Product Marketing  ·  Go-to-Market  ·  AI Transformation

Alexis Bizalion

Open a new market. Navigate a pivot. Build a product-marketing function from the ground up — in the age of agentic AI.

For fifteen-plus years, that's the work companies have brought me in to do.

I do it in a way that's structured, transparent, and with low-ego — my bias is toward delivering well past what was asked.

Looking for a role where the product is still finding its market — or its voice. Based in Barcelona, working remote.

If you're skimming
15+ Years of international experience. Lived in 8 countries on 5 continents, worked in 5.
65 Director PMM Solution + AI Transformation Lead at Qorvo. Cross-functional team across 7 cost centers, $YYYm+ marketing-sourced funnel, leading the rollout of agentic workflows across product, marketing, and engineering.
4 Languages. Native French & English; conversational Spanish & Portuguese.
Before today: Sevenhugs (acquired by Qorvo), TokenChanger, Bikeep, Peters & May.
Segments shipped in Enterprise & Industrial Consumer IoT Personal Finance Smart City Maritime
Core skills Product Marketing (HW + SW) Go-to-Market Strategy Positioning & Messaging Product Vision Customer Discovery & Journey Mapping Developer Experience (DX) Technical Enablement New Market Entry Business Development Partnerships Pricing & Packaging Cross-functional Leadership

Selected work

[ QORVO UWB BOARD ]
2020 — Present
Qorvo
Enterprise & Industrial
Director of Product Marketing — Solution. Took UWB SAM from $XXm to $YYYm through positioning and new use-case definition. Co-authored Ultra-Wideband for Dummies.
[ SEVENHUGS SMART REMOTE ]
2018 — 2020
Sevenhugs
Consumer IoT
Head of BD & Partnerships. Built the business plan that drove the pivot to UWB IP-licensing — pipeline from zero to mid-$XXm in four months. Pivot led to the Qorvo acquisition.
[ TOKENCHANGER ]
2017 — 2018
TokenChanger
Personal Finance
CMO / Co-founder. Grew an organic community of ~33k across Telegram, Twitter, and LinkedIn on essentially zero marketing budget.
[ BIKEEP RACK ]
2016 — 2017
Bikeep
Smart City
Director BD & Partnerships. Built the US sales motion from scratch — three segments, 100+ accounts opened, national reseller network.
[ PETERS & MAY VESSEL ]
2011 — 2016
Peters & May
Maritime
APAC Hong Kong, then MD USA. Restored a closing US business unit — margin –5% to +5% in 12 months, closed the largest deal in company history.

Three chapters

2011 — 2017

The market launcher

I started my career as the person companies sent into new regions to set up shop — open the office, find the first customers, hire and train the local team, build the partner network. The work suited me. I liked starting from a blank page in an unfamiliar context.

At Peters & May I spent three years in Hong Kong opening regional offices and growing revenue from low-six figures to several million annually, then two years in Florida as Managing Director — restoring a US business unit that was effectively closing down. We closed an office, created a new vertical, restructured the team, and brought a marquee account back through a creative deal structure. By the time I left, margins had swung from –5% to +5% and the team had just closed the largest deal in the company's history.

At Bikeep, I built the US sales motion from scratch — three segments (institutional, B2B, public-tender), 100+ accounts opened, a national reseller network, and the company's biggest sale to date. I also worked alongside engineering on the MVP of a new electric-bike charger, which is when I first noticed how much more interesting the work became as I got closer to the product.

2017 — 2018

The founder year

I co-founded TokenChanger as CMO during the first crypto wave — a small team building three decentralised apps for financial products and services. We grew an organic community of about 33,000 people across Telegram, Twitter, and LinkedIn on essentially no marketing budget; it was all PR, influencer relationships, and the kind of attention-to-detail that comes from caring more than the next team.

It didn't ultimately work out. The co-founder relationship wasn't the right fit, and I stayed about three months longer than I should have. What I took from it: a visceral understanding of what zero-to-one actually demands, the rhythm of a small team Slack at two in the morning, and the conviction that walking away on principle — early, before resentment sets in — was the lesson worth the year.

2018 — Present

The product marketing operator

At Sevenhugs, I joined to scale the Best Buy launch — 1,000 stores, runway tightening. I took over market strategy and built the business plan that drove the pivot to our UWB controller stack, validated at CES 2018 with companies like Samsung, LG, Bang & Olufsen, and Sonos. Four months later, pipeline had gone from zero to mid-$XXm — what ultimately moved Qorvo to acquire us.

At Qorvo, I've spent the last five years moving from Senior Manager of Product Marketing — Software into the current Director role across hardware and software solutions. I co-authored Ultra-Wideband for Dummies, contributed to FiRa Consortium standards from 2019 to 2021, and took the UWB SAM from roughly $XXm to $YYYm through positioning and new use-case definition. The $YYYm+ marketing-sourced funnel across four product lines is the headline number.

How I work

Underneath those values, a few patterns tend to show up across every role.

The first is listening for what people don't say. Most participants in any given meeting are quietly convincing themselves of what they want to hear. The customer's silence after one of your questions is usually more important than their explicit answer to another. I spend a lot of time tracking those signals.

The second is new-market exploration. I do my best work in uncertain environments — places where customer validation is thin, hard data is scarce, and the product vision has to come from reading between the lines: a hesitation in a customer call, a shift in a competitor's roadmap, a signal in an analyst report. Those are the situations where a well-framed question, asked at the right level of abstraction, can change the whole roadmap.

The third is operating across the seam between commercial, product, and engineering. I'm not a specialist in any one of those rooms, but I'm fluent enough in all three to translate between them — which is what's needed when a product is finding its market.

Outside the work

Sailing

The through-line that has run alongside my career for as long as I can remember. I hold a Day Skipper certificate from Sunsail, a Survival at Sea certificate from the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, and a PADI Open Water — and I've raced day, night, and offshore, including multi-day passages like the Hong Kong to Philippines run (about five days at sea). Beyond the love of the sport, sailing taught me a lot about teams under pressure: a captain is a conductor, not a tyrant; trust between crew is non-negotiable; and planning matters because the consequences are real.

Travel

The other constant. I've lived in eight countries across five continents and worked in five — France, Portugal, Belgium, South Africa, Chile, Hong Kong, the US, and now Spain. Some of that was deliberate; some was opportunity I took because I'd rather be useful in an unfamiliar place than comfortable in a known one. A five-month solo backpacking trip across Asia in my twenties is probably where that disposition was cemented.

Building

Crept in more recently. Most evenings there's a small project on my desk. The two I actually use every day: a 90-Day Health Challenge tracker I built end-to-end on a Raspberry Pi 5 — Apple Health data piped in via iOS Shortcuts, a mobile-first dashboard showing an activity ring, weekly bars, and daily pacing against a 90-day calorie target — and this site, built with Claude Code. Both started from real friction, not curiosity. The same product discipline I preach professionally, applied to my own desk.

That instinct now drives the day job. I recently took the lead of Qorvo's AI Transformation Office — the program designing how the org adopts agentic workflows across product, marketing, and engineering. There's a real gap between building tools for your own desk and rolling out AI infrastructure across a global semiconductor company: rollout strategy, tool selection, governance, internal enablement, measurable productivity outcomes. The personal desk is where I pressure-test what's worth scaling.

Writing

GTM · Strategy
Your GTM Motion Has a Version Number. Do You Know What It Is?
Every product ships with a version number. Your GTM motion doesn't. The companies that grow consistently version their GTM deliberately — with the same intentionality good engineering teams bring to a major release.
ICP · GTM
The ICP You Think You Have Was Written Before You Had Any Customers
Most ICPs are written in a conference room, before a single deal is closed, by people who are mostly guessing. The problem isn't the founding hypothesis — it's that most companies never update it.
PMM · Positioning
PMM Is the Last Human Moat. And Everyone Is Fighting Over Who Owns It.
AI can write your positioning, generate your personas, and draft your launch messaging. What it can't do is hold a contested narrative together under organisational pressure — and that's exactly the job.
Innovation · Strategy
The Skunk Works Imperative: Why the Best Innovation Still Happens Outside the Building
Every large organisation eventually produces the same innovation killer. It doesn't arrive as a policy — it arrives as a meeting. Kelly Johnson figured out the fix in 1943. Most enterprises still haven't applied it.
IoT · Go-to-Market
IoT's Dirty Secret: The Solution Gap
Hardware teams ship boards, software teams ship SDKs, and nobody owns the end-to-end solution. A case for a fundamentally different GTM model.
DX · AI
AI Won't Fix Your Dev Experience — But It'll Expose Every Crack In It
AI-assisted coding tools are raising the bar for documentation and SDKs. Companies that haven't invested in DX will feel it acutely.
Product · Strategy
The Whole Product Imperative
Why most technical companies ship features but never finish the product — and what it takes to close the gap across the full customer journey.
Enablement · PMF
The Forward Deployed Engineer as a PMF Weapon
Why embedding technical enablement talent in the field — not just in the product org — is one of the fastest paths to genuine product-market fit.
Documentation · Sales
Why Your Documentation Is a Sales Problem, Not a Developer Problem
The case for treating docs, reference architectures, and integration guides as commercial assets with real ROI — not engineering afterthoughts.
Market Entry · GTM
Why the First 90 Days of Market Entry Should Be About Learning, Not Scaling
The fastest way to fail in a new market is to scale a message you haven't validated yet. A framework for compressing time-to-insight.

Projects

Published — 2022
Ultra-Wideband for Dummies
Co-authored the Wiley-published guide demystifying UWB technology for engineers, product teams, and business leaders entering the precision-location market.
UWB Technical Writing
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Leadership — Qorvo
FiRa Consortium
Active member and evangelist for the FiRa Consortium, contributing to UWB interoperability standards across mobile, automotive, and smart-home ecosystems.
Standards Ecosystem
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