Sónia Gomes

Sónia Gomes

Product Strategist & Designer · Founder, Close to the Sun

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Sónia Gomes will make you the product voice your team trusts

Sónia Gomes is a product strategist and designer with 20+ years in product design, design leadership and teaching. She has been Head of UX at Prozis, UX Manager at OutSystems and Principal Product Designer at Uphold, with deep experience in technology companies with strong engineering cultures. She is an invited lecturer at FEUP (University of Porto) and Porto Business School, and the founder of Close to the Sun, a product strategy and design practice, and Wingmaker, her learning programmes. Her talks Build Faster. Learn Sooner. and Speed Is Not a Strategy explore how teams decide what deserves their commitment now that AI makes building cheap.

Previously at
Uphold
OutSystems
Namecheap.com
Yoox Net-a-Porter Group