Junbiao Tang

About Junbiao Tang

Senior engineering leader with 20+ years at Meta and Microsoft Bing, building and scaling high-impact organizations at the intersection of AI/ML, advertising, and generative AI. Currently leading Monetization GenAI (MGenAI), a 370+ engineer organization delivering AI-powered business agents and generative creative products that drive billions in incremental revenue. Track record of building teams from zero to hundreds, shipping industry-first products, and navigating complex cross-organizational landscapes to deliver outsized business results.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Engineering, Generative Ai Monetization

   Meta

   May 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Lead a 370+ engineer organization responsible for AI-powered business solutions across three major pillars: Business AI Agents, Creative GenAI, and ML Infrastructure. Built and launched Meta\'s Business AI Agents across WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, and Facebook — enabling businesses to deploy AI-powered sales and support agents at scaleArchitected a flexible agentic framework with dynamic model configuration, allowing businesses to customize agent behavior, tone, and knowledge — creating a true turn-key AI solutionLed a major turnaround in creative AI capabilities — closing the gap from far behind state-of-the-art to within a few percentage points of SOTA, despite lagging foundational modelsAchieved 24% total product adoption across image generation, video generation, and text variant productsDelivered billions of dollars across business AI and creative GenAI productsBuilt the organization from the ground up to 370+ engineers with high talent density in scarce AI/ML expertiseDeveloped a leadership bench of multiple Directors, grew a few IC7→IC8 and M2→D1 leadersNavigated complex cross-org collaboration across 5+ VP-led organizations with distinct incentive structures

Education

• Sun Yat-sen University

  Master, Computer Science

  2004 — 2006

Skills

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Computer Science
• Distributed Systems
• Information Retrieval
• Mobile Advertising
• Big Data
• Mapreduce
• Social Media Marketing
• Object Oriented Design
• Algorithms
• Search Engines
• Software Design
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Data Mining
• Hadoop
• Search