Ruby Zhang

About

I worked for 25+ venture-backed startups — in growth, ops, product, data, and content roles.

Experience

• Head of Growth · Consumer Startup (Raised 4M+)05-01-2024

  1. Spearheaded social media initiatives, driving 150M+ total views (burner accounts) 2. Built and scaled one of the largest college internship programs, recruiting and managing 100+ interns across 20+ universities. 3. Led product and data analysis, resulting in 5x increase in engagement and 3x reduction in churn

• Founder & CEO · Z Squared Growth05-01-2023

  Growth Studio for Gen Z Startups! 1. Built a team of partners & worked with 7+ seed-stage startups to unlock consumer growth 2. Full-stack across social (hundreds of Ms views), marketing + web page automations (x20 traffic), paid ads (15x ROAS)

• Growth · Startups Backed by YC, Accel, Angels from Discord, etc...08-01-2022

  0-1 growth @ 25+ pre-seed to series a startups. industries: consumer fintech, food, sports, edtech, media, social tasks: websites / user engines, data analysis, paid & organic campaigns, product design, content marketing

• Founding, Growth · YC Startup (Raised $3M+) 04-03-2022 – 08-01-2022

  Built internal documentation, analysis tools, and launched lead gen campaigns

• Product + Growth, Fellow · Series D Productivity Startup (Raised $200M+)02-03-2022 – 05-03-2022

  Crafted Docs and worked with the GTM team on development efforts

• Growth and Data · YC Startup (Raised $5M+)09-01-2021 – 04-01-2022

  1. Managed customer pipeline and built websites for small business professionals 2. Built out data visualization dashboards on Tableau and created SEO optimizations

• Data + Product · Series A ML Startup (Raised $28M+)10-03-2020 – 04-03-2022

  1. Labelled user profiles, optimized user tags, and processed data points for supervised learning ML algorithms 2. Conducted UI/UX research on app features through user interviews, survey tools, and guided user testing activities

• Growth · Series D Healthcare Startup (Raised $300M)09-03-2021 – 12-03-2021

  1. Coordinated university expansion efforts through partnerships with organizations and drip campaigns 2. Web-scraped data points and built out competitor analysis (including branding and future pathways)

• Product + Development · Seed Wearable Startup (Raised $1M+)05-03-2021 – 12-03-2021

  1. Wrote user stories and acceptance testing criteria ranging from engineering specs to data requirements 2. Dictated current business strategy with the CTO (built out competitor plan and outlined pricing options)

• Marketing · YC Startup | (Raised 3M+)06-01-2021 – 09-01-2021

  1. Ran community efforts 2. Lots of market research on investment trends & user feedback

• Product Manager · Pre-Seed SaaS Startup09-01-2020 – 01-01-2021

  1. Built product roadmaps, industry analyses, and conducted user survey interviews to improve SMBs’ tech stacks 2. Developed 5+ monetization strategies and created 3+ pricing models to 5 prospective customers

• Consultant (Business+ Technology) · Big 4 Consulting07-01-2020 – 08-01-2020

  1. Mapped multiple Visio processes (depicting data intake, prospective analytics & configurator setup) 2. Produced project deliverables focused on detailed action plans, QA scorecards, executive summaries, and RCMs

• Business Analyst · Blockchain Studio (Raised $700M)10-01-2019 – 08-01-2020

  1. Built customer crypto tools (SQL, Python, Tableau) and automated dashboards with Data Studio and Power BI 2. Generated enterprise leads (CIOs at Fortune 500 companies) and devised Ethereum development strategic plans 3. Authored use cases on blockchain apps, covering OpenLaw, IoT integration, MetaMask, Uniswap, Compound, and MakerDAO

Education

• Carlson School of Management, Honors CollegeBachelor, Information Systems, Marketing, Data, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Design, AMES

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