Portfolio Daniel Liu · 10 yrs · San Francisco

B2B Growth, and the
AI That Runs It

I run growth marketing for B2B SaaS and fintech, and I build the AI infrastructure it runs on. Paid, lifecycle, CRM, tracking and attribution wired into one engine, with agents carrying the repeatable execution. Open to AI-Native Growth, AI GTM and Marketing Ops & Systems roles.

What I do
  • Full-funnel growth, paid to retention
  • GTM systems, CRM and attribution
  • Lifecycle and email systems
  • SEO, GEO and content engines
  • AI agents that run the above
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WHAT I'M HIRED FOR
Agent-team architect

Multi-agent systems that run marketing and keep each other honest.

AI + growth + ops

One operator where most teams need three, so the numbers reconcile.

Paid to attribution

PingPong's inbound and outbound rebuilt end to end; LinkedIn leads $300+ → ~$160.

Tooling I ship

Nine AI systems in production, designed and built solo.

TRUSTED AT SCALE

Scaled one cross-border payments line at PingPong.

I owned paid acquisition and lifecycle for it as Marketing Manager, Ads & Lifecycle, from October 2021 to September 2023. A regulated cross-border product, so speed could never cost us the audit trail.

  • $2M → $76M in year one, past $250M+ by year two. Annual payment volume through the line: inbound in year one, then an account-based motion built with sales in year two.
  • LinkedIn CPL $300+ → ~$160. Google registrations $90+ → ~$35, with volume held through both.
See the case studies
$250M+annual volume through one cross-border payments line, year two
200+automated workflows running in production
~10 releasesUS site shipped solo in ~3 weeks, no front-end team
9 systemsAI GTM tools designed, built and shipped solo
About

I run the programs and
build the AI that runs them

I'm Daniel Liu, a marketer who wandered too close to operations and campaigns, discovered AI automation along the way, and decided to stay.

A decade later that detour is the whole job: I sit where GTM judgment meets hands-on technical execution, connecting campaigns, CRM, tracking, lifecycle, reporting and AI automation into one revenue engine a CFO can audit.

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10 YRS MARKETING $10M ANNUAL BUDGET FIRST MARKETING HIRE DESIGNS GTM SYSTEMS MULTI-AGENT ARCHITECT 9 AI SYSTEMS SHIPPED AGENT-NATIVE OPS NA · EU · SEA FUNNELS LED A TEAM OF 7
Expertise · six workstreams

Six workstreams,
one AI-native growth system

I owned all six end to end, in the stack and the regions they actually ran in, and rebuilt each one around the part a model can now carry.

AI Lab · nine systems, eight of them here

Working prototypes and one production tool

Every one of these started as a problem slowing down a growth team I was running. I built the fix myself, in code, with AI carrying the part that used to eat the week. All of them are live on a public URL.

Ad copy that clears policy before you export it

ReactTypeScriptViteTailwindGemini 2.5 FlashDeepSeekVercel

Learns your brand voice from your own site, writes channel-native copy for Google, Meta, LinkedIn and Bing, and audits every line against platform policy and your own rules as it writes.

days → minutes · draft to policy-checked copy
CreativeOS screen
Ad variant · LinkedInpolicy-firstv3
Google Ads policy: clear
Meta standards: clear
LinkedIn policy: clear
Brand & legal: clear

Catch the non-compliant phrase before legal does

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Paste a fintech marketing draft, pick the jurisdiction, and get a severity-ranked audit: every risky phrase quoted and matched to the FINRA 2210 clause it trips.

9 jurisdictions · one paste, full audit
FinGuard screen
Draft audit · USFINRA 2210 rulebook3 hits
Risky phrases quoted: 3
Matched to FINRA 2210
Severity ranked
Rewrite suggested

Find the policy violation before the platform does

ReactTypeScriptViteTailwindVercel Functions

Headline, body, URL and the creative itself, audited against ~84 embedded platform policy clauses plus your saved company rules. You get a safety score with every risk explained, before upload.

~84 policy clauses · checked before any model call
AdGuard screen
Creative auditMeta + Google rulebooks92
Destination policy: clear
Prohibited claims: none
Trademark: clear
Image safety: clear

Pull a creator's whole catalog, get the transcripts out

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Paste a Douyin or TikTok profile and it collects the catalog, lifts the transcript from every video, translates and rewrites on your own prompt, then exports to Excel. Runs on the user's own session rather than a shared account pool, which is what keeps accounts safe.

profile → Excel · transcripts, translated
Hyper Creator screen
Collection runone profile, whole cataloglive
Profile pasted0:00
Catalog collected0:12
Transcribed + polished0:33
Exported to Excel0:38

Applications, resumes and interviews in one workspace

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One pasted job description becomes a tracked application, a resume run through a six-step tailoring engine with its ATS read-out, and interview prep built from the same context.

4-pass tailoring · with ATS read-out
Career Capybara screen
Application · one JDsix-step enginev4
JD parsed: role + keywords
Resume tailored: 6 steps
ATS read-out: pass
Interview prep: ready

Turn a creator's whole catalog into something you can ask questions of

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An ETL pipeline scrapes the catalog, strips and transcribes the audio, and embeds everything into a vector store, a Digital Brain you query instead of three hours of scrolling.

catalog → brain · query it like a database
TikTok Miner screen
Catalog ingest142 videos → brainETL
URLs ingested0:00
Audio transcribed0:14
Indexed · searchable0:41
Ask it anything0:45

See the real tech stack behind any competitor's URL

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Fingerprints the HTML and JS bundles, reads DNS and email posture, maps subdomains, then renders the site in a real browser for a deep scan. Every finding is evidence-backed.

6 scan modes · static → deep → interact
TechSpy screen
Stack scansix passes, one reportdeep
HTML + JS fingerprinted
DNS + email posture
Subdomains mapped
Real-browser deep scan

Read the strategy your competitors put into market

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Collects a rival's public ad library, enriches every creative and landing page, labels the set with AI behind a human review queue, and returns a campaign anatomy: market, message, spend posture.

214 creatives · decoded in one run
AdRadar screen
Campaign anatomypublic ad librarybeta
214 creatives collected
Landing pages enriched
Angles AI-labeled
Anatomy returned
Endorsements

In their words

Role fit

Which role are you hiring for?

Hiring for

Enterprise ABM, international launches, lifecycle growth, and the sales partnership around them. I ran all four as one funnel, with numbers that reconcile to finance.

Scope: the B2B cross-border payments line at PingPong (2021–2025), scaled $2M to $250M+, with AI now carrying the reporting and the repeatable execution. Earlier, VP of Marketing at ToLocal, a team of 7 on a $10M annual media budget at 80%+ ROI.

Evidence

Agent-native go-to-market: research, enrichment, campaign build and reporting run as multi-model agent pipelines, with a person setting direction instead of moving rows. Often posted as GTM Engineer, AI GTM Lead or MarTech Lead.

Scope: nine AI GTM tools designed and shipped solo, every one on a live public URL. Currently Senior Marketing Manager at ThinkingAI, leading GTM systems and marketing ops.

Evidence

Workflow architecture, routing logic, attribution hygiene and website governance. I build the systems every other team reads its numbers from, so sales, marketing and finance open the same figure on the same morning.

Scope: Senior Digital Marketing Manager, Growth & Ops at PingPong (2023–2025), sole owner of a governed 8-tool GTM stack and all of Marketing for 6+ months.

Evidence
Selected work · 01 · LANE 01 · GROWTH LEAD

Cross-border payments revenue engine

Owned paid acquisition and lifecycle end to end at PingPong: campaign restructuring, audience refinement, and landing-page optimization, instrumented by channel.

Stack

Read the full case study →

PingPong, B2B cross-border payments. Marketing Manager, Ads & Lifecycle (2021–2023), then Senior Digital Marketing Manager, Growth & Ops (2023–2025).

We worked closely together rolling out a new part of the business, and I was constantly amazed not only by his technical project management skills, but also by his ability to keep the team motivated through the inevitable challenges.
Selected work · 02 · LANE 01 · GROWTH LEAD

Acquisition efficiency at scale

Rebuilt campaign structure, audiences, keywords, and landing paths. LinkedIn CPL fell from $300+ to ~$160 and Google registration cost from $90+ to ~$35, with volume maintained.

Stack

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Same engine, second discipline: efficiency instrumented per channel, so finance could audit every dollar of CAC.

Working with Daniel has been a highlight in my career in fin-tech. He is an extremely diligent worker whose attention to detail is matched by his understanding of how the details affect the bigger picture.
Selected work · 03 · LANE 02 · MARKETING OPS

Marketing ops & automation layer

Built the automation layer across Salesforce, HubSpot, Zapier and GA4: lead handoff compressed to 1–2 minutes across 200+ workflows; the monthly report went from 1–2 hours to under 5 minutes, feeding 8 reports from one cleaned dataset.

Stack

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GTM infrastructure across Salesforce, HubSpot, Webflow, 6sense, Zapier, ZoomInfo, Salesloft, GA4, connected, governed, measured.

… He took over all of Marketing for PingPong for over 6 months and has ensured there was no interruption to the business with minimal support. … His work is thorough and impactful.
Selected work · 04 · LANE 02 · MARKETING OPS

Global web, tracking & lead flow

Led website, CMS, CRO, SEO/GEO and landing-page operations on Webflow, improving campaign scalability, conversion-path consistency, tracking accuracy, and CMS governance across regions.

Stack

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The web layer of the same system: every page instrumented, every region attributable.

As our Digital Marketing Manager, Daniel was instrumental in helping us build and optimize our global website, improving lead flow, and implementing effective tracking systems across multiple regions.
Selected work · 05 · LANE 02 · AI GTM

Reusable multi-agent systems

The agent teams behind the rest of this work, plus the review loop that improves them. Multi-model pipelines with a person on the approval step, including the guardrail that caught a real failure before it reached a customer.

Stack

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The pattern underneath nine shipped tools: define what a model can apply reliably, route each step by what it is worth, and keep a person accountable for the output.

Daniel is a fantastic member of the team with his ability to blend very deep technical knowledge with great interpersonal skills. He is able to quickly understand business requirements and then present a solution in a motivational way in terms appropriate for any level of the audience.
Selected work · 06 · LANE 02 · AI GTM

AI sales intelligence

An inherited account list nobody worked, turned into a ranked and reachable book. Enrichment, scoring and contact discovery run as a pipeline, with the reason for each rank visible to the rep who has to act on it.

Stack

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Sales does not adopt a score it cannot argue with. The rank is shown beside the evidence that produced it, which is what got the list worked instead of ignored.

Daniel has a great track record in the fast-paced environment and has proven himself as an individual who focuses on multi-tasking while balancing the needs and goals of the company. He does what he says he will do, because his word is guaranteed.
Selected work · 07 · LANE 03 · MARKETING OPS & SYSTEMS

CMS rebuild on a funnel-aware platform

ThinkingAI's marketing site rebuilt solo on Sanity, with the content model shaped around the funnel rather than around pages. Publishing moved in-house, and a non-technical team can now run it without me.

Stack

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ThinkingAI, 2026. The platform behind the demo funnel, designed so the people who write the content are the people who ship it.

He is a professional who brings his capability to learn things quickly to get work done successfully. His professional ethic and ease to adapt to any team make him a good element to any organization.
Selected work · 08 · LANE 03 · MARKETING OPS & SYSTEMS

Agent-native reporting

The weekly status compiled from nine connected channels instead of assembled by hand. Agents pull, reconcile and draft; a person clears the exceptions and signs it off, so the number in the deck traces back to the system that produced it.

Stack

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Reporting treated as a product of the architecture rather than a monthly chore, which is the only version that survives someone challenging a figure.

Always open to new workflows or how to improve existing ones, he brings a collaborative and enthusiastic approach to operational initiatives. For every project, he's also a strong partner to help shepherd and support the development of net new deliverables.
Selected work · now

What I'm building now, at ThinkingAI

Since October 2025 I've been rebuilding marketing functions at ThinkingAI as agent-native systems. Seven are written up as full case studies.

How I work

One loop, run on
every system I own

Diagnose

Find the real constraint before spending on top of it.

PingPong, 2021: froze scaling for a quarter to rebuild tracking first

Instrument

One cleaned dataset everyone reads. Definitions before dashboards.

8 standing reports, one dataset, every team on the same number

Automate

The judgment stays human. The busywork doesn't.

200+ workflows: lead handoff ~12h → 1–2 minutes ThinkingAI, 2026: the same loop now runs as reusable multi-agent systems →

Scale

Add budget only on instrumented ground.

Cross-border payments line: $2M → $76M → $250M+
For hiring managers

Let's talk about the role

Hiring for AI-native growth, AI GTM, or marketing ops and systems? Tell me about the team, the role, and the operating problems you actually need solved. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right operator for it.

Open to full-time roles in AI-native growth, AI GTM, and marketing ops and systems. Currently Senior Marketing Manager at ThinkingAI, so no rush and no games. Tell me your start window in the form and I'll tell you mine in the reply.

Goes straight to my inbox, reply within 48 hours. Prefer another channel? Email danielsfsu@gmail.com or call +1 (650) 504-1208.