Service Communications Messaging Strategy Manager

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking an experienced Marketing Senior Manager and writer to join its Service Communications team within Consumer, Small and Business Banking (CSBB) Marketing. The Service Communications team partners with Marketing, Customer Experience, Product and Operations groups across CSBB to modernize service communications to make them simple, personal, and aligned to brand strategy. This role will lead recruitment and development of a team of highly skilled writers. Together the team will transform service communications across CSBB, resulting in improved customer interactions and experiences. This role will have accountability for ensuring all communications written by the team align to internally developed guidelines, follow Wells Fargo brand strategy, incorporate Legal, Compliance, and Product feedback, and include customer experience improvement recommendations.
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In this role, you will:

• Manage a team of communication consultants in the development of copy for a variety of delivery channels, both print and digital.
• Maintain a focus on career development and growth across the team.
• Empower writers to transform communications into simple, straightforward, modern messages and narratives that foster confidence in our products, services, and brand.
• Ensure voice, style, tone, and effectiveness of the writing is consistently carried throughout all communications.
• Bring a customer-friendly, simple, plain-language lens to all communications. Iterate quickly based on team, stakeholder, and Legal and Compliance feedback/direction.
• Maintain internally developed service communication guidelines to ensure consistent alignment to CSBB brand experience. Drive ongoing refinement based on learnings. Use the guidelines as a control to drive consistent content and alignment to CSBB brand experience.
• Be accountable for reviewing and editing all CSBB Service Communications to ensure simplicity/alignment to guidelines, validation of current customer experience/experience improvement recommendations, and product/technical accuracy.
• Leverage quantitative testing/research insights to improve communications. Inform testing/research pipeline.
• Assess and lead AI pilot development to support draft content creation. Work with data and analytics partners to build a Large Language Model (LLM), assess alignment to team guidelines, recommend use cases, etc.
• Lead an enterprise-wide community of practice for customer communications. This includes identifying the right stakeholders, managing a cross-functional team, assessing relevant topics for engagement, and driving decision making and action on key topics.
• Collaborate with functional, technical, or specialist partners to understand communication specification and presentment needs as they relate to and influence copy development in a specific channel or asset type (e.g. word counts, layouts, fonts & sizes, hyperlinks, special characters, etc.) and proactively anticipate other relevant copy requirements.
• Maintain close partnerships with Digital, Product, Ops, and Brand teams, effectively influencing content and prioritization.
• Understand LOB product partner needs through knowledge of Consumer retail banking, products, and services, and business and customer experience objectives. Be "business curious" as well as customer centric.
• Bring an innovative, positive approach to a team that respects and values diversity of professional opinions and experience.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of Marketing, E-business, Digital Marketing, Digital Platforms, or Social Media experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years of management or leadership experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Experienced manager with a track record of driving results by successfully guiding and motivating a team around a common goal.
• Creative Development, Corporate Communications, Public Relations, or Marketing Communications writing experience
• Retail banking product knowledge.

• Nimble, flexible, change-minded team player who is energized about being part of building something new, within an established and extended larger team, and has the vision to guide and coach others along the way.
• Ability to influence and build on service communications standards and style guides and become the keeper of service communications approaches.
• Exceptional influencing, collaboration, and partnership skills.
• Curious about AI and how it can be used to support and assist writers in the development of content.
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently while maintaining an optimistic attitude that energizes teammates and continually builds a positive reputation with business partners.
• Experienced in and passionate about creating simple, jargon-free, concise financial services communication messaging experiences for customers.
• Understands the critical role of proofreading and brings a disciplined, consistent approach to the work.
• Ability to meet stringent deadlines, with high attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent at self-managing schedules, timelines, and deliverable dates without excessive oversight.
• Can make the complex simple.

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule.

This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
Posting Location(s):

• 401 S Tryon St. - Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
• 333 Market St. - San Francisco, California 94105

Required locations listed.
Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.
$139,000.00 - $260,000.00
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

Posting End Date:
7 Aug 2025
* 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.
Applicants with Disabilities
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Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.