James Zhang
Open to work6 years experienceProduct Owner / Developer
Product Owner, Developer, and former VC Principal with cross-cultural expertise in Japan, China, and Singapore.
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Head of Global Operations and Token Strategy
social.meme by Financie
- social.meme is a global meme token launchpad by Financie, focused on tokenising famous Japanese KOLs.
- Managed the launch of the KUNIMITSU token on pump.fun and subsequent operations, achieving a peak holder count of 10,000+ and a peak market cap of USD 1.9M.
- Recruited the global operations team, built the global operations workflow and oversaw global operations of social.meme. Acquired more than 100,000 users on LINE Mini Dapp.
Venture Partner
Emoote
- Fully funded by Akatsuki, a company listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Portfolio includes Stepn, High Street and Ethsign.
- Supported deal sourcing, screening and related investment activities. Successful case: DeQuest, with participation from Delphi Digital.
Principal
Skyland Ventures
- Established Japanese seed-stage VC. Portfolio highlights include AnyColor and Cluster.
- Engaged in fundraising, investment and portfolio support globally across Crypto, Web3 and related fields.
- Led investment into Fondi as lead investor, and participated in investments into RealityCoin with AppWorks, Sfermion and Smrti.labs, as well as Murasaki.
Chief Marketing Officer
Monster Technology Co., Ltd
- Formulated and executed strategies for financing (Seed, Private Rounds, IDO, INO), marketing, business development, English/Japanese content localization and community management.
- Listed on PancakeSwap at a valuation of USD 10M.
- Raised a total of USD 1.25M from leading institutions including OIG, Unix and Gamestarter.
- Achieved approximately USD 0.5M in sales through the sale of 3,000 NFTs during the INO (Initial NFT Offering).
- Generated 402K tweet impressions, 672K profile visits and 52K followers during the 28-day period from 2021/12/22 to 2022/01/08.
Marketing & BD (Japan, External Partner)
rct AI
- Managed influencers, Discord communities, corporate partnerships and media relations for the interactive NFT project Mirror World.
- Directly contributed five-figure USD sales attributable to NFT purchases in the Japanese market.
Business Analyst
Jenerate Partners
- Participated in the design and execution of consulting, business due diligence, project management and Japanese market entry projects.
- Accumulated experience in RFID, IoT, digital transformation, blockchain for financial services, gasification and related domains.
- Performed data analytics on massive datasets for a pharmaceutical client using numpy, pandas, seaborn and scipy.
- Clients included companies listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange as well as overseas unicorn startups seeking to strengthen their presence in Japan.
Projects
Tadareads.fun
- Planned, built and operate a curated Japanese book e-commerce and affiliate site for Chinese-speaking Japanese learners, readers of Japanese books, BL/doujin audiences and business-book readers.
- Built the site on WordPress, designing book presentation pages, category/tag architecture, search and discovery flows, and outbound affiliate purchase flows using Amazon affiliate links and related monetization routes.
- Created tagging, genre classification, copywriting and landing page structures tailored to Chinese-speaking users and their motivations for discovering Japanese original books.
- Designed user journeys around cross-border discovery, comparison and purchase consideration, taking into account cultural differences, reading habits and purchase friction between China and Japan.
- Planned and executed traffic acquisition experiments across Xiaohongshu, WeChat, SEO and community-led channels, connecting content marketing with e-commerce conversion paths.
One Tap Mystery (Wannazo) - TikTok Mini Game Project
- Planned and developed One Tap Mystery (Wannazo), a Cocos-based vertical one-tap mystery/puzzle mini game scheduled for launch on TikTok Mini.
- Designed a low-friction one-tap interaction loop around rules, anomalies and player judgment, optimized for instant comprehension, replayability and high short-video shareability.
- Verified that the end-to-end production workflow can be executed AI-natively, covering scenario ideation, rule/puzzle design, UI/UX iteration, visual and UI asset generation, localization, copywriting and marketing creatives.
- Identified virality clipping as the key success factor, informed by proven success patterns in China where rule-based mystery content spreads through streamer playthroughs, audience discussion, reaction moments and repostable clips.
- Built the product strategy around clip-worthy hooks, fast reveal/failure moments, TikTok-native distribution, IAA monetization and lightweight live- ops/content iteration; led product design, Cocos implementation, localization and launch preparation end-to-end.
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About Details
Professional Bio
Cross-functional professional with experience in VC, Web3, consulting, marketing, and product development. Skilled in business planning, PM/PMO, product design, localization, and user acquisition across Chinese, English, and Japanese markets.
Bachelor of Politics (International Relations)
Keio University (2016 - 2020)