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Hyunwoo Kim

SENIOR DIRECTOR,
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
@MOLOCO

Hyunwoo Kim

20+ years driving growth at the intersection of advertising, technology, and product innovation.

About

A seasoned leader
in AdTech.

A seasoned AdTech leader with deep expertise in business development, product management, and digital advertising. From shaping display ad products at NAVER to building monetization engines at Pikicast — a journey defined by innovation and impact.

Joined MOLOCO — a world-class AI company powering machine learning-based advertising solutions — as its first Product Manager, successfully launching Moloco Ads, the company's inaugural product. Then became a founding member of the Moloco Commerce Media business, helping grow it into a $154M annual gross ad spend operation.

Now leading business development for Moloco Commerce Media, driving AI-powered retail media innovation by partnering with Korea's top-tier e-commerce and retail platforms to transform the retail media landscape.

Hyunwoo Kim speaking at conference
20+
Years of Experience
4
Career Tracks: ENG · AE · PM · BizDev
#8
Longest Tenure at MOLOCO (out of 800+ employees)
APAC
Global Reach
10+

Commerce Media Deals Closed

GS Shop
오늘의집
요기요
SSG.com
CJ올리브영
컬리
CJ온스타일
배달의민족
W Concept
29CM
Trenbe

Experience

Career journey
across industries.

MOLOCO

MOLOCO

Senior Director, Business Development

Jul 2020 — Present
  • Founding member of Moloco Commerce Media — built the business from the ground up, revolutionizing e-commerce advertising with an LLM-based personalization engine
  • Closed 15 commerce media deals in Korea — accounting for over 50% of the total client portfolio — establishing MOLOCO as the dominant player in the Korean retail media market
  • Delivered thought leadership at major conferences including DMS (Digital Marketing Summit) and Max Summit, leading multiple sessions on the future of retail media

Senior Director, Product Management

Nov 2016 — Jun 2021
  • Joined as MOLOCO's first Product Manager, scaling the business through ad product development, publisher network expansion, partnership management, advertiser sales, and PR/Marketing
  • Led product feature planning and UX/UI design for the official launch of Moloco Cloud (predecessor of Moloco Ads), a self-serve AI-powered DSP
  • Planned and launched the Wemakeprice AMP ad platform — Commerce Media's first pilot project
Pikicast

Pikicast

Head of Ad Business

May 2015 — Nov 2016

Monetization Strategy Planning

  • Lead formulating and executing monetization strategy, focused on advertising for mobile contents platform 'Pikicast'
  • Building and developing ad platform, serving mobile/native advertising product
NAVER

NAVER

Product Manager

Aug 2011 — May 2015

DA(Display Ad) Product Planning

  • Planned and implemented the development of new products, such as mobile, video and display ad
  • Planned and drived enhancement for display ad platform of 'naver.com'
TBWA Korea

TBWA Korea

Account Executive

Mar 2009 — Aug 2011

Account Service Division

  • Responsible for planning and managing ₩8+ billion advertising budget in accounts
  • Collaborated with clients to design effective marketing campaigns, throughout on/offline media
  • Consulted with clients to determine communication goals and objectives and provided innovative solutions that met or exceeded client's expectations
  • Developed marketing campaigns with top clients including Daum Communications, CJ Cheil-jedang, CJ Entertainment and CJ Media

Brand Marketing Consultant

Jan 2008 — Mar 2009

Brand Marketing Consulting Division

  • Planned brand comm. strategy for several clients, including SK Telecom, ADIDAS, SK Broadband, and KT&G
  • Designed and executed various kind of research for analyzing brand performance
Google

Google

Intern

Mar 2007 — Apr 2007

Marketing Team

  • Supported organizing '2007 Google Korea CMO Summit'
  • Analyzed each product of Google and produced marketing materials
McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company

Research Assistant

Apr 2005 — Sep 2005
  • Researched and analyzed quantitative data for consulting projects
  • Produced slides on consulting reports
Hansol Telecom

Hansol Telecom

System Engineer

Nov 2001 — Mar 2004

System Management Division

  • Managed web based internal communication portal system of Hansol group served by HPUX
  • Developed add-on web services for portal system using PHP
  • Conducted sales of enterprise IT devices: middle server, network equipment

Education

Foundation
built on leadership.

SKKU

Sungkyunkwan University

SKKU

BBA, Business Administration

S-ONE

Founded S-ONE

Academic club for business strategy

AIESEC

President of AIESEC

International leadership organization

Contact

Let's connect.

Interested in discussing partnerships, opportunities, or the future of AdTech and commerce media.

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