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Minhee Y.

Minhee Y.

Creative Strategist for DTC Brands | Senior Fashion Designer

I'm a DTC creative strategist, backed by 7+ years as a senior commercial fashion designer. I know both what makes a product sell and what makes a person stop scrolling. Creative strategy • Ad concepts, UGC briefs, and full funnel content frameworks grounded in consumer psychology: emotional mapping, funnel stage targeting, and hook strategy • Brief across formats: static, UGC, and AI generated UGC video • End to end ownership: research, angle development, briefing, media buying, and analysis • Experience across footwear, activewear, and health and wellness DTC brands Selected results • Built and run the full paid creative and testing system for a DTC footwear brand's relaunch, from scratch • Produced top performing creative reaching a 15.5% click through rate, roughly 10x the apparel benchmark, at a $0.44 cost per click • Drove the relaunch's first full price, no discount sales on cold traffic • Briefed hundreds of ad concepts and test sprints across activewear and wellness brands • Spec portfolio of teardowns and redesigns of live DTC ads From 7+ years in fashion • Designed commercial collections for major US and Australian retailers (Target, Walmart, Kohl's, Kmart AU), multi million dollar DTC brands, and private label • Led design from concept to buy review, presented seasonal lines in buyer meetings, planned assortments through trend research • A trained eye for why a product reads premium or cheap, and what a specific customer will choose and why Tools: Meta Ads Manager, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, Klaviyo certified Education: BA in Fashion Industry, Ewha Womans University If you want both commercial product sense and scroll stopping creative, shoot me a message! :)

🇺🇸Los Angeles, United States$50/hr40% JSS5.00 (1)Since Apr 2020

Earnings and projects

MRR
$782

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#58,920 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#9,291 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$1.4k

Last 6 months: $4.7k

World#30,698 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#5,282 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$4.9k

Billed in all: $5.2k

World#256,088 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#40,274 / 62.1k
Per project
$1.6k

$2.3k in the last 6 months

World#89,312 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#15,066 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
2
50% fixed50% hourly
World#88,922 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#11,762 / 62.1k
Projects in all
3
67% fixed33% hourly
World#304,143 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#44,018 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$5.2k+$1.4k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$3k$4k$5k$6kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Skill rankings: Top 10% in Copywriting

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

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  2. #17Fashion Pre-Production99 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #8Top 17%
  3. #32CLO 3D262 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #8Top 12%
  4. #34Fashion Consultation218 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #11Top 16%
  5. #48Fashion Illustration412 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #8Top 12%
  6. #75Tech Pack500 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #24Top 15%
  7. #111Advertising Strategy500 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #32Top 22%
  8. #118Fashion & Apparel844 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #27Top 14%