# Sun Lee

> Sun Lee is Laurel's chief marketing officer, a designer-turned-enterprise-software executive whose career runs from agency art direction through SurveyMonkey's 2017 rebrand and senior marketing roles at Pure Storage, Sisu, BigPanda, and Relyance AI. Born into a Korean-speaking life and arriving in the United States alone at 15, she has described learning English as an eventual marketing advantage: it trained her to simplify. At Laurel, she is applying that instinct to a larger proposition - moving the company story beyond automated timekeeping toward measuring the distinctive value of human work.

- **Role:** Chief Marketing Officer at Laurel
- **Organizations:** Laurel, Relyance AI, BigPanda, Sisu Data, Pure Storage, SurveyMonkey, Citrix, Gyaan
- **Education:** MBA, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, BFA, ArtCenter College of Design
- **Known for:** Led SurveyMonkey's 2017 global rebrand, developing visual and verbal systems intended to scale across applications, devices, languages, and cultures., Helped lead SurveyMonkey's brand through its 2018 public offering., Built Sisu Data's marketing team and helped reimagine its branding, messaging, and pricing model; a former colleague credited the team with contributing to Sisu's largest revenue quarter at the time.

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Worked on the agency side as a brand and digital designer, including art-direction roles at Celerity and Silverlign Group and later creative direction at Citrix.
- **2016-2019** — Rose through brand and marketing leadership at SurveyMonkey; led its 2017 global rebrand and participated in the company's 2018 IPO work.
- **2019-2020** — Served as vice president of global campaign, partner, and digital marketing at Pure Storage.
- **2021-2023** — Joined decision-intelligence company Sisu Data as chief marketing officer, built its marketing team, and helped rework the company's branding and messaging.
- **2023-2024** — Became chief marketing officer at BigPanda, leading marketing for the AIOps company.
- **2024-2026** — Served as chief marketing officer at Relyance AI, joining as the data-governance company announced its Series B and building a modern marketing team.
- **2026-present** — Joined Laurel as chief marketing officer on June 9, framing its opportunity as defining the value of human intelligence at work.

## Achievements

- Led SurveyMonkey's 2017 global rebrand, developing visual and verbal systems intended to scale across applications, devices, languages, and cultures.
- Helped lead SurveyMonkey's brand through its 2018 public offering.
- Built Sisu Data's marketing team and helped reimagine its branding, messaging, and pricing model; a former colleague credited the team with contributing to Sisu's largest revenue quarter at the time.
- Progressed from hands-on art direction and creative direction to chief marketing officer roles across analytics, AIOps, data governance, and time intelligence.
- Earned a BFA from ArtCenter College of Design and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
- Served as an advisor to revenue-platform company Gyaan.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Announced Laurel's expanding marketing organization and four open roles spanning field, integrated, product, and growth-engineering work.
- **2026-08** — Reunited with former SurveyMonkey collaborator Lara Belonogoff, hiring her as Laurel's senior director of brand.
- **2026-06** — Joined Laurel as chief marketing officer and said the platform's underlying data could help define the true value of human intelligence at work.
- **2026-02** — Published on AI inventory and argued that organizations cannot govern AI systems they cannot see.

## Links

- Website: https://laurel.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunsun

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Last updated: 2026-09-05