Hi, I’m Michelle Chiu


Senior product designer at PayPal, freelance design lead with 8 YoE, and beauty/fashion events 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
Cartier x RedBoxMe Invited Community Member [Link]
Design Nation Conference Selected Attendee [Link]
EDGE NYFW Content Studio Manager [Link]
Emboldly (Nonprofit) 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]
Interior New York Fashion Week Intern [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+ views) [Link]
Mejuri Brand Ambassador (4 yrs) [Link]
Mercury Spheres Scholarship Recipient [Link]
Monday Girl Social Club Community Member [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)
Brandon Maxwell (stand-in model)
Bureau Betak (stand-in model)
Carolina Herrera (stand-in model, holiday event attendee)
Columbia Business School RLG Org (summit attendee)
Delvaux (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)
Tory Burch (stand-in model)
True Beauty Ventures (event attendee)
Vogue Club (invited event attendee)