Guanglei Zhang Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Content Assembly: - Version Management/Control- Course Hierarchy Builder- OLAPContent Delivery Pipeline— Content CI/CD Diagnostics— Publishing ServiceIAM- Permission/AccessDesign System- Increased Platform delivery velocity 3xTeam Leadership- Directly leading two product owners across two engineering squads. (20 engineers)

Shanghai | California

Provided product and content consulting services for global EdTech companies. *Relocated back to the US in Sept, 2022Clients: Cengage, Amazon, articulateai.com

Shanghai, China

As a member of ByteDance AI Lab, I was one of two product manager working with different business unit to utilize Bytedance AI capabilities for Educational Products in the post EdTech double reduction in China. ■ English Language CAT learning placement test and learning recommendation optimization- Defined key metrics for placement test success. (CEFR Placement Accuracy 26% increase by IRT modal)- Average questions answered lowered by 33% compare with previous placement test.- 10% Increase in full course purchase conversion for 10 day trial course. - student retention increased 10% for first 14 days of learning.- learner NPS increased by 16%. ■ Scenario based AI oral & listening English language proficiency CAT assessment.- Conducted English language speaking assessment product research and roadmap planning. (ETS SpeechRater & Duolingo English Test)- Delivered CAT scoring engine (human vs machine score Pearson corr > 0.71)- Collaborated with linguistic experts, psychometrician and AI engineers on the development of automated oral language scoring engine. (Features include: Semantic Quality, Lexical Diversity, Lexical Accuracy, Syntactic Accuracy, Syntactic Diversity, Prompt Adherence, and Text Formality)

Shanghai, China

** Impacted by company/Industry wide layoff due to government edtech crackdown (Double reduction policy)Jiliguala is the leading Early Childhood Language Learning Platform in China. I lead the Game Course Platform team to help scale course offering to different subject areas. ■ Define team OKR and execute strategies (vision, prioritization, features roadmap) necessary for the platform team.- Manage a team of three product managers and responsible for group OKRs.Products:■ Jiliguala Game Course Management System- Led the design and implement interactive Cocos game content pipeline and deployment SOP which resulted the increase of productivity by 30% for 100 game producers- Delivered Jiliguala English Language course for total 1.3M MAU.- Scaled Jiliguala Course Management System from English subject to Math and Chinese subject.■ Parents Ownership & Course Fulfillment Center- Designed and implemented parents course ownership and SKU/SPU fulfillment system.- Designed a course package system for cross subject SKU & SPU bundles, scaled salable SKU from 1 to 20+.- Stored ~1.3M student learning records and responsible for provide learner report API for three different subjects

Shanghai, China

Fulfilling Non-Compete restriction in China EdTech.

Shanghai City, China

Liulishuo is a China based "AI + language" (2017 CB Insights AI 100) company serving the ELL market. I set the vision and lead the development of an enterprise content management system for adaptive language learning courses.■ Set the product vision and north star metrics in order to enable the company to grow from 1 to 100.- Manage a team of product managers and responsible setting group OKRs.- product vision was used as part of LAIX IPO SEC F-1 filingProducts:■ Content Authoring System- Designed domain specific language for Liulishuo’s proprietary English language, English games and pronunciation question types- Scaled Liulishuo authoring tool from one course to ten courses in first six months, which resulted the total number of learning activity templates increased 100%- Increased the productivity of content authoring by 45% for 100 content developers■ Digital Asset Management Systems (DAM)- Worked with multiple media production teams to build standardized media asset creation, storage and deployment systems.- Created a workflow-ticket system to streamline audio and image process which increased productivity by 20%- Worked with AI Speech engineer to implement TTS and SSML editing and streamlined speech model file deployment for both iOS and Android users (~1m paid users with 10m total MAU); resulted in saved recording budget by 15%.■ AI/NLP/LLM based taxonomy Tagging System- Stored four different English Language Knowledge trees with both manual and automatic NLP/ASR tagging capabilities for over 15k questions■ Content Analytics System (OLAP)- Designed content analytics dashboard for content revision strategy, increased content accuracy rate by 20%

Pudong, Shanghai, China

ALO7 is the leading B2B2C English language learning SaaS company, I lead the learning system product team to deliver SaaS learning services to over 100+ after school English language schools. Products:■ Homework & CAT Assessment System- Responsible for redesign ALO7 homework system from flash based technology to modern Swift and React hybrid app- Worked with Learning Design and Content development to deliver mobile first question templates which are used over 300,000 total questions via iOS, Android and WeChat mini program.■ Instructor Courseware System- Developed online merge offline in-class Courseware system for over 100+ offline tutoring schools.- Worked with Instructional Designer to enable gamification lessons for offline teachers and students. ■ Adaptive Learning Content Service System- Served as content services lead in charge of Lexile® partnership negotiation and implementation of Lexile® Analyzer API for internal CMS- In charge of overall company learning objectives initiative in order to speed up the content creation process by utilizing the next generation content bank.

San Francisco Bay Area

■ Re-hired as Sr. Content Lead for personalized developmental math learning system - MindTap Math Foundation.- Team Lead for the developmental math content group, and responsible for delivery of product on time and under budget- Product Owner responsibility for math authoring systemProducts:■ MindTap Math Foundations (Best Emerging Instruct. Tech. Solution - 2018 SIIA CODiE Finalist)- Content owner responsibility for budgeting, planning, project management, and launch.- Managed developers and content writers for over 400 math mini games.- Set up an agile content development team which deployed content to production biweekly.- Acted as Product Owner for assessment, game content authoring and delivery system.- Worked with engineers and system architects to streamline the authoring tool development cycle in parallel with the content development cycle.■ Math Literacy - Online WebAssign Course- Delivered the first-to-market online math learning product for non-STEM majors- Mentored and trained Jr. Content Developer on digital-first products

San Francisco Bay Area

■ Hired as the first product manager to help the company deliver 1st to market Chinese immersion digital product.Products:■ Better Immersion Hybrid Product - K-2- Worked with Curriculum Developer and Commercialization team to plan product roadmap - Designed and developed K-2 language teaching app and audio synchronization ebooks.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked on Stewart Calculus and Larson Calculus which are used by millions of college students around the world.■ Started as product assistant and promoted four times into Content Developer role.- Increased responsibility over the years in terms of managing digital content development for titles from Developmental Math, Liberal Arts Math, and Calculus with a maximum digital content budget over $1 mil annually.- Wrote RFPs and SOWs to negotiate QA and content development contracts for digital products- Designed and implemented algorithm content authoring, MindTap Reader production process which scaled for the whole content development team.

* Prepare and help staff with their projects by using MS Word and Excel.* Recognize and solve computer hardware and software problems.* Prepare and work on confidential documents individually.

* Gain first-hand experience investigating the societal impacts on nanotechnology with Professor.* Attend Meetings, special seminars and skills development workshops.* Build and maintain database of scientists using excel and Google Earth.

* Test and refines queries for searching for scholarly publications.* Build and maintain database of those scientists using their publication and annual locations. * Perform basic analysis of trends by using Excel and Google Earth.

* Teach Algebra and Geometry to students who are from low-income families.* Give an introduction of the course; well prepare them for the coming fall semester. * To establish a study habit for students and get them ready for college.

* Teach Algebra and Geometry to students who are from low-income families.* Give an introduction of the course; well prepare them for the coming fall semester. * To establish a study habit for students and get them ready for college.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics-Mathematics

Minor, Mathematics For High School Teaching

High School Diploma