Tao Zhang

About

Tao Zhang

Lead AI Product Manager. NYU. Previously ByteDance and Tencent. I build agentic AI products that turn fragmented marketing workflows, data, and APIs into measurable growth — most recently Navos, a multi-agent platform for cross-border ecommerce merchants.

At Navos I own the product for campaign and journey management, audience and segmentation, and commerce flows end to end. The work sits on TikTok Shop, Amazon, and Shopify. Earlier product work at ByteDance and Tencent reached more than 10 million users.

Shipped and measured

I want to own the agentic AI roadmap — marketing automation, AI-driven commerce and retail media, or an agent platform (MCP, orchestration) — and ship from 0-to-1 to measurable revenue.

Education

MS in Information Systems from NYU, split between Stern and Courant. Professional certificate: Machine Learning in Production (DeepLearning.AI). I also spent time as a data scientist at NYU, building pipelines for medical research.

Long essays live in Writing. The same piece goes out in the newsletter. Short posts from LinkedIn, X, and Mastodon sit in Notes and link back here. Research — e-commerce now, fintech next — lives under Research. Advisory work is on Work with me. Public tools, starting with AI agent product news, live under Tools.

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