VP, 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.

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:

• 5 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:

• 5 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 that have achieved measurable business impact

• Strong understanding of modern AI technologies including:

  • Large Language Models (LLMs)

  • Agentic and multi-agent architectures

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

  • Prompt engineering and evaluation frameworks

• 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

• Experience within commercial banking corporate banking capital markets lending client onboarding financial crimes deal execution sales/origination trading or related financial services domains

• 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

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage effectively across business technology and control functions

• Proven ability to operate in highly collaborative cross-functional environments

Job Expectations:

• This position requires on-site presence at the posted location(s)

• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

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.

Posting End Date:

*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 units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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