Head of Product Portfolio and Risk Management | Wealth & Investment Management (WIM) Chief Product Office (CPO)

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The Head of Product Portfolio and Risk Management is a senior leadership role within the Wealth & Investment Management (WIM) Chief Product Office (CPO) responsible for establishing and leading an integrated team supporting product portfolio and risk management functions, including portfolio governance, investment planning and prioritization, operating routines, business controls, audit readiness, and product risk governance.

This leader will establish the frameworks, processes, and governance needed to drive transparency, accountability, and effective execution across the product portfolio while ensuring alignment with enterprise expectations, regulatory commitments, business objectives, and CPO priorities.

The role serves as a strategic advisor and execution partner to the Chief Product Officer, helping drive organizational effectiveness, investment decisions, portfolio performance, risk transparency, and cross-functional alignment across the Product organization.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Health and Execution Oversight

• Provide oversight of the CPO portfolio, including initiative status, delivery risks, dependencies, mitigation plans, leadership support needs, and paths to green for critical priorities.

• Enable transparency, accountability, and executive decision-making across the Product organization.

• Establish reporting and governance routines that provide actionable insights and portfolio visibility.

Investment Planning and Prioritization

• Lead investment planning, funding alignment, business case development, resource planning, and prioritization activities across the product portfolio.

• Ensure investments align with WIM and CPO strategic objectives.

• Help ensure the organization is investing in the highest-value opportunities, delivering against commitments, and achieving intended business outcomes.

Product Risk, Governance, and Controls

• Lead centralized oversight of product risk, governance, and business controls across the WIM Chief Product Office.

• Establish and maintain consistent governance standards, controls, protocols, and accountability routines across the product portfolio.

• Oversee risk identification, control effectiveness, issue remediation, audit readiness, regulatory commitments, governance reporting, and self-assurance activities.

• Strengthen risk transparency and business accountability through effective oversight and reporting.

Operational Simplification and AI Enablement

• Identify opportunities to strengthen controls, simplify processes, improve documentation, reduce risk, and enhance operational effectiveness.

• Leverage data, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to improve portfolio oversight, governance, reporting, issue management, and decision support capabilities.

Executive Leadership and Cross-Functional Partnership

• Serve as a strategic advisor and execution partner to the Chief Product Officer.

• Support executive priorities, leadership forums, organizational effectiveness initiatives, and executive communications.

• Partner across Product, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Audit, Finance, and Operations to drive accountability, manage risk, and deliver critical business outcomes.

• Influence senior leaders and align stakeholders across a highly matrixed environment.

Team Leadership and Talent Development

• Build and sustain an integrated operating model that enables effective portfolio governance, investment planning, prioritization, performance reporting, risk transparency, and executive decision-making.

• Lead and develop a high-performing team responsible for portfolio management, product risk governance, controls oversight, operating routines, and investment planning.

• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and execution excellence.

Success in This Role

Successful candidates will bring a unique blend of product portfolio leadership, governance expertise, and executive influence. They will have demonstrated success operating in complex, highly regulated environments and be recognized for their ability to drive organizational alignment, strengthen execution, and deliver meaningful business outcomes.

This role presents a unique opportunity to shape how the WIM Chief Product Office manages product portfolio, investment planning, risk oversight, and organizational accountability to accelerate the delivery of business priorities across the product organization.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of risk management, business controls, or compliance experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.

• 4+ years of management or leadership experience.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in product portfolio management, governance, strategy, operations, or related functions within a large, complex organization.

• Experience leading portfolio governance, investment planning, prioritization, business controls, and risk management functions.

• Experience managing regulatory, audit, control, and issue remediation programs within a highly regulated environment.

• Strong investment planning, resource allocation, funding governance, and business case development.

• Proven ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across Product, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Legal, Audit, and Operations.

• Experience leading organizational transformation, operational improvement, and governance initiatives.

• Experience leveraging data, automation, and AI capabilities to improve decision-making and operational effectiveness.

• Wealth Management, Banking, Financial Services, or FinTech experience preferred.

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 unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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