Julia Li

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DISC Type : C

Head of Flow AI PaaS engineering at ByteDance

San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Overview

Julia Li is the Head of Stone PaaS at ByteDance, with over a decade of management and engineering experience in the US and China. She has a strong technical background in machine learning and NLP, and holds an MBA from UC Berkeleys Haas School of Business.

She has extensive experience leading international teams across the US, China, India, and Canada, demonstrating a strong capability for navigating different cultures. Julia is focused on building new platforms that transform workplace collaboration and is actively hiring senior engineering talent for her team.

While at Baidu, she managed the R&D department for Baidu Tieba, growing it from a small website to a major social network with over 100 million daily active users.

Personality Overview

Critic

Precise

ROI Driven

It is very likely that they will negotiate pricing or other important terms.  Unless the value is proven by data, they are unlikely to value fancy features. They prefer to analyze logically and value objective facts over emotions.

Topics They Care About

AI-powered Tools
Shared her experience with Baidu's AI-powered video generation tool, VidPress, highlighting a keen interest in practical AI applications that create new user experiences.
SaaS Engineering
Is actively hiring senior experts in SaaS software engineering for her team at ByteDance, indicating a focus on building scalable, enterprise-grade cloud applications.
Workplace Collaboration
Her current work involves leading engineering for Lark, a suite designed to revolutionize workplace collaboration by combining messaging, scheduling, and documents on one platform.

Media Appearances

Julia has no verified media appearances

Work History

5-2022
Head of Flow AI PaaS engineering at ByteDance
1-2020 - 5-2022
Deputy General Manager of Baidu USA, Director of Baidu Research USA at Baidu USA
4-2017 - 1-2020
Director (Baidu Research institute, Silicon Valley AI lab) at Baidu USA
5-2014 - 4-2016
Tech lead, Member of Techinical Staff at Intel Corporation
12-2009 - 5-2012
Technical Engineering Manager at Baidu, Inc.

Education

2016 - 2019
Master of Business Administration (MBA) from University of California, Berkeley
Master's degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Insights For Selling To Julia

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Keep some extra margin while sharing pricing, they are likely to negotiate later
  • Don’t forget to mention how you compare to competition on both features and pricing
  • Leverage facts and figures wherever possible; use percentages, numbers etc.

DONT's

  • Avoid pushing them too much to involve other stakeholders unless it is critical
  • Make extra effort to not seem pushy or confrontational
  • Don’t try too hard to build a relationship with them

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Julia is

  • Proof of ROI, low pricing and objective proof points are the important factors for them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Julia

  • They do not mind saying no if they believe that it is the right decision.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Julia move?

  • Their decision-making is neither very fast nor very slow, they are somewhere in between.
  • Can Julia take some risk or not?

  • They can take risks if their analysis shows that it would be worth it.

You And Julia

Personality Compatibility


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