Gretchen Wetzel.
Consulting now · open to enterprise AI & operations leadership roles

Operations and delivery leadership for enterprise AI.

I own P&L, lead cross-functional teams of hundreds, and deliver complex programs from first pitch to final hand-off — proven at the AI frontier and across a decade in regulated, high-stakes industries.

Independent consultant · ex-micro1 · ex-xAI · MBA, Finance · Chattanooga, TN

7-figureProgram led solo, end to end
400+Staff directed; hundreds led across roles
49%Average gross margin sustained
100%Client retention, AI labs & enterprise
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Experience

Independent Consultant
Operations & Enterprise AI Delivery
Remote2026 — Present
  • Advising organizations on enterprise AI operations, delivery, and program leadership — team and process design, cross-functional execution, and client-facing delivery.
Strategic Project Lead
micro1 · Palo Alto, CA (remote)
2025 — 2026
  • Pitched, closed, and delivered end-to-end engagements for frontier labs and enterprises — including 3 FAANGs — and closed and delivered the company's first non-AI-lab enterprise client solo, an international financial agentic-development program.
  • Led teams of hundreds across experts, reviewers, and leadership layers; coordinated cross-functional client and internal groups spanning research, engineering, ops, and finance.
  • Delivered the company's first integrated RL-environment pipeline for a major frontier lab ahead of schedule, and recovered a previously dissatisfied client into an expanded engagement.
  • Sustained 49% average gross margin while retaining 100% of AI-lab and enterprise clients.
Human Data Manager
xAI · Palo Alto, CA (remote)
Aug 2024 — Sep 2025
  • Promoted twice in three months (AI Tutor → Team Lead → Manager); built and scaled teams of 100+ with 9 direct and 150+ indirect reports.
  • Led a seven-figure, six-month program with up to 400 staff that achieved a 73% model win rate and cut per-deliverable cost 40%+ through workflow, tooling, retraining, and performance management.
  • Built KPI dashboards, QA systems, and reporting frameworks (Python, SQL, and modern ops tooling); presented and defended strategy directly to the CEO.
Supervisor & Trainer, Vote Entry Operations
Associated Press · New York, NY (remote)
Jan 2024 — Present
  • Oversee up to 1,500 contractors collecting and verifying state and general election results — 100% of races called accurately and on time to support race-calling for media customers.
Senior Analyst
The Hartford · Hartford, CT (remote)
Oct 2021 — Aug 2024
  • Ran autonomous full-cycle adjudication of insurance claims from financial, legal, and medical documentation; liaised directly with $200M+ clients, external partners, medical providers, and legal counsel.
  • Completed HartCode rotational training: data & business analytics, advanced Excel & SQL, project and database management, software/web development, Agile, and Tableau.
Senior Records Coordinator
Trupanion · Seattle, WA
Nov 2013 — Jun 2021
  • Analyzed medical records, policy language, and legislation for 10,000+ annual high-priority claims, including appeals, fraud, and legal cases.
  • Served as Claims Department SME on an Agile team across multiple enterprise software-development cycles.
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What I do

Operations & delivery leadership
P&L ownership & margin management
Large-scale team & change management
Cross-functional program leadership
Enterprise client: pitch → close → deliver
Process design & Six Sigma
Data & analytics (SQL · Python · Tableau)
AI program delivery & evaluation
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Education

MBA, Finance
Eastern Washington University · Cheney, WA
B.S., Animal Biology
University of California, Davis
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Toolkit

SQL · Python · Tableau · Cursor · Axiom · JIRA · Linear · Notion · Slack · Google Workspace

Languages

English — native Spanish — semi-fluent Dutch — conversational
Open to opportunities

Let's talk about your next ops challenge.

Currently consulting and open to operations leadership and enterprise AI roles. If you're building something that has to ship accurately, at scale, and on margin — I'd like to hear about it.