Hi, I’m Michelle Chiu


Senior product designer at PayPal, freelance design lead with 8 YoE, and beauty/fashion creative strategist. Previously, I’ve designed at Coinbase, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, and partnered with brands such as Four Seasons, Marie Claire, and Mejuri. My work has reached ~3B+ users globally and contributed to ~$50M+ in funding and revenue.

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Clients/Experience: Authoritative, Alta, ARI, Axiom, Beam, BuzzFeed, Cherry Pick, Coinbase, Daimo, DoorDash, Easy Labs, Four Seasons, Frog Design, Gensmo, Instagram, Kleiner Perkins, Kodely, Marie Claire, Marie Claire Arabia, Megapot, Mejuri, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, PayPal, Peanie, Pistachio, Prism, Rarible, Rubi, Shibuya, Wish, Youvoya

Awards, Recognition, & Other Highlights:
Adobe Design Achievement Awards Recipient [Link]
Bestfolios Editor’s Pick Featured Site
Brown University PM Org Selected Guest Speaker
Calyptus Newsletter Feature (15K+ reads) [Link]
Cartier x RedBoxMe Invited Member [Link]
Design Nation Conference Selected Attendee [Link]
EDGE NYFW Content Studio Manager [Link]
Emboldly (Nonprofit) Former NYC Events Lead [Link]
Facebook GH Scholarship Recipient (1 of 25 worldwide)
Four Seasons Styling Assistant [Link]
Girls Into VC Fellow & Former Newsletter Editor [Link]
Hexagon UX Mentorship Program Selected Participant
IDEO CoLab Makeathon Selected Participant [Link]
Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program Alumni Interviewer (2x)
Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow [Link]
Marie Claire Arabia Photography Assistant [Link]
Medium Top Writer in Design (225K+ reads) [Link]
Mejuri Brand Ambassador (5 yrs) [Link]
Mercury Spheres Scholarship Recipient [Link]
Monday Girl Social Club Community Member [Link]
New York Fashion Week x Interior Intern [Link]
Rarible Ex-Editorial Writer (front-page feature [Link]
Slow Ventures Design & AI Dinner Invited Guest [Link]
TechCrunch Disrupt Scholarship Attendee [Link]
The Council Angel Investing Community Member [Link]
Unsplash Featured Photographer (5.8M+ views)
Wall of Portfolios Editor’s Pick Featured Website [Link]
Women’s Creatives Dinner Inaugural Guest [Link]

Beauty/Fashion Events, Campaigns, and Projects


My work spans content creation, editorial writing, event production, fashion styling, interior design, modeling, and photography. I’ve hosted and collaborated on projects and partnered with or attended events by the following brands:
Arête (event attendee)
bareMinerals (event partner)
Bureau Betak (stand-in model)
Carolina Herrera (invited event attendee)
Columbia Business School Retail & Luxury (summit attendee)
Delvaux (invited event attendee)
Dossier (event partner)
Four Seasons (styling assistant)
Interior (NYFW intern)
Into the Gloss (event attendee)
Ivy Swimwear (invited event attendee)
K18 Hair (event attendee)
MAC Cosmetics (event attendee)
MERIT (event attendee)
Oceanus (invited event attendee)
Pickle (invited event attendee and giveaway winner)
Pinterest (event attendee)
Poolsuite (invited event attendee)
Randi Rahm (showroom assistant)
Ralph Lauren (invited event attendee)
Roster Radio (invited event attendee)
True Beauty Ventures (event attendee)
Valentino (invited event attendee)
Vogue Club (invited event attendee)