Summary
Jiaona Zhang is a product and engineering leader with 15 years of experience building consumer and enterprise platforms, from mobile games and marketplaces to developer platforms and AI infrastructure. Currently Chief Product Officer at Laurel, she’s focused on using workplace activity data and enterprise AI to reclaim time for knowledge workers. She previously scaled Linktree into a creator commerce powerhouse (70M+ users, $6B+ annual commerce) and led product at Webflow, driving ~10x revenue growth and launching its collaborative and ecosystem initiatives. A lecturer at Stanford and Reforge program creator, she combines hands-on technical fluency (Go, Python) with deep product craft and people development. Known for moving quickly with small teams, she’s equally comfortable untangling organizational complexity as shipping AI-embedded product experiences. An early researcher-turned-product-leader, she brings analytical rigor from her consulting and research roots to high-leverage product decisions.
15 years of coding experience