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]

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