Senior Lead Data Product Management Consultant -- Auto Data & Insights

About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a Sr. Lead Data Product Management Consultant to join our Auto business. This product-focused role will shape and drive the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of enterprise data products that support operational processes, analytics, regulatory reporting, and strategic business initiatives. The individual will partner with business stakeholders to identify needs, define measurable outcomes, translate priorities into executable features and user stories, and guide cross-functional teams from discovery through implementation and adoption. A strong understanding of data engineering, data models, pipelines, and platform capabilities is needed to evaluate feasibility, challenge proposed solutions, manage dependencies, and ensure products are scalable, governed, and fit for purpose; however, the role is accountable for driving the work from the product side rather than performing hands-on engineering development. Success in this role requires a product mindset, strong ownership, and the ability to connect business outcomes with technical delivery. The ideal candidate can establish a clear product vision, manage intake and prioritization, maintain a delivery-ready backlog, and influence business, data engineering, architecture, governance, and control partners. Data engineering experience or fluency is important for understanding source-to-consumption data flows, assessing solution options, anticipating delivery risks, and helping teams make sound product and technical trade-offs. Why Wells Fargo: Are you looking for more? Find it here. At Wells Fargo, we're more than a financial services leader – we’re a global trailblazer committed to driving innovation, empowering communities, and helping our customers succeed. We believe that a meaningful career is much more than just a job – it’s about finding all of the elements to help you thrive, in one place. Living the Well Life means you’re supported in life, not just work. It means having robust benefits, competitive compensation, and programs designed to help you find work-life balance and well-being. You’ll be rewarded for investing in your community, celebrated for being your authentic self, and empowered to grow. And we’re recognized for it – Wells Fargo once again ranked in the top five on the 2026 LinkedIn Top Companies list of best workplaces “to grow your career” in the U.S . Join us! In this role, you will: Own and communicate the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Auto Finance data products. Lead product discovery with stakeholders to define problems, user needs, target outcomes, success measures, and minimum viable product scope before work enters delivery. Translate business needs into clear epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product requirements that enable data engineering and delivery teams to execute effectively. Serve as the product lead and strategic liaison across business, data engineering, architecture, data management, analytics, operations, risk, and control partners throughout the product lifecycle. Use knowledge of data models, pipelines, integration patterns, data warehouses, and platform capabilities to assess technical options, challenge assumptions, and guide scalable product solutions. Partner with engineering and architecture teams on target-state designs for new data sources and reusable data products without serving as the hands-on solution engineer. Ability to use SQL to investigate data, validate assumptions, assess data quality, and support product decisions Define and monitor product outcomes and service measures, including adoption, quality, timeliness, reliability, compliance, and business value. Drive timely decisions, remove delivery barriers, escalate risks, and align stakeholders when priorities, requirements, or technical constraints conflict.

7+ years of data product or data management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or