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Binruo Zou

TikTok Shop
Shanghai
3
years of professional experience
  • Integrated E-commerce Operator: 3 years of experience in TikTok Shop cross-border fashion operations, driving apparel business from 0-to-1 to large-scale expansion; orchestrates merchant acquisition, tiered incubation, and success-case benchmarking to fuel category scalability and platform market-share penetration.
  • Merchant Lifecycle Management Expert: Adept at managing SMB to Key Account (KA) portfolios, implementing scalable seller growth playbooks that pivot white-label merchants from traffic reliance to self-driven growth, while successfully propelling top brands to rank #1 in vertical categories.
  • Data-Driven Category Strategist: Skilled in leveraging macroeconomic trends and micro-level merchant metrics to capture high-growth niches; pioneered the strategic model upgrade for the Modest Fashion segment, converting a traffic-dependent vertical into a self-sustaining second growth curve.
  • AI-Driven Efficiency Innovator: Forward-thinking operator proficient in adapting AIGC tools (Sora, Runway) to restructure visual content pipelines, delivering sharp reductions in labor costs alongside major lifts in CTR and CVR; actively practicing and exploring AI Agent frameworks (Dify, Coze) and Cursor automation scripts to unlock next-generation e-commerce productivity.

Work History

Account Management, Full-Service Elite

2 Years 11 Months
TikTok Shop | 02.2023 - 01.2026
  • New Seller Acquisition & Incubation

Spearheaded the strategic recruitment and 0-to-1 incubation of 100+ non-brand (white-label) fashion merchants to engineer a highly replicable seller growth model focused on product listings optimization and content volume expansion; empowered new merchants through data-driven coaching on blockbuster product matrices, visual marketing enhancement, and traffic scaling, effectively resolving early-stage turnover bottlenecks and ultimately boosting the new product activation rate by 30%+ compared to the platform's benchmark benchmark.

  • Tiered Merchant Management & Key Accounts

Designed and executed a lifecycle-based tiered operational framework (SMB/Potential/KA) to unlock end-to-end merchant growth through tailored product planning, pricing analytics, and high-touch relationship management; specifically orchestrated a growth loop combining precision merchandising, targeted content delivery, and creator affiliate networks for Key Accounts, successfully scaling Brand S from 10 to 3,000+ daily orders to emerge as the #1 merchant within the core Women's Fashion category.

  • Category Strategy & Modest Fashion Innovation

Identified and capitalized on untapped high-growth opportunities within the Modest Fashion segment, orchestrating a comprehensive growth campaign during Ramadan centered on supply chain expansion, MCN agency scaling, and merchant self-operation capabilities to successfully transform the vertical into a self-sustaining category; pioneered AIGC-driven visual restructuring strategies to build a dedicated Modest style line, securing a 120%+ GMV target accomplishment rate, shifting the content GMV mix from 50% to 70%, and skyrocketing daily content-driven GMV from 5,000 to 20,000+ to significantly outperform the core market benchmark.

Education

Master of Arts - Fashion Management

University of Southampton | Southampton, UK | 01-2023

Bachelor of Arts - Fashion Design

South China Agricultural University | Guangzhou, China | 09-2020

Skills

Core Competencies: E-commerce Operations
Merchant Lifecycle Management (SMB to KA)
Data Analytics
Technical & AI Proficiency: AI Agent Frameworks (Coze
Dify)
Generative Video & Visuals (Sora
SeeDream
Seedance)
Automation Scripting (Cursor)
Languages: Mandarin (Native)
English (Fluent)

Timeline

Account Management, Full-Service Elite

TikTok Shop
02.2023 - 01.2026Read More

University of Southampton

Master of Arts from Fashion Management
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South China Agricultural University

Bachelor of Arts from Fashion Design
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Binruo Zou