About this role
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
- 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.
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Original Posting:
January 23, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $82,550.00 - $149,225.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
Other facts
About Leidos
Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 48,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023.
Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®.
Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos.
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What you'll do
- The Digital & Interactive Designer is responsible for creating motion-rich, interactive digital experiences and translating content narratives into functional digital experiences. This role involves collaboration with various teams to ensure the delivery of engaging digital narratives.
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