Junior Interaction Designer

Government Digital Service

Location Manchester

Job grade Higher Executive Officer

Contract type Permanent

Working pattern Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours

Salary £37,655 - £41,120

Closing date Sun 15 Nov 2026

Reference 488672

Profession Digital, Data & Technology

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You will join the GOV.UK Web team where you’ll be working on the improvements that help people find and use information and services easily.

As a designer at GDS you’ll work in multidisciplinary teams, alongside researchers and developers, to deliver world-class, user-centred public services that meet the Government Design Principles.

You’ll help identify and fix some of the toughest problems in public infrastructure and you will be focusing on the design of services at scale. You’ll help the government transform the way it delivers services, so that they’re more efficient, simpler, faster and easier to use.

You'll be part of a fantastic design community in government, where we share ideas and challenges with 1000s of designers across the public sector. This is a chance to work on services that matter, at a huge scale, with people who value design.

Find out more about what it’s like designing in government on our Design in Government blog.

As a Junior Interaction Designer You’ll

• support designers, user researchers and product managers to understand user needs
• support a designer and product manager in stakeholder aligning workshops
• work with other designers to map user journey flows for internal stakeholders and identifying patterns
• show aptitude for driving design direction, supporting the product and delivery teams with product roadmap
• share design output with the internal design community for a joined-up experience
• use your creative skills to develop ideas that contribute to the creation and development of products and services as part of a multidisciplinary team, individually and across GDS

Person specification

We’re Interested In People Who

• can show an aptitude for design through work, study, volunteering, personal projects or other experience, and how they have used creative thinking to make something clearer, more accessible, inclusive, or easier for people to use
• show interest in making effective decisions with qualitative user research and quantitative data
• have an awareness of multidisciplinary, agile environments and can adapt to changes in requirements, priorities or user needs, with support
• enjoy making ideas tangible, for example through sketches, diagrams, prototypes, journey maps, layouts or visual designs, and have an awareness of how these can be used to explore, test and improve ideas with users
• design collaboratively and in the open, show interest in engaging with people in a variety of ways (eg, workshops or co-design activities)
• have an understanding of the importance of inclusive, equitable, accessible and sustainable public services

Benefits Alongside your salary of £37,655, Government Digital Service contributes £10,908 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

There Are Many Benefits Of Working At GDS, Including

• flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hours
• a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
• 25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day each year up to a maximum of 30 days
• an extra day off for the King’s birthday
• an in-year bonus scheme to recognise high performance
• career progression and coaching, including a training budget for personal development
• a focus on wellbeing with access to an employee assistance programme
• job satisfaction from making government services easier to use and more inclusive for people across the UK
• advances on pay, including for travel season tickets
• death in service benefits
• cycle to work scheme and facilities
• access to an employee discounts scheme
• 10 learning days per year
• volunteering opportunities (5 special leave days per year)
• access to a suite of learning activities through Civil Service learning

Any move to Government Digital Service from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk.

Office attendance The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.

DSIT does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).

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