Product Owner for Unstructured Data

Senior Lead Digital Product Owner

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Digital Product Owner within the Cybersecurity Information Protection domain. This role reports to the Cybersecurity Governance Product Management Director and partners closely with the Head of Information Protection to execute the enterprise Information Protection Data Protection strategy.

In this role, you will:

• Translate strategic direction, policy requirements, and risk priorities into shipped capabilitiesdriving backlog execution, coordinated roadmaps, and measurable outcomes across discovery, scanning, classification, labeling, enforcement, and remediation workflows.
• Own end-to-end delivery for Information Protection unstructured scanning and governance capabilitiesfrom discovery and design through build, rollout, adoption, and sustainment.
• Serve as the primary interface between Information Protection leadership and engineering teams, ensuring strategic intent is translated into clear technical requirements, delivery scope, and release milestones.
• Drive cross-team coordination to manage dependencies, unblock delivery, and ensure consistent implementation across platforms and lines of business.
• Work directly with privacy, compliance, legal, risk, and lines of business to deliver scalable, auditable, and compliant solutions across unstructured data in on-prem, cloud, SaaS, and M365 environments.
• Plan and manage the feature backlog by writing and refining epics, features, and user stories in Jira, partnering with scrum teams to deliver iteratively and remove impediments.
• Lead discovery and prioritization using voice-of-customer input from application teams, data owners, and governance partnersbalancing usability with enterprise control needs.
• Establish, communicate, and monitor goals and performance indicators (OKRs/KPIs), using data to drive delivery decisions and continuous improvement.
• Apply process optimization and automation to reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and scale enterprise scanning, classification quality, and remediation execution.
• Lead investment planning and quarterly delivery execution across the Information Protection product area, tracking progress, risks, and outcomes through governance routines.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of digital product management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years of experience with Agile practices and frameworks, with strong Jira proficiency (product owner or product manager role).

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience delivering enterprise Information Protection, DSPM, data governance, or data protection programs at scale.
• Hands-on experience with data discovery, scanning, classification, labeling, and/or DLP platforms (e.g., Microsoft Purview, Varonis or similar tools).
• Experience working across multiple cyber domains (Information Protection, Privacy, IAM, Cloud Security, Application Security, Cyber Defense, Third-Party Risk).
• Demonstrated risk management leadership and experience improving enterprise risk posture through technology enablement and governance.

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
• Demonstrate foundational AI literacy by effectively using approved AI tools to support everyday work
• Apply AI tools for activities such as research, summarization, drafting, analysis, and decision support
• Exercise sound judgment when interpreting and using AI?generated outputs
• Understand basic AI limitations and appropriate use cases within daily workflows
• Adhere to data privacy, security, and data?handling standards when using AI tools
• Use AI ethically and responsibly, in alignment with company policies and guidelines

Salary Ranges:

• $159,000 - $254,000 - Charlotte, NC
• $159,000 - $254,000 - Chandler, AZ
• $159,000 - $254,000 - Irving, TX
• $175,000 - $279,000 - Minneapolis, MN

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.

$159,000.00 - $279,000.00

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement