Andrey

Andrey Sundiev

Sundiev

Design leader

I've been leading teams and driving change at organisations of various scale for over 12 years. Currently overseeing Product and Marketing Design at Beamery.

Why me

Integrated GenAI prototyping into the Product & Design workflows with 100% adoption. Built proof-of-concept prototypes to enable early customer validation for Sales. Initiated the work on the AI-first design system.

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Work

Spearheading the AI-first design transformation

Spearheading the AI-first design transformation

2025
Head of Design / Design Director
Setting up the design team for success and achieving 2x increase in productivity

Setting up the design team for success and achieving 2x increase in productivity

2023-2024
Design Manager
Facilitating consistent design process and smooth handover

Facilitating consistent design process and smooth handover

2023
Design Manager
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E X P E R I E N C E

Overseeing Product Design and Marketing Design functions. Spearheading the AI-first transformation of the EPD department. Developing and propagating Product & Design strategy as a part of the Senior Leadership Team.

  • Inspired an active phase of work on the company's flagship conversational AI product.
  • Established design review process that de-risked the fast-paced design discovery and provided more transparency to the leadership.
  • Rebuilt Marketing Design as a lean, high-impact function, driving higher engagement and lead generation while cutting spend on critical assets. The team's customer satisfaction was boosted by +16% YoY (CSAT: 92%) and eNPS by +8% (eNPS: 92).
  • Contributed to 6x increase in deal close rate and 2x increase in deal size by enabling Sales with templates and automations.
  • Saved more than 33,845 engineering hours (~£5m in savings) to the business over 1.5 years by leading the implementation of a company-wide design system.
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Articles & talks

Inspect & Reflect Wise com's Design System

Inspect & Reflect Wise com's Design System

Exploring Wise.com's Design System implementation alongside a group of industry professionals

Webinar
Design Systems and the Volatile Economy

Design Systems and the Volatile Economy

An honest conversation about the life of design systems and design ops specialists in the current economic environment. Challenges, hopes and nuggets of advice from the past 8 years in this field.

Podcast
Building the design system as you fly it

Building the design system as you fly it

I shared how new challenges forced me to become more flexible and pragmatic whilst abandoning some of the old mental models.

Talk
Design direction as a step before design system

Design direction as a step before design system

Long-lasting design systems need solid foundations. Sometimes this requires taking a step back.

Article
Tool tips: How our design team switched to Figma

Tool tips: How our design team switched to Figma

It's increasingly clear that the tools we use shape the work we do in all sorts of ways, so picking the right tool for your task is absolutely critical.

Article
Working as a designer in a foreign language

Working as a designer in a foreign language

The design industry speaks English. The articles we read, the tools we use, the conferences we attend: we all speak the same language when it comes to design.

Article