Lead Interaction Designer - DBT - G7

Manchester Digital; Remote; GBP 62,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

A government department in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead Interaction Designer to enhance user interaction with digital services. The ideal candidate will work in a multidisciplinary team to develop innovative digital products and ensure consistency through design patterns. Responsibilities include collaborating with user researchers, creating prototypes, and understanding stakeholder needs. The position offers a full-time contract with a salary range of £62,103 to £81,674, depending on location, and is part of the Digital, Data and Technology directorate.

Qualifications

• Ability to understand the needs of users and stakeholders and to communicate these clearly.
• Experience creating prototypes and design patterns for digital products.
• Ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams with researchers, designers, product managers and technologists.

Responsibilities

• Determine the best ways for users to interact with services in terms of overall flow and individual design elements.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to develop innovative approaches for digital products within integrated services across DBT.
• Create prototypes to test ideas and inspire the team and stakeholders.
• Develop design patterns to ensure consistency and scalability across services.

Job description

Overview

£62,103 - £81,674 location dependant and additional allowance included. Full-time (Permanent) £62,103 - £81,674 location dependant and additional allowance included. Published on 16 December 2025. Deadline 5 January 2026.

Location

Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford

About the job

Job summary

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. We do this in three ways.

• First, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly.
• Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements.
• Finally, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow.

The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission. The team have been nominated four times in a row for ‘Best Public Sector Employer’ at theWomen in Tech awards !

About the role

As a Lead Interaction Designer at DBT you will work out the best way to let users interact with services in terms of both overall flow and at the level of individual design elements.

• You will work in a multidisciplinary team, alongside user researchers, content designers, product managers and technology experts.
• As a team, you will develop innovative approaches for digital products that are part of integrated services across DBT.

To be effective in this position, you will need to understand the needs of users and stakeholders and be able to communicate this in an engaging way, whether this is by creating prototypes to test an idea and inspire the team and stakeholders or creating design patterns that can be used across our services to ensure consistency and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Determine the best ways for users to interact with services in terms of overall flow and individual design elements.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to develop innovative approaches for digital products within integrated services across DBT.
• Create prototypes to test ideas and inspire the team and stakeholders.
• Develop design patterns to ensure consistency and scalability across services.

Qualifications / Capabilities

• Ability to understand the needs of users and stakeholders and to communicate these clearly.
• Experience creating prototypes and design patterns for digital products.
• Ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams with researchers, designers, product managers and technologists.