Summary
Sam Claridge is a Senior Product Designer with over a decade of hands-on experience leading product and design teams across startups, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations. He has led product strategy and execution at My Well Ministry and now shapes user experiences at Apploi, bringing a mix of UX leadership, product ownership, and practical UI implementation. Sam founded and scaled consumer-facing products (Vybe) and a design studio (BRDDG), giving him an entrepreneurial lens for building delightful, business-focused solutions. His work has driven measurable outcomes—such as speeding donor flows to under 10 seconds and increasing giving—while also growing digital learning platforms to tens of thousands of subscribers. Trained originally in psychiatric nursing and later in data visualization, he blends human-centered empathy with data-informed design decisions. Based in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson area, he pairs creative craft with operational rigor to turn complex problems into simple, usable products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing, Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing at University of Northampton
Certificate, Data Visualization, Certificate, Data Visualization at The New School
Music, Music at Bethel School Of Ministry