Jiyeon Kang, Culture and Community Manager at Radnode on Influential Women

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Jiyeon Kang

Culture and Community Manager at Radnode, Twilio

New York, NY

11Years experience

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Degree MBA at Duke University Class of 2024 concentration in decision science and marketing Degree Bachelor's in English Language and Literature and Business from Ewha Women's University in Seoul South Korea Member Organizer of Beijuice (Korean professional network in Bay Area)

Her Story

About Jiyeon

Jiyeon Kang serves as Culture and Community Manager at Radnode, a role she has held for two and a half months. In this position, she handles program marketing and builds community initiatives to foster loyalty and advocacy. Kang has worked in the tech startup industry since 2017 on a full-time basis, with her professional journey beginning through an internship in 2015. She earned her MBA from Duke University in the Class of 2024, concentrating in decision science and marketing. Prior to that, she obtained a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature and Business from Ewha Women's University in Seoul, South Korea, in 2017. Kang previously organized Beijuice, a Korean professional network in the Bay Area, where she hosted networking events, lectures, and workshops for women. She has also volunteered with a nonprofit in Korea supporting teenage moms. Kang attributes her success to knowing what she wants and does not want, learning from connections with family and friends, and maintaining curiosity. She values staying curious and pursuing goal-oriented opportunities with specific deadlines.

Her Interview

Ten minutes with Jiyeon

01What do you attribute your success to?

I know what I want at the same time I know what I do not want. The second is basically everybody that I have connection including my family and friends because every time I talk to someone I learn a lot from their experience or sometimes opposite opinions I learn from their perspective. And the last one is my curiosity.

02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?

The best career advice is actually given by my dad because he was in corporate work for over 35 years. The first thing is like say hi to everybody you meet in the office. And the second is try to be take the initiative as much as possible. And the last advice is even though you feel like this kind of work it seems to be very small and doesn't really have any effect nobody knows so just try best everything even though that's really administrative and there feels like small. It off and then try to make it systemized.

03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?

It's knowing what you like and also I think the more important is knowing what you dislike which can be a deal-breaker or red flag for your career because we'll have to work the same thing at least 8 hours per day. And if that does not make you happy and if that does not make you feel accomplished or like if you cannot find any like close opportunity that means you don't like that job. So but there's a lot of like different like levels of like this job. Like I don't like Just drop But you I can handle it. You can definitely like develop your skills in that area. But like for example the job you cannot do at all You'll be you'll not be able to decide successful about in the in that industry in the job so what I cannot do at all in the future even though I put so much effort like and then delete them from your like future opportunities list. And then like After delivering those kind of leads and then you will have some kind of list that you can't handle even though you don't really you don't you don't have to 100% love your job but like If it is like 55% 65% think you love that job and you can handle it Definitely there' a lot of growth opportunities by you dealing with.

04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?

I think there are just like too many services been launching these days but like Getting the Usability across the market across the target audience is getting really hard. Cause You just don't really know whether this app is built on genuinely genuinely my vision and mission Or just built just for the money to get some money to advertise money or like the experiments for the AI. So As a consumer customer also as kind of builder from tech startup like I think it's scheduled I mean be genuine and be known is getting harder and harder. I think everything is opportunity because even though there's a really small pain point from Wherever you can find in your real life You can pick them up And then you can just like make some bycoding and then make some like kind of little bit of this discussion with your like future customer base you can just start from the beginning. You can start well I can say like the biggest chance of in this tech industry is like whatever idea Huh? You can' Let me start from a really small idea and then you can actually scale up in the journey. You don't have to spend so much time to do the market research to get the resources Like with the like with some tools and with some of the great ideas like you can just start and the test And then if they Anything else you can always Come back with your learnings.

05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?

Keep me curious. In my Personal life In my professional life Yeah. And grossly opportunity so that I can always have another goal to achieve because I am kind of goal-oriented person so if I have Specifically and specific deadline I feel most energized I feel really happy by accomplishing the step-by-step goals.

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