
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
Skills
What I bring
to the table
Sales & GTM
Industry
Technical
Tools
Education
Foundation
built on leadership.
Sungkyunkwan University
SKKU
BBA, Business Administration

Founded S-ONE
Academic club for business strategy

President of AIESEC SKKU
International leadership organization
Interests
Things that keep me
inspired outside of work
Vibe Coding
Contact
Let's connect.
Interested in discussing partnerships, opportunities, or the future of AdTech and commerce media.
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