01 — CONTACT

Jiho Kim

Engineering & Business student @SNU

Jiho Kim

02 — Experience

Professional Experience

Cigro Inc.

CEO Staff · Full-time

Jul 2025 – Jan 2026

AI Workflow Automation & Tooling

  • Spearheaded 0 to 1 development of reusable AI workflow systems (Cursor, Claude Skills, generative AI-driven rapid prototyping) grounded in hands-on PM experience
  • Developed custom build_FE workflow via prompt-engineered automation — cutting frontend planning time by ~50% and enabling rapid prototyping at PM level
  • Created LLM-assisted Kanban tool with AI coding agents to automate ERD generation and system visualization — reducing workload from ~20 hrs to ~2 hrs (~90%)
  • Built end-to-end planning → frontend development → client feedback loop using Claude Skills, reducing a 6-week design+dev cycle to 3 weeks

System Design & Internal Tooling (0 to 1)

  • Architected internal ERP/project management system (Nexus OS) from scratch — interviewed stakeholders across all roles to define workflows, then owned planning, UI/UX design, and frontend development end-to-end
  • Defined access control policies and data flows in direct collaboration with the CEO

Client-Facing PM Leadership

  • Served as primary client-facing PM on 4+ B2B, B2C products — including Nextip (AI chatbot-based patent platform, FE: React/Vercel, BE: Python/AWS) — working directly with clients to define product scope, translate business needs into technical specs, and resolve cross-stakeholder conflicts
  • Conducted daily QA on deployed services (Vercel/AWS) and coordinated directly with frontend/backend engineers to ship on deadline; owned UI/UX design enabling faster client alignment without design handoff bottlenecks
  • Rescued a stalled project (Fullty) just 1 week before deadline by re-scoping requirements with the client, securing a timeline extension, and successfully delivering the product within 3–4 weeks
  • Led 7-person PM & Designer intern team supervising 7 concurrent projects
  • Coordinated cross-border operations during a 2-week Vietnam business trip, bridging Korean and Vietnamese teams

MUKU

AI Blockchain Music Startup · Research · Part-time

Mar 2025 – Jun 2025

  • Participated at Token 2025 Dubai — PR and global networking with investors and industry professionals
  • Researched AI-driven music generation models and blockchain-based copyright management systems

Best Sleep

CEO Staff · Intern

Dec 2024 – Jan 2025

  • Proposed strategies to improve operational efficiency of offline showrooms; developed staff training manual and store interior enhancement plan

Mobile Order Service Startup

Co-founder & Project Manager

Aug 2023 – Mar 2024

  • Co-founded and shipped a mobile ordering service from 0 to 1 — led product design, POS UI, wireframing, and co-authored IR materials

Extracurricular Activities

SNU Business Strategy Association N-CEO

CSO · Team Member

Sep 2024 – Dec 2025

CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) · Jul 2025 – Dec 2025

  • Led internal strategy sessions on AI/Cloud-driven network infrastructure trends (SK Telecom global competitiveness)
  • Initiated and led industry–academic collaboration with SAMG Entertainment
  • Designed consulting-style case interviews and guesstimation assessments for internal recruiting

Team Member · Sep 2024 – Jun 2025

  • Conducted market research and proposed data-driven growth strategies across 8+ industries (semiconductor, e-commerce, smart factory, airline, insurance etc.)
  • Collaborated on consulting-style projects with Samsung Electronics, S-OIL, KEIC, KB Insurance, AMOREPACIFIC, KRAFTON, and BA Partners (VC)
  • Best Output Award — KEI-Consulting and Samsung Electronics projects

Zero-Click Era AEO Optimization Project

SPECTER × University Associations (Team: SNU N-CEO)

Dec 2025 – Feb 2026

  • Designed AEO research direction, and produced the final report and presentation
  • Automated an AI-assisted content workflow that achieved verified answer-engine citation exposure

SNU CEE Student Council

Vice President

Jan 2025 – Dec 2025

Other Activities

TUM Science Hackathon

Jun 2026

SNU CEE Student Band CEENUS

Sep 2023 – Dec 2024

SNU CEE Trilateral Student Activity — SNU, University of Tokyo, National Taiwan University

Aug 2024

2nd OUTTA AI Boot Camp

Aug 2024

03 — Education

Education

Seoul National University

Mar 2023 – Present

  • B.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering | Double Major: Business Administration | Interdisciplinary: Entrepreneurship
  • GPA 3.76 / 4.3
  • Park Joon Bum Leadership Scholarship (1st & 2nd semester, 2025)
  • SNU Academic Scholarship 70% (1st sem 2024), 60% (2nd sem 2024), Merit-based (2nd sem 2023)
  • Vice President, CEE Student Council (2025)

Technical University of Munich

Apr 2026 – Present

  • Exchange Student · School of Management and Technology

King's College London

Jul 2023

  • Summer Exchange Student

Hansung Science High School

Mar 2021 – Feb 2023

  • Graduated 1 year early (top 10%)
  • Executive Committee, Student Council

Honors & Awards

  • Silver Medal, KOI (Korean Olympiad in Informatics) 2019
  • Top Prize, SW Creative Thinking Olympiad 2018
  • Encouragement Award, KMO (Korean Mathematics Olympiad) 2018

04 — Skills

Skills

Programming

  • C / C++
  • Python (pandas, numpy, matplotlib)
  • R

AI & Deployment

  • Cursor
  • Claude
  • LLM-based workflow automation
  • AI agent design
  • Vercel
  • AWS
  • GitHub
  • Supabase

Engineering & Design

  • AutoCAD
  • Revit
  • Figma (UI/UX design, prototyping)

Languages

  • Korean — Native
  • English — C1 (TOEFL 99 / TEPS 381)