I’m Saeyoon Jeong.
Product owner/Manager, Writer, Editor, and (hard-core) gamer at Seoul.
Always having been that kid at the school reading too many books and newspapers, in my earlier days, I thought I would become a journalist someday. I majored Journalism and Cultural anthropology to do so. However, instead of joining a media company, I made one. After working at Dable to make a publishing platform for digital native media for a year, I joined Watcha as a product manager.
Wavve
JAN 2023 - Aug 2023,
product Manager
Contet Wavve is a leading OTT(over-the-top) company in South Korea, with 4 million + subscribers.
52g(open innovation gs)
sept 2022 - jan 2023
product owner
52g is a CoE in GS group. 52g aims to solve problems from the field, applying design thinking process. As product owner, I focus on coaching product managers and project management.
Watcha
May 2021 - aug 2022,
product manager
Watcha is a tech-based content platform company. Watcha runs <Watcha>, an OTT with 80k+ content, and <Watchapedia>, a content recommendation platform.
Dable
May 2020 – March 2021,
product owner
Dable is a content discovery platform company providing its service in multiple Asian countries. With its powerful personalization, machine learning, and auto-optimization technology, Dable is generating over 22 billion impressions a month in Asia. I joined Dable as a product owner of zet team. I’m currently running a new project to launch a backbone office for digital native media.
Pinch
2016 - 2020,
co-founder, editor in chief/ product owner
Pinch is a vertical pay-walled media for millennial women in South Korea, serviced in Korean. As co-founder, editor-in-chief, and CEO of Pinch, I constantly pushed boundaries of pay-walled content and content membership business in South Korea. Our team brought quality content with highly pleasing user experience to generate meaningful revenue from the content itself, not from advertising.
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what I love to do
I play all sorts of games. I collect games in Steam. I play FF14 at South Korean server. I have several board games at home. My favorite game title of all time would be Civilization series. I also enjoy watching e-sports league. I have been a long fan of LCK(a South Korean league division of LOL Esports). Everyone loves Faker of course, but my personal favorite is Deft. (Congrats on his Worlds win, finally, about the time.)
I like using precise words at proper place. I think the main task of product owner (or whatever you may name this roll) is to communicate seamlessly with multiple professionals handling different area of a project. Thus, I do like to study terms and concepts of every field that I should know, but do not like to decorate my thoughts with fancy jargon. Ideas and plans should be easy to understand. That’s why I titled my blog as <Universal Language(보통의 언어)>.