Daeho Kim

Strategic Product Leadership: Executing a dual-focus product vision using ML/AI to drive listing excellence (recognition, optimization) and delivery reliability (predictive logistics), significantly improving the end-to-end seller and customer journey. Driving Business Growth: Growing revenue in Korea and Taiwan markets by deploying ML/AI strategies that ensure high-quality product listings match high-reliability delivery standards, fostering deeper marketplace trust and seller efficiency. Talent Development & Mentorship: Empowering product teams to dive deep in to the key customer and seller problems and master the application of ML/AI in diverse domains, specifically coaching on the intersection of listing optimization and delivery reliability management.

Product Management professional with 10+ years driving innovation in the marketplace, advertising, and app ecosystems. I specialize in leading cross-functional teams (Engineering, Design) to build and scale user-centric web and mobile solutions. Key product domains include: Marketplace Product (Seller Success): Owned the product strategy for enhancing the seller experience, focusing on streamlining acquisition, accelerating activation, and improving retention through data-driven product improvements. Dynamic Pricing Tools: Led the vision and execution for all marketplace pricing products, enabling sellers with dynamic and effective pricing capabilities to maximize their revenue potential and overall sales. Self-Serve Advertising & Promotions: Directed the product lifecycle for a self-service promotion tool, empowering sellers with accessible and flexible options to manage their marketing spend and amplify product visibility to drive sales.

As the first digital product hire for Juul in APAC, I spearheaded the development and launch of all regional digital products, significantly contributing to market entry and growth. Simultaneously, I co-drove the evolution of Juul's global eCommerce platform as a co-owner. My core focus areas were: B2C Product Innovation & Growth: Championed product initiatives to scale Juul's direct eCommerce sales in APAC. Innovated on the post-purchase experience, ensuring a consistent and positive journey for customers acquired through both online and traditional retail channels. B2B Platform Development: Led the charge in digitizing Juul's B2B operations in APAC by developing a comprehensive eCommerce platform for licensed retailers, simplifying order processes and improving data insights.

Leading the monetization products including advertising and value-added services. Key highlights - Launching and growing ad revenue for Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Phillipines. - Carousell Advertising platform for Direct sales (Video, banner, and native ad formats) - CPC/CPM ad products Carousell sellers - Carousell Audience management platform - Dynamic pricing of the all ad product - Led the ad serving logic including audience targeting and search ads (automatic match and keyword) - Led monetization product migration for the acquisition of Philippine OLX - Mentoring PMs to support career growth

Leading the monetization products including advertising and value-added services. Carousell is a mobile classifieds marketplace that makes selling as easy as taking a photo, buying as simple as chatting. Carousell is the top Lifestyle and Shopping app in Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and is backed by Sequoia, Rakuten Ventures, 500 Startups, Golden Gate Ventures, and QuestVC.

Responsible for the product development as well as improvement with a focus on Asia and North America Saas market. Tasked with market strategy with product development timeline. Managed 9-person team consisted of developers, researchers, and designers. • Product Management: Redesigned the product from the mobile application to natural-language-based AI email bot by providing the strategy with the detailed timeline to develop the product while maintaining the vision of the product as an enterprise solution. • Technologies: Invented the core AI/ML technologies behind the scheduling technology used by Kono (Patent #10-2016-0177106, # 10-2016-0013666) • Engineering: Developed the NLP server equipped with human supervision system to increase the accuracy of language understanding up to 99% and the long-term strategy to eliminate human supervision, resulting in 50% reduction of human involvement after 8 months of launch of the server

Aspired by the way people interact and build relationships, Voicle developed mobile software that help people to have better social life. First Project: Visual Search Engine - The idea was to convert existing data into visual graphs that can be easily recognized and understood by non-experts. The product also facilitates users to search the data based on visual graphs drawn by the users. - We used the Visual Search Engine to replace a simple star rating system on the restaurants by visually portraying more information through a 5-factor graph. Second Project: Time Recommendation - Have you ever had nightmares scheduling a simple meeting? Our vision was to automatically schedule meetings for users based on their behavior. Third Project: CliQs - Jinx! This happens when you and your friends think of the exact same thing at the same time. We developed a real time social game in iOS to find common interests and feelings within users’ 2nd degree network. Fourth Project: MoodCup - Are you happy with your life? We developed MoodCup to help keep track of users’ mood on a daily bases, to analyze mood, show personalized mood infographic, and forecast users’ mood with tips to improve their mood. - Generated 50,000 downloads within the first month since launch and was ranked within Top 25 in lifestyle category on Apple iTunes store

Undergraduate Research assistant at Rogers Group I was involved in carbon nanotube research. I explored the new process of producing highest-quality carbon nanotubes and separating semiconducting carbon nanotubes from mixture of semi/metal carbon nanotubes. My concentration was the semiconducting material fabrication and modeling. Summary of research experience ‣ Carbon nanotube research under professor John A. Rogers ‣ Managed the growth of high density aligned carbon nanotube to be used in carbon based semiconductor projects ‣ Created a new way of controlling the density of the carbon nanotube using ferritin (Undergraduate journal on 2011) ‣ Fabricated CNT MOSFET from the high density aligned carbon nanotube on quartz ‣ Analyzed the gate hysteresis based on the electrical and physical properties of CNT MOSFET ‣ Analyzed the heat dissipation on Metallic and Semiconducting carbon Nanotube ‣ Designed the laboratory setting to remove metallic carbon nanotube using heat property of carbon nanotube

My consulting experience started from providing excellent consulting report to local entrepreneur during technical business consulting class at University of Illinois as Urbana Champaign. Generally, I was involved in both engineering and IT consulting service. For engineering consulting service, I validated a new technology with the computer simulation for the potential patent filing. For IT consulting service, I provided detailed IT trend reports for Korean IT corporations. In addition to that, I have an experience of providing revised business model to local business owners to improve their daily sales. Summary of my consulting experience ‣ Illini Entrepreneurship Network Consultant - Provided technology adaptation model along with revised business models for the local businesses in order to increase the profit by 10% ‣ Business Technical Consultant - Validated Client’s new invention of shock absorbing device through computer simulation and physical modeling with statistical data - Advised the client for patent fling on the invention and provided all the documents required for the patent filing.

LumiLine was a Korea branch of Traxon technolgies. I provided the consulting service to various industries regarding LED light design and control unit for LED mood lights. Summary of my experience at LumiLine • Created several light shows using E: Cue Lighting control program • Assisted customers with purchasing LED mood lights and controllers by providing lighting simulation • Translated documents from English to Korean for customers • Assisted in solving technical problems of LED lights • Provided technological solutions by using E: Cue Lighting control program. • Worked on the Karaoke interior light project and Art project in Seoul • Helped to mediate successful business trade with Traxon Technologies • Installed LED mood lights and controller at Azu University

Electrical and Computer Engineering with focus on semicondurtors