Senior Lead Strategy & Planning Consultant

Wells Fargo•Irving, TX

7d•$159,000 - $305,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo’s Consumer Banking & Lending is seeking a Senior Lead Strategy and Planning Consultant for its Digital Strategy team. This senior individual-contributor role shapes strategy across highly complex digital priorities and advises senior leadership on product direction, investment choices, and long-term plans. The consultant partners with product, design, technology, data, risk, and business teams to translate enterprise opportunities into strategies, requirements, and scalable solutions that deliver measurable business and customer outcomes. The role addresses ambiguous, enterprise-level challenges through advanced analytical and inductive thinking, and influences decisions across multiple areas. It provides vision, direction, and expertise to senior leaders, coordinates complex work, and guides professionals across the organization. The role is not accountable for direct people management. The position offers a hybrid work schedule and may require travel up to 10% of the time. It is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Posting locations are Charlotte, North Carolina; San Francisco, California; and Irving, Texas. The posted base pay range is $159,000 to $305,000, with possible incentive opportunities. The posting end date is November 4, 2026.

Requirements

At least 7 years of Strategy and Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

Nice To Haves

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, including framing ambiguous problems, evaluating complex tradeoffs, and developing long-term solutions.
Demonstrated ability to advise senior leadership, influence enterprise decisions, and build alignment across functions without relying on direct authority.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including translating 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.

Responsibilities

Advise senior leadership on the development and direction of digital, data, and AI products, initiatives, plans, specifications, resources, and long-term goals for complex business and technical needs.
Lead strategy and resolution of highly complex challenges requiring evaluation across multiple functional areas or the enterprise.
Develop long-term, large-scale solutions using vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical thinking, and sound judgment.
Synthesize customer insights, market trends, business performance, data, and platform considerations to shape priorities, strategies, and requirements.
Provide vision, direction, and expertise to senior leadership on significant business plans, programs, and initiatives with broad organizational impact.
Engage professionals and managers across product, design, engineering, data, analytics, operations, risk, and control functions to build alignment.
Coordinate complex cross-functional activities, clarify decision points, and guide others to accelerate execution and resolve obstacles.
Create and deliver executive-ready recommendations, decision materials, roadmaps, and success measures for senior leadership.
Serve as an expert advisor and visible thought leader, strengthening digital product management practices and influencing enterprise priorities without direct people-management accountability.
Fulfill applicable risk and compliance obligations, follow relevant policies and procedures, escalate and remediate issues, and make sound risk decisions.