GTM & Strategy ↗ platform.stepfun.ai
StepFun (StepAudio 3 & Step 5 Models)
San Francisco, CA
Aug 2026 – Present
Melody Teng
Education
University of Toronto · Bachelor's Degree
Statistics Major · Rotman Commerce Specialist
GPA 3.7 / 4.0
Dean's List Scholar
Student Council Leadership Award Scholarship
Toronto, Canada
Sep 2021 – Apr 2026
Experience
- Owned integrations onboarding, using funnel drop-off analysis and A/B testing to lift first-integration completion by 30%.
- Conducted 10+ discovery interviews with early design partners, translating pain points into a prioritized product backlog.
- Scored 1,000+ candidate connectors on user demand and build effort to define the GitHub, Notion, and Gmail launch tier.
- Wrote 3+ PRDs for core features including scoped permissions and agent workflows, driving each through eng review.
- Represented Kylon to founders and presented roadmap and metrics to internal stakeholders, driving alignment on priorities.
Data Analyst Intern ▼
RBC Royal Bank of Canada
Toronto, Canada
Jan – Aug 2025
Data Analyst Intern ▼
RBC Royal Bank of Canada
Toronto, Canada
Jan – Aug 2025
- Queried and transformed large datasets from Snowflake using SQL to support monthly data quality reporting.
- Automated and rebuilt the Financial Report using Python and Excel VBA, enhancing efficiency by 87.5% (4 hrs to 30 mins).
- Developed executive-ready interactive Tableau dashboards to visualize inconsistencies in Financial M&A and Loan deal records.
- Designed the Daily Deposit Balance Report to monitor $37B+ in corporate deposits, incorporating inflow/outflow trend analysis, multi-year benchmarks, and run-off forecasts. Introduced a macro-driven workflow that eliminated all manual reporting steps.
- Partnered with Finance and Credit teams to consolidate loan, deposit, and income data, presenting an insights story for executives.
Data Analyst Intern ▼
Xiaohongshu (RedNote)
Shanghai, China
Jul – Sep 2024
Data Analyst Intern ▼
Xiaohongshu (RedNote)
Shanghai, China
Jul – Sep 2024
- Analyzed 200K+ rows of sales and advertising data with advanced SQL and automated VBA workflows, identifying high-ROI advertising trends, optimizing digital advertising strategies, and boosting ROI by 15%.
- Built Power BI dashboards to visualize real-time regional performance and guide sales strategies across APAC.
- Designed predictive models for seasonal demand trends using Python and regression analysis.
- Drove compliance alignment for medical and finance verticals by developing data-based risk monitoring frameworks.
Business Analyst Intern ▼
Microsoft
Beijing, China
May – Sep 2023
Business Analyst Intern ▼
Microsoft
Beijing, China
May – Sep 2023
- Collaborated with the Product Team on major products such as Microsoft Edge, supporting AI integration and feature optimization.
- Supported Microsoft's AI product integration initiatives by evaluating 5 AI startups and industry trends, producing data-driven strategic reports influencing Microsoft's technology adoption roadmap.
- Delivered daily AI newsletters, keeping executives informed on cutting-edge developments and market dynamics.
- Partnered across product, engineering, and marketing teams to coordinate data-governed communication pipelines.
Events
Events I have hosted :)
StepFun · Seamate · Mito Health · Coral · Kylon
San Francisco, CA
Feb 2026 – Present
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Step 5 Preview Launch Night & AI Founders Meetup ↗ luma.com/12t5e4lc
We launched Step 5 Preview, StepFun's new open-weights flagship LLM built for real-world agents at affordable inference, with a live Q&A, then a panel on what's worth building as models keep getting better.
- Hongyu Zhou · Pretraining Researcher (keynote)StepFun
- Dan Fu · Founding SVP of ResearchTogether AI
- Mar Hershenson · Co-founder & Managing PartnerPear VC
- Saoud Rizwan · FounderCline
- Joey Wang · Engineering LeadHarvey
Voice AI Meetup: StepAudio 3 Launch ft. PLAUD, Cresta, Coval & SGLang ↗ luma.com/bkpe5h92
We launched StepAudio 3, StepFun's next-generation audio model family built to understand voice, sound, context, and the rhythm of conversation, with live demos and an AMA, then a cross-stack panel on taking real-time voice AI to production. StepFun is a foundation model company whose Step models span language, audio, multimodal, and reasoning.
- Xuerui Yang · Head of StepAudio (keynote)StepFun
- Yijia Zhang · Partner & Head of AI Algorithm & PlatformPLAUD.AI
- Jove Zhong · Head of Forward Deployed EngineeringCresta
- Kobi Hudson · Head of EngineeringCoval
- Jingwen Gu · MaintainerSGLang-Omni
Voice AI Founders' Dinner
A private, invite-only dinner the night after the launch for founders and engineering leaders building in voice and multimodal AI.
- George Cameron · Co-founderArtificial Analysis
- Gavin · Platform Model Partnershipfal
- Debajyoti (Debo) Datta · Co-founderHippocratic AI
- Bin Liu · VP, Agent & Product EngineeringHeyGen
- Xiuzhen (Flora) Zhang · Head of Quality AssuranceTrip.com
- Yijia Zhang · PartnerPLAUD.AI
- Jove Zhong · Head of FDECresta
- Tony Wang · Co-founderAgora
- Kwindla Hultman Kramer · FounderPipecat
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SaaStr Week Founder Mixer 🍕🍺Step Out. StepFun In. ↗ luma.com/4cqlswgf
We hosted this founder mixer during SaaStr Week with StepFun — pizza, drinks, and none of the slide decks. StepFun opened with a short intro, then we ran a 25-minute open mic where anyone could stand up and say what they were building and who they wanted to meet. 249 people registered: AI-native founders, SaaS builders adding AI to their stack, and investors watching the application layer. Big enough for good introductions, small enough that nobody got lost.
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AI Native Developers Meetup @ Google I/O Week ↗ luma.com/ai-native-developers-io-week
Our biggest event yet. We ran a panel night for AI-native developers during Google I/O week with Linkloud, with speakers from Google, StepFun, Genspark, and Comfy on agents, AI-assisted development, multimodal creation, and what it takes to run any of it in production. 918 people registered and about 500 showed up — mostly developers already in town for I/O, plus founders, agent builders, and investors. Part of Seamate's Front Row Series: catch the whole ecosystem while it's in one place.
- Adam Mawdesley · Chief Revenue OfficerSubotiz
- Ailing Teng · General Manager of Developer Products & EcosystemStepFun
- Artur Kiulian · CEOPrinciple
- Bill Zhu · Founder & CEOPokee AI
- Ran Li · Co-creator of Google's Agent EngineGoogle
- Robert Scoble · Founder & CEOUnaligned
- Yannik Marek · Co-founderComfy
- Queena Qiu · Founder & CEOPolyverse
- Roberto Pernicone · CEOAntal Capital
- Jian Zhou · Director of EngineeringGoogle Play
- Jiabo Feng · FounderBlink.new
- Lenjoy Lin · Co-founderGenspark
- Chaoyu Yang · Director of GTMModular
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OpenClaw Guided Workshops: Build Your First AI Workflow Live
We ran this workshop series with Coral, an early-stage startup that lets anyone deploy OpenClaw as a secure, always-on AI agent in minutes. We took it to five venues — San Francisco, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Stanford, and Berkeley Haas — and the room changed every time: small business owners and solo operators in SF, students and first-time founders at Stanford GSB and Haas, engineers and PMs in Mountain View. Roughly 1,300 people came across seven sessions.
- #1 — Pebblebed, San Francisco ↗ 137 attended
- #2 — Frontier Tower, San Francisco ↗ 292 attended
- #3 — Stanford GSB, Palo Alto ↗ 130 attended
- #4 — Frontier Tower @ Spaceship, San Francisco ↗ 196 attended
- #5 — Mountain View ↗ 110 attended
- #6 — Berkeley Haas, with HEA × Berkeley China Summit ↗ 138 attended
- #7 — Coral × Nexad × Gen: OpenClaw for Ads & Marketing Night, San Francisco ↗ 315 attended
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Sake Night with Kylon ↗ luma.com/74s6v040
We threw a two-night sake tasting for Kylon's pre-launch. Four to five premium sakes each night, a few surprises in between, and time with the team building the product. We capped it at about 28 guests a night in a private SF apartment so everyone could actually meet everyone — invite-only, mostly founders, operators, and early users we thought would care about what Kylon was making.