Hojung Kim Email & Phone Number

Seoul, Kr

Seoul, South Korea

• Building and leading a Product & Design team at Paywatch, a fintech startup on a mission to provide all workers with opportunities to lead a healthy financial lifestyle through the earned wage access service• Responsible for understanding pain points, desires and needs of gig workers (main target user group) to improve user experience of Paywatch service• Taking all steps in the UX design process — user research, information architecture, storyboarding,wireframing, UI design, prototyping and user testing• Collaborating closely with other teams such as business, marketing, development, operation and riskmanagement to achieve Paywatch's long-term vision to practice ESG management

Seoul, South Korea

• Conducted user research on Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha’s lifestyles, pain points and needs to identify opportunity areas for multi-device experience (MDE) in the context of family• Employed qualitative research methodologies such as diary study and interviews• Participated in creating use case scenarios and designing family dashboard based on the synthesised insights from the user research• Proposed the merits of “We+” concept that touches health and wellness in the context of family• Worked in parallel with San Francisco and Munich offices to gather insights from three different regions - USA, Europe and South Korea

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Established a new growing User Experience team by collaborating with a Head of User Experience (e.g., team charter, team members set-up, roles and responsibilities, objectives and key results, user research and UX design process, UX principles, ways of working, etc.)• As part of the User Experience team, conducted human centred design research at Cambridge’s leading AI startup on a mission to build a machine learning platform to help customers make better business decisions• Employed various design research methodologies such as contextual inquiry, qualitative interview, focus group, co-design workshop and usability testing to empathise with customers' behaviour, needs and requirements• Evangelised internal stakeholders about User Experience practice such as what User Experience is, why it is important, how we work, what to expect from us, and how User Experience could add value both to the company and to our customers

Seoul, South Korea

• Aligned business goals with end user’s experience of BBB healthcare products and services• Conducted user/market research and defined UX strategy to help patients with chronic diseases• UX design of BBB healthcare app and web services

Seoul, South Korea

• GUI design of mobile phones for global market (e.g., KE850 Prada, KU990 Viewty, LX260 Rumor)• UI/GUI/UX trend research, roadmap, planning, user research, strategy etc. (e.g., Scalable GUI design strategy for European market, New way interface design for TV remote controller)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Design Research

Thesis titled “Human Centred Design of Software Agent in Social Network Service Against Privacy Concerns” supervised by Professor Joseph.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Design Strategy And Innovation

Dissertation titled “Designing the User Interface as a Brand Touchpoint: Creating Brand Value Through a New Design Strategy for the Touch.

Master Of Science (Msc), Industrial Design

Dissertation titled “A Study on the Development of Earcon Prototypes for Effective Navigation in Information Architecture” supervised.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Industrial Design