategy Make strategic decisions to resolve complex, higher-risk issues, shaping policies and procedures enabling consistent data capabilities across platforms People and Resource Leadership Demonstrate executive presence by influencing senior leaders, clearly communicating strategy, tradeoffs and outcomes, and representing data initiatives in enterprise forums Lead and coordinate cross-functional, globally distributed teams, to ensure effective delivery, alignment, and operating model maturity Build and sustain a culture of talent development aligned to business strategy and execution priorities Manage people and financial resources to meet commitments and ensure alignment to strategic objectives

Requirements

10+ years of data product or data management or 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

Nice To Haves

Builder Mindset: Demonstrated ability to build and scale data platforms, including establishing clear ownership models, operational standards, and governance enabling reliability and reuse
Execution Oriented: Proven track record of translating platform strategy into delivered outcomes to drive modernization, migration, and stabilization initiatives through disciplined execution and cross-functional partnership
Stakeholder Savvy: Comfortable partnering with engineering, product, enterprise, and senior leadership to align priorities, surface tradeoffs, and communicate value clearly across audience
Platform Acumen: Proven experience owning enterprise data platforms with accountability for data quality, metadata, and testing capabilities, including governance, controls, and validation practices that ensure reliable, compliant, and trusted data for analytics and business use
Exceptional leadership with ability to influence including negotiating, persuading others, facilitating meetings, and resolving conflict
Skilled in presenting information and/or ideas to an audience in a way that is engaging and easy to understand
7+ years of experience with leading cloud business transformations
7+ years of experience helping an organization to plan and manage change in effort to meet strategic objectives
Bachelor’s degree, MBA preferred

Responsibilities

Define Consumer Banking and Lending data strategy, including governance and operating models enabling scalable, reliable, and compliant data platforms
Lead Consumer Data Product intake and change management across platforms and products, aligning business, risk, and technology stakeholders to prioritize demand and manage change effectively
Identify and drive cross-domain data enablement strategies to meet governance, risk, and regulatory standards while maximizing reuse and scale
Demonstrate executive presence by influencing senior leaders, clearly communicating strategy, tradeoffs and outcomes, and representing data initiatives in enterprise forums
Lead and coordinate cross-functional, globally distributed teams, to ensure effective delivery, alignment, and operating model maturity
Build and sustain a culture of talent development aligned to business strategy and execution priorities
Manage people and financial resources to meet commitments and ensure alignment to strategic objectives
Lead data product teams delivering common data platform capabilities (data quality, metadata, testing), driving standardization, automation, and controls to ensure trusted data
Define and execute the vision and implementation strategy for platform services, aligned to the broader enterprise data product strategy
Make strategic decisions to resolve complex, higher-risk issues, shaping policies and procedures enabling consistent data capabilities across platforms
Demonstrate executive presence by influencing senior leaders, clearly communicating strategy, tradeoffs and outcomes, and representing data initiatives in enterprise forums
Lead and coordinate cross-functional, globally distributed teams, to ensure effective delivery, alignment, and operating model maturity
Build and sustain a culture of talent development aligned to business strategy and execution priorities
Manage people and financial resources to meet commitments and ensure alignment to strategic objectives