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Curious and adaptable. Building products, experiences, and narratives to delight and empower the world.
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SOY KIM is a bridge builder. Bicultural and bilingual, Soy has a track record of launching first-in-market collaborations between the U.S. and Korea. As a marketing executive, Soy developed industry record-breaking, multi-platinum campaigns for artists including BTS, Chloe x Halle, John Legend, and Baby Keem. Today, she is Head of North America, music and podcast content strategy at YouTube. Previously, she worked across algorithmic discovery, product GTM, and industry education at Spotify. For 3 years, Soy also led global programming and partnerships to build Asian & Pacific Islander community for Spotify’s API ERG of 600+ employees. Her experience spans marketing (B2B, B2C, PMM, GTM, content); content strategy and distribution (music, film, TV); and global business strategy in the U.S. and Korea. Her work and leadership have been recognized by Variety and the 2021 Alt Power 100 Music List.

Soy believes in paying it forward. She serves as a mentor for national non-profit Asian American Collective (five cohorts), the Recording Academy’s GRAMMYU program, and YouTube’s Music & Premium product and engineering org. Soy has been invited to speak as a keynote speaker, panelist, or moderator at Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, USC Annenberg, NYU Stern, Drexel U, as well as 20+ conferences including MU:CON, SXSW, NY:LON CONNECT, Music Biz, jump.global, Country Radio Seminar to discuss: global music cultures, tech x entertainment, K-culture / K-pop / Korean diaspora, the future of digital platforms, content marketing, and leadership. She has received academic grants to conduct ethnographic research on Korean society and is a published thought leader on Asian Pacific content and culture.

Outside of music and film, Soy is a dedicated sports super fan. She believes in the power of sports to enact societal change and serves on the New York board for Street Soccer USA, a national non-profit dedicated to eradicating youth poverty through football. She holds an MBA from Yale and a BA from Harvard and is an HBS BEMS alumna.

In our saturated digital landscape, stories are shared every second. And in this landscape, we must question: what is the purpose of the increasingly ephemeral stories we share, if not to expand our collective consciousness? Connecting disparate communities, building experiences that bring delight, and championing lesser heard voices remain urgent life priorities.

ϟOY•JOURN: Soy + sojourn = I am journey-ing.

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