Product Designer

About Minno

Minno is a global media and technology company based in Nashville Tennessee on a mission to help kids and families experience Jesus every day through media and technology.

Founded in 2019 Minno is building the most trusted Christian media brand for the next generation. Through our streaming platform original programming publishing and digital presence we spark childrens curiosity about God and the Bible support parents and create joyful lasting faith experiences for families worldwide.

Were a fast-growing startup powered by a mission-driven team with experience at Amazon PBS KIDS Duolingo Disney DreamWorks Animation Noggin and leading studios and startups. Our growth has placed us in the top 1% of direct-to-consumer subscription businesses and we are scaling rapidly following the close of our Series A round led by Konvoy Ventures.

Minno is a Nashville-based global media company serving Christian kids and families through:

• Minno Kids: Our flagship ad-free streaming platform experiencing triple-digit growth
• Minno Originals: Award-winning original programming including Laugh and Grow Bible for Kids and Young David
• YouTube channel: The fastest-growing Christian kids channels with triple-digit year-over-year growth
• Minno Press: Our successful publishing unit behind bestselling childrens titles including the award-winning Minno Laugh & Grow Bible for Kids.

We differentiate ourselves through creative excellence faithful curation parent partnership and a global vision that honors the diversity of the Church. Minno is a public benefit corporation and our mission fuels everything we do.

Minno uniquely differentiates itself by promising:

• Experiential Excellence: Top-tier quality that changes expectations and raises the bar for Christian content.

• Safe Entertaining Christian Content: Kid-friendly entertaining engaging age-appropriate and Biblically aligned content.

• Practical Faith Support: Resources that cultivate faith invite conversation and foster spiritual growth.

• Values the Global Church: Honoring the diversity of the global church and people as image bearers of God.

As a public benefit corporation Minno is committed to helping kids and their families experience Jesus every day through media and technology. This mission drives everything we do.

The Opportunity

Minno is hiring a Product Designer to own the end-to-end product experience for kids and families across our digital ecosystem. This person will design intuitive joyful and developmentally appropriate experiences that help children safely discover and engage with faith-based content while building trust with parents and caregivers.

This role is ideal for a product designer with strong experience designing shipped digital products for kids. The right candidate understands that child-facing UX is not simply simpler adult UX. It requires thoughtful decisions around age-appropriate navigation cognitive load safety delight accessibility parent confidence and engagement.

You will partner closely with Product Engineering Content Marketing and Research to improve core journeys (onboarding content discovery search browse playback profiles parental controls). You will help establish Minnos product design system strengthen design-to-engineering collaboration and build a product design culture grounded in real insight from kids and families.

This is not a traditional UI production role or a purely strategic leadership position. We are looking for a highly hands-on product designer who can operate as a player-coach: someone capable of bringing strong UX and product thinking while also shipping polished practical work quickly in collaboration with Product and Engineering.

Above all this person will help make Minnos digital products more cohesive trustworthy engaging and mission-aligned ensuring every interaction serves families well and helps kids experience Jesus every day.

Our Mission and Faith

Minno is a Christian company and our faith is inseparable from our work. We are building a platform to help kids and families experience Jesus every day and that conviction shapes every product decision content investment and hire we make.

We are looking for someone who is personally aligned with that mission not because it is a checkbox but because the work is more meaningful when the mission resonates. You do not need to be an expert in Christian media but you do need to genuinely care about what we are building for kids and families and see this role as more than a career move.

What You Will Do

• Own end-to-end UX and UI design for Minnos kid and family digital product experiences across web mobile tablet streaming audio and future platforms
• Design age-appropriate intuitive joyful experiences that help kids safely discover choose watch listen and engage with faith-based content
• Improve core product journeys including onboarding content discovery search browse playback profiles parental controls and subscription-related flows
• Build and maintain a scalable design system including reusable components interaction patterns responsive states accessibility standards and design documentation
• Partner closely with Product Engineering Content Marketing and Research from early problem definition through launch QA and iteration
• Translate insights from kids parents caregivers research analytics and support feedback into practical product improvements
• Create wireframes prototypes user flows high-fidelity designs interaction specs and production-ready handoff materials
• Design with safety trust accessibility privacy and parent confidence in mind especially for child-facing and family-facing experiences
• Use product data usability findings and strong design judgment to identify friction points and prioritize improvements
• Bring a proactive design point of view to Minnos product roadmap helping shape what best-in-class kids and family digital experiences should feel like

What You Will Bring

Must Have

• 5 years of UI/UX product design or interaction design experience with demonstrated growth in scope and ownership
• Strong direct experience designing shipped digital products for kids children or family audiences
• A portfolio showing end-to-end product thinking: problem definition audience research flows interaction design visual craft tradeoffs shipped work and impact
• Deep understanding of age-appropriate UX including cognitive load reading level navigation simplicity motor skills tap targets safety delight and parent trust
• Strong comfort operating in ambiguity and rapidly evolving product environments where speed iteration and product judgment matter more than rigid process
• Strong Figma skills including components variants prototyping design systems responsive states annotations and engineering handoff
• Experience designing consumer digital products across mobile web tablet streaming connected TV or similar multi-platform environments
• Ability to work closely with Product and Engineering from early concept through launch QA and iteration
• Strong visual and interaction design craft with excellent judgment around simplicity hierarchy motion feedback and brand expression
• Genuine alignment with Minnos Christian mission and enthusiasm for serving kids and families

Strongly Preferred

• Experience in kids streaming childrens media EdTech family subscription apps kids games or interactive learning products
• Experience designing for both child users and parent/caregiver users in the same product ecosystem
• Hands-on experience with streaming video audio content discovery recommendations or media playback experiences
• Experience building or maintaining a design system in a small or scaling product organization
• Experience using research usability testing product analytics A/B testing or behavioral data to prioritize and evaluate UX improvements
• Comfort designing across connected TV tablet mobile and web where interaction models differ by platform
• Familiarity with COPPA-aware privacy-conscious accessible and non-manipulative design patterns for children and families
• Comfort using AI tools to accelerate research synthesis ideation prototyping and design production while maintaining strong product judgment

Nice to Have

• Background in faith-based values-driven family or childrens media
• Illustration animation or motion design skills that strengthen child-facing product moments
• Experience with accessibility for neurodiverse children or inclusive design for different ages and abilities
• Experience with content taxonomy metadata playlists recommendations or personalized discovery
• Experience designing parental controls kids profiles household settings trust and safety surfaces or similar family product features

Our Values

• Biased towards Action: We take the initiative and make decisions quickly.
• Curious not Content: We are eager to learn and innovate.
• Grit & Resilience: We persevere and follow through on our commitments.
• Rigorous Intentionality: We pay attention to details and understand the why behind our work.
• Think like Owners: We are resourceful and take wise risks.
• Mutual Blessing: We operate generously on behalf of others.
• Trust Builders: We gain confidence through honesty integrity and authenticity.
• Adapt & Flex: We operate effectively in uncertain situations.

Location

Nashville TN preferred. Open to remote for the right candidate.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience
• Performance-based bonus
• Equity package
• Comprehensive benefits
• Professional development opportunities including key industry conferences and leadership development programs

Minno is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race color religion gender sexual orientation national origin age disability or other protected characteristics.

To apply please submit your resume and a cover letter explaining your interest in Minno and how your experience aligns with our mission and values.

Join us in building something that matters and helping millions of kids and families experience Jesus every day.