She is responsible for overseeing the operations and management of the company's China portfolio, including the video-sharing platform Douyin and the news aggregator Toutiao.
After graduating, Zhang's first position was working on product planning and design for three years in Beijing at Digital Red, a mobile game studio.
In 2006, Zhang left Digital Red and began working at Qianchi Unlimited, a social media app developer.
In February 2013, Zhang founded a photo-sharing app called Tuba, which accumulated nearly 500,000 users in its first six months.
Tuba was acquired by ByteDance in 2014, where Zhang had begun working as a product manager.