Doing business between the US and China.

Engineer-turned GTM and strategy professional. I build sales from zero, grow partner channels and drive enterprise pipeline for AI products, and I reported directly to the CEO at both Dify and Retell AI.

Wayne Zhang
$400KClosed personallyDify
$3MUS SaaS ARR over the same periodDify
6 → 10Weekly enterprise meetingsRetell AI

Experience

From startup to GTM, then to the CEO's side.

Retell AI
GTM Lead
Jun – Oct 2026

Reported to the CEO and ran Partnerships and Demand Gen. Made enterprise meetings the core metric and took them from 6 to 10 a week, and rebuilt the partner program.

Dify
Chief of Staff
Aug 2025 – May 2026

Moved from frontline GTM to the CEO's side, working on North America strategy and org design, board and investor materials, and internal AI adoption.

Dify
North America GTM Lead
Jan – Aug 2025

Built North America sales from zero before the company had a sales team, from prospecting to close and post-sale. Closed $400K personally while US SaaS ARR grew to about $3M.

NextWave Insight
Co-founder
Mar – Dec 2024

Founded a startup helping Chinese brands test and enter the US market, owning market research, positioning and growth experiments.

Capabilities

Four problems I can take on.

01

Building sales from zero

With no sales team in place: define the buyer, then run from prospecting through close and post-sale.

Dify North America GTM
02

Partnerships and channels

Sort partners by model, validate with pilots, then scale.

Retell AI · Dify × AWS
03

Enterprise pipeline

Make enterprise meetings the core metric, build the funnel and attribution, and run paid and SEO.

Retell AI Demand Gen
04

Strategy and operations

Market intelligence, board and investor materials, leadership rhythm and internal AI adoption.

Dify Chief of Staff

Background

Trained in engineering, then moved to the business side.

EducationDuke MEng, ECE
ToolsClaude Code · Codex
EventsNVIDIA GTC · AWS Summit
LanguagesEnglish · Mandarin

Let's talk.

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