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.

Off the clock, I foster rescue litters, tutor refugees, and volunteer across Chattanooga.

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

GWG. Wetzel
Gretchen Wetzel
7-figureProgram led solo, end to end
500+Cross-functional team members led, across multiple levels
73%Model win rate on flagship AI program
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 across MAG7 companies, neolabs, and enterprises — 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.
  • Retained 100% of AI-lab and enterprise clients across all engagements.
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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Other things I've done

Alongside my main career, I've also taken on:

Recruiting & talent partnering Data & investigative journalism US Census data operations Small business management & development
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Out in the community

A sampling of where I volunteer:

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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.

Currently consulting and open to operations leadership and enterprise AI roles. If you're building something that has to ship accurately and at scale — or you just want to compare notes — I'd like to hear from you.