
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.

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Experience
Career journey
across industries.

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
Head of Ad Business
May 2015 — Nov 2016Monetization 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
Product Manager
Aug 2011 — May 2015DA(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
Account Executive
Mar 2009 — Aug 2011Account 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 2009Brand 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
Intern
Mar 2007 — Apr 2007Marketing Team
- Supported organizing '2007 Google Korea CMO Summit'
- Analyzed each product of Google and produced marketing materials

McKinsey & Company
Research Assistant
Apr 2005 — Sep 2005- Researched and analyzed quantitative data for consulting projects
- Produced slides on consulting reports

Hansol Telecom
System Engineer
Nov 2001 — Mar 2004System 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.
Sungkyunkwan University
SKKU
BBA, Business Administration

Founded S-ONE
Academic club for business strategy

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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