Digital and Interactive Designer

The Digital & Interactive Designer is a hands-on role focused on creating motion-rich interactive digital experiences that bring Leidos storytelling to life. This role combines interaction design animation and front-end development to deliver engaging digital narratives across websites campaigns experiential activations and customer-facing environments.

Working within the Creative Studio and in close partnership with the Interactive Design Lead Senior Digital & UX Strategist and Digital Platform Product Owner this role helps translate experience intent content and brand storytelling into polished production-ready digital experiences that are intuitive performant and scalable.

This role is ideal for a builder who enjoys shaping how content moves responds and engages users through thoughtful interaction and motion.

Responsibilities

Digital & Motion Experience Delivery

• Design and build motion-forward digital experiences for websites microsites campaigns and experiential environments.
• Create interactive storytelling experiences that combine animation transitions micro-interactions and responsive behaviors.
• Translate wireframes experience requirements and content narratives into functional interactive digital experiences.
• Partner with video and motion design teams to integrate animation video and interactive elements seamlessly into digital work.

Front-End Development & Creative Technology

• Build interactive digital experiences using modern front-end frameworks such as React or comparable technologies.
• Implement animation and motion behaviors using appropriate libraries and tools.
• Ensure digital experiences are performant accessible and responsive across devices and platforms.
• Support implementation of interactive experiences within existing digital platforms and content systems.
• Contribute technical insight during design and planning to ensure feasibility and efficient execution.

Experience Quality Reuse & Optimization

• Apply interaction patterns and motion systems defined by the Interactive Design Lead to ensure consistency and reuse.
• Identify opportunities to modularize motion and interaction components for reuse across channels and initiatives.
• Participate in testing refinement and optimization of digital experiences to improve usability and engagement.
• Document interactive patterns motion components and implementation approaches to support scalability.

Collaboration & Ways of Working

• Collaborate closely with the Interactive Design Lead to execute experience architecture and interaction direction.
• Work with the Senior Digital & UX Strategist to ensure experience requirements and usability standards are reflected in delivered work.
• Partner with the Digital Platform Product Owner to align digital experiences with platform capabilities and constraints.
• Coordinate with engineering IT and external partners to support delivery deployment and troubleshooting as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in design computer science digital media or related field and 8 years of experience in digital experience design front-end development creative technology or motion-focused interactive roles. Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree requirements.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating motion-rich digital experiences interactive storytelling and front-end implementation.
• Proficiency with modern front-end technologies including HTML CSS JavaScript and frameworks such as React.
• Experience implementing animation transitions and motion-driven interactions using relevant libraries or tools.
• Solid understanding of interaction design UX principles responsive design and accessibility best practices.

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