Organization & talent strategy
Organization design, critical talent and foundational HR systems, grounded in business priorities.
PEOPLE LEADER · ORGANIZATION BUILDER · ICF PCC
Build the organization
behind the growth.
I’m Zoe Zhou. I connect business strategy, organization design and leadership development, turning the challenges of growth into practical people and management decisions.
Beijing · Mandarin & English · Global perspective
Zoe ZhouPeople · Organization · Leadership
15+Years in tech HR & organization development
200 → 400–500Beijing team growth supported at HAOMO
30+Managers developed at HAOMO
PCCICF Professional Certified Coach
01 / ABOUT
Close to the business.
Attentive to the whole system.
My path spans global talent development and M&A culture integration at Lenovo, business partnering at DiDi and Alibaba Cloud, and HR leadership at HAOMO.AI. A question connects these experiences: how does an organization keep pace with its business?
Since 2023, my advisory and executive coaching practice at HG Center has continued that work with startups and growing businesses. An external perspective, grounded in in-house experience, helps me connect diagnosis with practical management mechanisms.
I’m looking to join a technology or AI company navigating growth, organizational change or globalization, and contribute over the long term in People Leadership, HRBP or organization development.
Performance & operating rhythm
Goal alignment, OKRs, performance conversations and cross-team coordination that turn strategy into daily practice.
Leaders & global teams
Leadership transitions, professional coaching and cross-cultural integration, with attention to both people and systems.
02 / SELECTED IMPACT
A career in practice.
Problems turned into action.
Three settings that show how I translate business pressure into organizational work.
AI / SCALE-UP01
Building capacity for an expanding R&D organization
HAOMO.AI · HR Director / Beijing HRBP Leader
- The context
- During rapid AI and autonomous-driving growth, the Beijing team expanded from approximately 200 to 400–500 people, primarily in engineering and product.
- My contribution
- Connected critical hiring, team structure, onboarding and cross-location coordination. Helped implement OKR and performance mechanisms from CEO goal-setting to management reviews and tool-based tracking; supported technical experts moving into management.
- Practice & impact
- Supported organizational capacity through expansion, developed 30+ managers, and contributed to R&D role boundaries and talent allocation.
30+Managers developed
Explore the approach
From goals to management behavior
Manager development focused on goal-setting, feedback, delegation and cross-team coordination. The aim was to help new managers apply these practices in performance conversations and everyday operating rhythms.
GTM / BUSINESS PARTNERING02
Connecting people decisions to the business rhythm
Alibaba Cloud · HR Business Expert / Key Account HRBP
- The context
- Growing sales and presales teams needed to align revenue goals, customer demands and critical talent capacity.
- My contribution
- Partnered with business leaders on hiring, organization design, performance accountability and team collaboration. Supported a new leader in building trust and establishing a working rhythm with the team.
- Practice & impact
- Built a business-led HRBP approach: connect each people action to a business goal, a critical population and an intended outcome.
GTMFrontline business partnering
Explore the approach
What business partnering means to me
Start with the revenue goals and business model, then identify constraints in critical roles, collaboration and leadership capability. The work is to help teams make better trade-offs and follow through on execution.
GLOBAL / ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT03
Connecting people and culture through global integration
Lenovo · Organization Development Consultant
- The context
- Global operations and the Lenovo–Motorola acquisition created needs for cross-cultural collaboration, shared management language and talent development.
- My contribution
- Contributed to culture integration across EMEA, AMER and APAC, and partnered with global business units on management, high-potential, graduate trainee and onboarding programs.
- Practice & impact
- Built experience in global OD and integration, connecting culture with leadership behaviors, talent programs and everyday collaboration.
GLOBALCross-cultural experience
Explore the approach
From cultural ideas to daily collaboration
Integration becomes practical through shared management language, talent programs and ways of working. My focus was to help teams from different backgrounds build common understanding and sustainable practices.
03 / EXPERIENCE
A connected path through People work.
Talent & OD → Business partnering → HR leadership → Advisory & executive coaching
Oct 2023 — Present
HG Center
HR & Organization Advisor · ICF PCC Executive Coach
Support startups and growing companies with organization diagnosis, HR foundations, performance mechanisms and manager development; provide global leadership coaching through BetterUp.
Advisory / Executive coachingJun 2021 — Sep 2023
HAOMO.AI
HR Director · Beijing HRBP Leader
Supported the expansion of AI product and engineering teams, leading HRBP work and company-level OD, performance and manager development initiatives.
AI / Organizational scalingJun 2020 — Jun 2021
Alibaba Cloud
HR Business Expert · Key Account HRBP
Partnered with sales and presales teams to align critical talent, performance accountability and collaboration with business growth.
Business partnering / GTMOct 2017 — Jun 2020
DiDi
HRBP Manager
Supported organizational change, complex employee relations and performance governance while maintaining team stability during business transformation.
Change / Employee relationsAug 2015 — Oct 2017
LeTV
Talent Development Manager
Built leadership, talent and operating mechanisms during global expansion and organizational restructuring.
Talent development / GlobalizationJul 2011 — Aug 2015
Lenovo
Organization Development Consultant
Contributed to Motorola acquisition culture integration and global management, high-potential, graduate trainee and onboarding programs.
Global OD / Culture integration04 / BUILDING & LEARNING
Turning experience
into reusable tools.
Recent independent work: structuring organization and management knowledge into workflows, interactive prototypes and research frameworks, with AI supporting professional judgment.
Knowledge framework & local prototype
Founder OS / Organization Diagnosis Copilot
Turn ambiguous organizational problems into clarifying questions, issue classification, framework matching and a 30-day system experiment.
Explore the concept
Examine the founder, team and organizational systems together, then structure a diagnosis, interview questions and action plan. Current work focuses on knowledge models and local prototypes; it is not a production AI service.
Static front-end MVP
IC → Manager Transition Workbench
Connect an initial diagnosis, seven days of action, management scenarios, conversation guides and reflection for new managers.
Explore the product design
The prototype supports profiles, daily actions and local progress tracking. Its Coach module currently uses a local rules engine, without a live LLM API; the focus is on translating management learning into daily practice.
Static information tool
Global Labor Law Directory
Organize country and jurisdiction navigation around official labor-law and government sources for international HR research.
Explore the design principles
Organize information by topic, jurisdiction and official source, with traceability and clear information layers. The tool provides research entry points; employment decisions still require current rules and local professional advice.
05 / LET’S CONNECT
Let’s talk about your team
and its next chapter.
I welcome conversations with technology and AI companies, recruiters and search partners about People Director, Head of HR, HRBP Leader or OD roles, as well as founder advisory and leadership development.
Beijing / GMT+8 · Remote or flexible hybrid preferred