👋 HEY, IT'S LEO! 🦁

I build systems to launchcool products & communitiesand teach what I've learned

我搭建系统,推出有趣的产品与社区,也分享从实践中学到的东西。

I'm a product leader, educator, entrepreneur, and DJ/producer working across data, AI, business analytics, community, music, and dance floor

Leo Zhu in Torontoyes, I'm actually on the phone 😂

NEXT UP · CHINA · APR 5–JUL 2, 2027

A cross-cultural challenge一次跨文化挑战

My next exploration is China: learning what it's like to work there while opening new doors across the Pacific

I'm looking to teach what I know, help a Chinese startup or company go global, or take on one focused contract project where product, data, AI, and cross-cultural context are useful

我希望在中国体验当地工作环境,并运用产品、数据、人工智能及跨文化经验,参与短期授课、企业出海咨询或专项项目合作。

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🤔 How can I help?我能如何帮助你?

Translation is the connective tissue of good companies

It is also central to good teaching: understanding what someone needs to know, locating the real source of confusion, and making a complex idea usable without losing what matters

My work has moved across product, data, technology, commercial teams, and markets in China and the wider world

That range has taught me to see the same problem from multiple perspectives, recognize what gets lost between them, and communicate at the level of detail that helps people build capability and move forward

I translate customer needs into product choices, technical constraints into business trade-offs, data into decisions, and cultural context into products and operating models that can travel

The goal is not only clarity in a single conversation, but the shared language, systems, and feedback loops that make collaboration work over time

01

Product + Data产品与数据

Translate customer needs, data, and opportunity into product strategy, experiments, AI/data products, and the operating structure to ship them

02

Teaching + Workshops教学与工作坊

Make complex science, technology, and business legible through teaching, workshops, visual explanation, and audience-specific communication

03

China → Global中国走向全球

Translate local context, customer expectations, and positioning between China and global markets to help products travel well

04

Community + Systems社区与系统

Build teams, programs, and lightweight systems that clarify ownership, preserve context, reduce rework, and let good people act with confidence

👀 Cool stuff I've done我做过的酷事

01

Bazaarvoice

Senior Product Manager, Data Products & Growth

  • Lead attribution, experimentation, data-governance, and LLM-enabled analytics work across Product, Data Science, Engineering, and commercial teams
  • Built the operating systems and data foundations that help other teams test, measure, and build with greater confidence
02

Bazaarvoice

Product Manager, Core Product & Client Experiences

  • Expanded recommendation experiences across product-listing, category, and homepage placements after Bazaarvoice acquired Granify
03

Stan Store

Product Manager, Community (Contract)

  • Relaunched a previously unsuccessful creator-community product, improved adoption, and handed off a healthier product after a focused three-month engagement
04

Granify

Product Manager, Mobile SDK & Core Product

  • Led mobile strategy, SDK delivery, recommendations, and the systems connecting product concepts to engineering and client implementation
05

Jack Westin

Product Manager, Tutor Platform (First Product Hire)

  • Built and scaled an MCAT tutoring marketplace, managed 36 tutor contractors, and left behind the systems for a successor to operate it
06

University of Toronto

Master of Applied Science (MASc), Chemical Engineering

  • Combined pharmacokinetic and genomic metabolic models in research on personalized drug metabolism
07

University of Toronto

Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Chemical Engineering · Minor in Bioengineering

  • Graduated with Honours after building a foundation across engineering, biology, and quantitative problem-solving

📰 Press features媒体报道

📚 Books I recommend我的推荐书单

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Severance book cover

Severance

Ling Ma

Understanding Comics book cover

Understanding Comics

Scott McCloud

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The Art of Spending Money

Morgan Housel

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running book cover

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami

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The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

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Steal Like an Artist

Austin Kleon

The Inner Game of Music book cover

The Inner Game of Music

Barry Green & W. Timothy Gallwey

There's Nothing Like This book cover

There's Nothing Like This

Kevin Evers

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The Way of Zen

Alan Watts

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Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard

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Careless People

Sarah Wynn-Williams

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How to Do Nothing

Jenny Odell

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Brand Admiration

C. Whan Park

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Inspired

Marty Cagan

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The Culture Map

Erin Meyer

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The McKinsey Edge

Shu Hattori

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Empowered

Marty Cagan

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Escaping the Build Trap

Melissa Perri

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The Art of War

Sun Tzu

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Moonshot

Albert Bourla

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Breath

James Nestor

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Atomic Habits

James Clear

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Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Messy Roots

Laura Gao

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The Pivot Year

Brianna Wiest

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What Color Is Your Parachute?

Richard N. Bolles

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80,000 Hours

Benjamin Todd