Hi, I’m Sam Branch. I craft identities for companies in their growth era. I specialize in brand systems, visual identity design, and launch campaigns that fuel conversions. I love shaping cohesive creative directions that scale across ads, landing pages, and product experiences. I enjoy collaborating across disciplines—design, product, content, and engineering—to turn ideas into cohesive campaigns and delightful experiences. I also mentor teammates through office hours and structured brainstorms to surface the best ideas for campaign art direction.

Sam Branch

Hi, I’m Sam Branch. I craft identities for companies in their growth era. I specialize in brand systems, visual identity design, and launch campaigns that fuel conversions. I love shaping cohesive creative directions that scale across ads, landing pages, and product experiences. I enjoy collaborating across disciplines—design, product, content, and engineering—to turn ideas into cohesive campaigns and delightful experiences. I also mentor teammates through office hours and structured brainstorms to surface the best ideas for campaign art direction.

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Hi, I’m Sam Branch. I craft identities for companies in their growth era. I specialize in brand systems, visual identity design, and launch campaigns that fuel conversions. I love shaping cohesive creative directions that scale across ads, landing pages, and product experiences.

I enjoy collaborating across disciplines—design, product, content, and engineering—to turn ideas into cohesive campaigns and delightful experiences. I also mentor teammates through office hours and structured brainstorms to surface the best ideas for campaign art direction.

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Work Experience

Senior Brand Designer at MasterClass
September 1, 2024 - October 1, 2025
Launched visual identities & campaigns for two new AI products: MasterClass On Call & MasterClass Certificates; led launch campaigns. Facilitated conversion page redesign to align with paid ads. Restructured lower funnel ad pipeline with a scalable Figma template, reducing errors by 90% and freeing the core team for upper-funnel creative. Hosted office hours to share software skills, resolve cross-functional disputes, and brainstorm campaign art direction.
Brand Designer at MasterClass
March 1, 2022 - September 1, 2024
Art directed and designed 6 course launch campaigns; co-authored a brand color refresh; created a Figma library for fast photo indexing; authored a creative pipeline template to standardize course launches from creative direction through final delivery.
Presentation Designer at MasterClass
August 1, 2021 - March 1, 2022
Created presentation template ecosystem for multiple teams; designed a company-wide keynote in collaboration with the CMO and ECD to communicate a shift in brand strategy.
Marketing Designer at Knotch Marketing
December 1, 2019 - July 1, 2021
Led design for virtual conference visual identity (Insight 2021); designed multiple product launch campaigns across email, landing pages, and product videos; evolved brand guidelines and marketing design systems.
Designer at Big Idea Advertising
March 1, 2016 - August 1, 2018
Developed print/digital campaigns, identity design, data visualization and photography for clients in real estate, education, tech, and law.

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Media & Entertainment, Education, Software & Internet, Professional Services