Hi, I’m Michelle Chiu


Senior product designer at PayPal & freelance design leader with 7 years of experience. Previously, I’ve designed at Coinbase, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, and for startups such as Axiom, BuzzFeed, Daimo, Gensmo, etc. My work has impacted ~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, Kodely, Marie Claire Arabia, Megapot, Mejuri, Meta Creative X, MongoDB, Peanie, Pistachio, Prism, Rarible, Rubi, Shibuya, Wish

Awards & Recognition:
Adobe Design Achievement Awards Recipient [Link]
Bestfolios Editor’s Pick Featured Site
Design Nation Conference Selected Attendee [Link]
Facebook GH Scholarship Recipient (1 of 25 worldwide)
Hexagon UX Mentorship Program Selected Participant
IDEO CoLab Makeathon Selected Participant [Link]
Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow [Link]
Medium Top Writer in Design (225K+ views) [Link]
Mercury Spheres Scholarship Recipient [Link]
Rarible Ex-Editorial Writer (front-page feature) [Link]
Unsplash Featured Photographer (5.8M+ views)

Other Highlights:
EDGE NYFW Content Studio Manager [Link]
Emboldly (Nonprofit) NYC Events Lead [Link]
Four Seasons Styling Assistant [Link]
Girls Into VC Fellow & Former Newsletter Editor [Link]
Interior New York Fashion Week Intern [Link]
Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program Alumni Interviewer (2x)
Marie Claire Arabia Photography Assistant [Link]
Mejuri Brand Ambassador (5 yrs) [Link]
Monday Girl Social Club Community Member [Link]
Slow Ventures Design & AI Dinner Invited Guest [Link]
TechCrunch Disrupt Scholarship Attendee [Link]
The Council Angel Investing Community Member [Link]

Clay (Take-Home)


Creative tool helping 100K+ people grow their businesses through data, experimentation, and automation—powering enterprises from local pizza shops to Anthropic and Notion. The team has raised a $100M Series C in 2025 at a $3.1B valuation and are backed by world-class investors like Capital G (Google), Sequoia and Meritech.

I helped the team brainstorm ideas on how users could discover, use, create, templates for AI prompts. My designs focused on how could we enable people to:
  • Learn what the Use AI column action can do via examples in the form of Clay-provided templates
  • Discover Clay-provided and custom templates that are relevant to my use cases
  • Apply a template to a column’s configuration and try it out to see if it’s generating the correct outputs
  • Update configurations after applying a template so that they could start from something close to what they want, but customize it to their specific needs
  • Save a column configuration as a custom template (either overwriting an existing template or saving it as a new template)
  • Organize saved custom templates in a way that affords easily finding custom templates in the future

Content Design
Copywriting
Interaction Design
Product Design
Web Design