The preview of Chord identity

Hi! I am Tat 👋

As a forward-thinking design lead, passionate about automations, I work closely with design, development, and data science teams to create innovative tools that leverage the latest AI technologies. Making sure users love what we create and ensuring customer success are my top priorities!

A human prototype of AI designer

A human prototype of AI designer

A human prototype of AI designer 2035

A human prototype of AI designer 2035

Used by the world's most average companies

My Story

I'm thrilled to harness the power of AI technologies, bringing over 20 years of design expertise to create groundbreaking, value-driven user experiences that push the boundaries of what's possible.

Chord - AI Data Engine for E-commerce brands. Diagram

2023 – Today

Chord logo

Chord

The Commerce Data Platform Built for Growth

As the Product Design Lead at Chord, I’m at the heart of crafting innovative experiences that blend data, design, and a dash of magic. From breathing life into new features and building ultra-flexible design systems to pioneering AI-driven visuals that turn heads. Stay tuned as we shape the future of data-driven design, one pixel at a time!

2019 – 2022

Mailchimp

Over my four-year journey at Mailchimp as a Design Automation Lead, I made impactful contributions and gained invaluable experience shaping innovative design solutions.

2017 – 2018

Sawa – AI graphic designer

In 2017, I was invited to join the core team at Sawa, a first-of-its-kind automated graphic design platform, to lead the mission of automating human design decisions. As an experienced full-stack designer with an algorithmic mindset and a passion for cutting edge technologies, I quickly realized this was my calling. Following a successful debut at Techstars, Sawa was acquired by Mailchimp in 2019. We integrated our tech into the platform as “Creative Assistant”.

The Before

10+ years in design

From childhood, I knew design was my path. With a background in Industrial Design and a Master’s in Graphic Design, I founded a design agency where I created brands, guidelines, websites, and apps—always pushing for innovation and impactful, forward-thinking solutions.

Projects by Tatiana Sukhova and VIRTUAL TEAM studio

My stack

I lead teams with a tech-savvy, AI-driven approach, empowering them to create innovative solutions across product design and marketing. My holistic vision ensures every product not only looks great but performs brilliantly, from concept to launch.

Updated 29 August 2024

Recent Projects

Fresh Out of the Creative Oven

The Preview of new website chord.co, redesigned and built in Webflow by Tatiana Sukhova

New website

Designed and developed a new website in Webflow in a record time to support the startup pivot to a Data platform.
Data Activation visual

Data Activation

Be among the first to experience seamless data integration and activation. Boost your marketing efficiency, gain deeper insights, and drive higher engagement. Request access now!
Dynamic Audiences Hub Interface

Dynamic Audiences Hub

Create and manage tailored audience segments effortlessly with our pre-built options and upcoming audience builder tools to refine your marketing strategy.
Unique AI imagery style for marketing purposes

Unique AI Imagery Style

I developed a unique AI-driven imagery style to empower our marketing team with stunning, organic visuals for blog posts, social media, e-books, and more.

Testimonials

Don't Just Take Our Word for It – Hear It from the People Who Really Matter!

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Vice President of Product, Chord

"Tat is unquestionably the most broadly gifted designer I've ever worked with. She is an exceptionally gifted systems thinker with a deeply commercial and practical approach to prioritization and iteration. Tat supported Chord through an entire website rebuild, resulting in immediate and measurable impact to our sales pipeline. She brings a critical eye and golden touch to improving artifacts as wide ranging as investor slide decks to onboarding campaigns to complex user flows within our app. Tat knows how to do A LOT with a little without compromising timelines or quality. She's an expert technologist and applies innovative tools and solutions in deeply practical ways to accelerate work and improve outcomes. Tat thinks AI-first and is an expert AI practitioner, but she never introduces it to creation or UX flows without ensuring it delivers more value than was possible without it.

Tat is a design and development powerhouse whose growth mindset, sparkling intelligence, magnetic humor, and top-tier communication and collaboration skills make her a gem any team or client would be *lucky* to partner with."
23 Aug 2024
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Michelle Quiles

Senior Product Manager, Intuit Mailchimp

"Tat is an incredible and very skilled designer, and her work ethic is unmatched. She has a passion for excellence and for creating amazing experiences for customers. She has a brilliant and innovative way of thinking. She is not only a visionary, but has a unique ability to break out extremely complex work in way that others can easily understand it. Tat is a natural thought-leader and will quickly become an MVP on any team. I highly recommend her to any company who needs an innovative and highly skilled design leader."
16 Dec 2022
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Jennifer Gibson

Senior Director of Product Development, Intuit Mailchimp

"Tatiana is an absolute rockstar who inspired me to think bigger about the technology she was developing every single time we met. She is one of those unicorns who can understand customer and business needs, as well well as the potential in the technology she's working on, to bring something amazing to life. If you have the opportunity to work with her I guarantee you'll be impressed."
10 Jan 2023
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Francis Tao

Senioor Product Manager, Mailchimp

"I began bootstrapping my startup Sawa in late 2015, and hired Tat at the end of 2016 just as we were beginning our serious build of the product. In 2017 we collected our first paying customers, were accepted to Ocean Accelerator in Cincinnati, then Techstars Atlanta, then finally acquired by Mailchimp in February 2019. We successfully integrated with Mailchimp in 2020 rebrand Creative Assistant. Intuit acquired Mailchimp November 2021, and we believe as Mailchimp's first modern acquisition we had a small part to play in the value that Intuit saw.

If I am the father of Sawa, then Tatiana would undoubtably be its mother. No other person has had a larger or more critical impact on our success. It is difficult to put Tatiana into a traditional job title box. Is she a graphic designer? UI/UX designer? Industrial and systems designer? Engineer? Inventor? Entrepreneur? Intrepreneur? Experienced agency creative? Product Manager? Project Manager? Data Science Integrator? Prototype and pitch specialist?

The honest answer is yes, all of the above. In short, Tatiana invents delightful solutions to complex problems.

Her solutions are always flexible, automated, intelligent, and scalable -- and she does whatever needs doing to drive it not just to completion but to customer satisfaction. In a world where salaries and benefits alone do not make a great product team, Tat's passion and her internal engine of innovation sparks that culture wherever she goes. Grateful to have had her as my right hand for 5 years."
12 Dec 2021
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Maya Wilson

Director of Data Science, Intuit Mailchimp

"Tatiana is one of the most versatile and valuable partners I've worked with. She does many roles well and is proactive and creative in her solutions and contributions. She has a keen eye for how to use data science for design - over 2.5 years she worked closely with my team of data scientists to build new features start to finish, from the idea generation to the model evaluation and fine tuning, to monitoring and measurement of the user experience. Tat is a gem and if you get the chance to hire her, you should!"
05 Jan 2023
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Ivan Shevchenko

Staff Software Engineer, Intuit Mailchimp

"Tat is a person, that you want to have on the team if it's setting off for building a successful Product.

She has a talent for tuning into the Why and learning the customer's Problem and then an enormous capacity for working toward the solution until it’s built.

Above all Tat is a talented Designer, and all things she creates are exclusively beautiful from visual designs to user experiences, to systems, ideas, decks and boards, and charts. Tat is very entrepreneurial and she’s a natural thought leader. For the 7 years that we worked together with Tat on the same team, I’ve seen her wearing different hats and solutioning for very different phases from early idea drafts when we first joined Sawa startup to complex integration challenges when it was acquired by Mailchimp.

Tat is a great communicator, no matter the size of the team she would always be successful in rallying people around the right problem and working out the solution, as a team."
17 Feb 2023
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