Digital & Interactive Designer

About

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

• Design and develop immersive, interactive digital experiences using Unity Game Engine and C#, spanning web, desktop, mobile, and real‑time installations.
• 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.
• Build and maintain robust data‑driven frameworks within Unity, including systems for retrieving, processing, and posting data to external APIs and services.

Collaboration & Ways of Working

• Collaborate closely with the Interactive Design Lead to execute experience architecture and interaction direction.
• Partner closely with the Interactive Design Lead and cross‑functional teams to architect scalable, reusable systems that support a growing portfolio of experiences.
• 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.
• Develop modular, extensible codebases that support rapid iteration, reuse, and long‑term maintainability across projects.

Qualifications

• 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.