Patricia Bayona Bultó

Product & Design Leader

Building product systems from scratch — with a business degree, a founder's P&L instinct, and a researcher's understanding of users. I connect strategy, design and technology into products that actually ship.

LINK Mobility

VP of UX & Product Manager

2021 – Present

Oslo-listed CPaaS · ~700 employees · 18 countries · NOK 7bn revenue · 50,000+ customers · 20bn+ messages/year

Promoted to VP of UX in 2022 · one year after joining · whilst retaining full PM responsibilities

Product Manager — MyLINK Portal

  • Defined the long-term product vision through a founding Blueprint that unified strategy across 50+ legacy products — still the organisation's north star reference today.
  • Launched MyLINK Portal in 6 European markets reaching 12,900+ unique users, 8min 41s average session and 14% bounce rate.
  • Designed a soft migration strategy that sunset 10+ legacy products with 91–100% completion rates in Nordic markets.
  • Defined go-to-market playbooks for each market, training sales, support and product teams across countries and time zones.
  • Managed full roadmap prioritisation, sprint planning and stakeholder communication up to C-1 level.

VP of UX — Group

  • Built and scaled the UX team (up to 5 people across Macedonia, Germany and Norway); managed hiring, performance reviews and offsites.
  • Designed and maintained the company-wide design system in Figma, adopted across multiple product teams.
  • Created the UX Operating Model — defining how research, design, validation and delivery work together across PM, Tech and UX.
  • Led UX research across SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, Email, Viber and Multichannel products; coached PMs on research methods.
  • Founded and led an internal AI Learning Hub with structured curriculum across three tracks.
  • Led the beta launch of an AI-assisted message composer feature in collaboration with an external AI partner.

Alqua

Co-Founder & COO

2017 – 2021

MarTech & Big Data firm · Alqua Cloud (proprietary Social Media & intelligence SaaS) + Alqua Digital (consulting) · clients incl. Mercedes-Benz, Santander, Danone, Unilever, AVIS, BBC

  • Defined and executed the product strategy for Alqua Cloud from MVP through multiple iterations over 4 years.
  • Scaled the platform database from 5,000 to 7 million property listings, managing the full product, operations and commercial cycle.
  • Conducted 300+ user interviews across 4 years; translated qualitative insights into iterations that drove 80% customer retention.
  • Grew the company from 2 to 40+ direct employees across product, engineering, sales and customer success.
  • Managed full P&L, cashflow and financial reporting across two business divisions.
  • Raised 2M€+ in capital across multiple rounds including ENISA, ICO and private investors.
  • Executed a full strategic pivot during COVID-19 — transitioning the tech team to consulting and redesigning the product for new market conditions.

Sybilla

Intern — Strategy & Product Launching

May – Sep 2015

National Award of Fashion 2015 · Retail industry

Roadmapping · Prioritisation · Sprint Planning · OKRs · QBRs · Go-to-Market · Stakeholder Management

User Interviews · Double Diamond · Figma · Prototyping · Usability Testing · Data Analytics

Jira · Confluence · Hotjar · Plausible · Google Analytics · Notion · Miro

HTML · CSS · MySQL · PHP (functional) · API concepts · CPaaS architecture

ChatGPT · Claude · Notion AI · AI-assisted research synthesis · AI for requirements, communication & team development

P&L Management · Fundraising · Agile / Scrum / Kanban · Cross-cultural Team Leadership

2016 – 2017

Master in International Management (MIM)

ESSEC Business School + Universidad Pontificia de Comillas

Ranked #3 in class · Pursued in English

2012 – 2016

B.A., Business Administration (E-2)

Comillas — ICADE Business School

Financial specialisation · Exchange semester at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), 2014

1999 – 2012

Bilingual Education

Kensington School

SpanishNative
EnglishProficient — Cambridge CPE (C) · TOEFL 91
FrenchIntermediate — DELF B1

Abstract painter with an independent online art business · Startup advisor (Borkenleg.com) · Kitesurfer based in Southern Spain.

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