Digital and Interactive Designer

Description

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.

• 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.

• Bachelor's 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.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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