Headline

Visual Designer @Birdeye | Leading Design Systems — built 800+ component system, cut handoff ~40% | AI design workflows (Claude × Figma MCP) | Ex-Onething | SaaS UX

About

I'm a designer with 7+ years across SaaS products, design systems, and visual design & currently at Birdeye, where my title says Visual Designer but my work says something bigger. I built Birdeye's design system, Canary, from scratch: 800+ components across web and mobile, with tokens, documentation, and governance modeled on systems like Atlaskit and IBM Carbon. It cut our design-to-dev handoff time by roughly 40–50% and became the foundation the whole design team ships on. More recently, I've been building at the intersection of AI and design. I created PSS (Product Screen System) — an AI agent that connects Claude to Figma via MCP and generates production-ready screens from prompts. What used to take hours now takes minutes. I believe workflows like this are where product design is heading, and I'd rather build them than wait for them. Before Birdeye, I designed for brands like boAt, Masters' Union, and HDFC Securities at Onething Design Studio, and for SBI, NPCI, and Bajaj Finserv at Techved, high-scale products used by millions across fintech and consumer apps. Outside work, I run Design & Beyond, a YouTube channel where I talk about design careers, workflows, and AI tools for designers. What I'm looking for: senior product design and design systems roles where systems thinking and AI-native workflows actually matter. 📩 surajkumar.design@gmail.com 🔗 surajdesignn.webflow.io

Location

Jaipur

AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

midjourney

notion

openai

Work experience

Visual Designer at Birdeye, Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos, Palo Alto, CA, Built Birdeye's design system "Canary" from scratch to 800+ components across web and mobile, now used by web and mobile designers and engineering teams. Reduced design-to-dev handoff time by ~40–50% through tokenized components, documentation, and structured Figma libraries. Created PSS (Product Screen System) — an AI agent connecting Claude to Figma via MCP that generates production-ready screens from prompts, cutting screen creation time from hours to minutes. Audited Atlassian's Atlaskit and IBM Carbon to define the system's architecture, naming conventions, and governance model. Designed ABM landing pages for enterprise accounts (incl. Pacific Dental Services across 12 strategic accounts) and event experiences like Tecovas, a Nasdaq Tower-featured awards program. Partner cross-functionally with engineering, motion, PMM, and Marketing & Web teams to ship consistent, high-velocity product UI.

Visual designer II at Onething Design Studio, Dec 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurugram, Designed end-to-end digital experiences for clients including boAt (Crest app), Masters' Union, Capri Loans, and HDFC Securities Owned visual design from concept to developer handoff across web and mobile in a fast-paced agency environment Presented work directly to client stakeholders and iterated based on business + brand goals.

Sr. Associate Visual Designer at TECHVED Consulting, Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr, Mumbai, Delivered UI/UX and visual design for BFSI clients, including SBI, NPCI, and Bajaj Finserv Worked on high-scale consumer-facing products serving millions of users in banking and payments Grew from Visual Designer to Sr. Associate in 15 months, taking ownership of complete design deliverables

Motion Designer at Design Sundays, Oct 2021 - Jan 2022 · 4 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Visual Designer at TECHVED Consulting, Oct 2020 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

UX/UI Designer at Insight, Jun 2020 - Aug 2020 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Redesigned key flows of the Insight application during a 3-month UX internship — my first hands-on product design experience, covering research, wireframing, and visual design.

Education

Design, Graphic & Web design, arena animation

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Poornima Group of Institutions

Public links

youtube.com: https://youtube.com/@designxproductivity?si=wVyPb69USK8rhmzb