From Engineer to General Manager in 3 years
Speaker

Zhichun Li is Cofounder at Scout AI, a startup focused on AI-based Sales intelligence. Previously, she was a Director of Engineering at Scale AI, leading Rapid and other internal products, and successfully scaled products from 0 to XXM in ARR. As an early employee of the company, she built up the infrastructure for Scale’s supply ops system and scaled up Scale’s 3D Sensor Fusion product.
Before Scale, Zhi worked at Lightspeed China Partners, Facebook, Microsoft and Airbnb with roles in investment and software engineering.
SUMMARY
Our career path as eng leaders can be nonlinear and present many unexpected twists, turns, and opportunities. This session with Zhichun Li and Jerry Li explores the career leap from engineering to business leadership. They’ll cover principles to navigating career decisions, translating engineering experience to ops/business, building a business unit from the ground up, and pitching ideas to executive leadership.
