Interaction Designer


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£45,900 to £45,900 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	York
Job type:	Temporary
Posting date:	5 Oct 2026
Closing date:	18 Oct 2026

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Summary

Do you enjoy creating simple, accessible and effective digital experiences? Can you make complex services easier to understand and use? Are you confident collaborating with delivery colleagues and stakeholders to test and improve designs?

Active Travel England is looking for two Interaction Designers to help design and improve services that support walking, wheeling and cycling across England. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will work to ensure our digital services meet user needs and organisational goals.

This is an opportunity to shape service delivery at an early stage, establish good user-centred design practice and help colleagues understand the value of inclusive, evidence-based design.

Active Travel England is an executive agency of the Department for Transport. We lead on all things walking, wheeling and cycling across England, helping people and communities be more active by making our streets safer and more accessible. We do this by building skills, providing expert design and planning advice, as well as strengthening the case for investment.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday
Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at Active Travel England (ATE)

Active Travel England (ATE) is seeking a skilled UX/Interaction Designer to help shape exceptional digital products and services. You’ll play a key role in ATE’s growing digital portfolio, working on a strategic transformation programme and ensuring ATE’s growing digital service offering meets user needs and aligns with the Government’s Service Standard.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

Work with business analysts, delivery managers, engineers and stakeholders to understand problems and user needs.
Turn research findings, service requirements and evidence into user journeys, interaction flows, wireframes and prototypes.
Create and test designs at the right level of fidelity, from early concepts to detailed prototypes.
Iterate designs in response to usability testing, data, accessibility findings and delivery constraints.
Design inclusive and accessible experiences that meet relevant government standards and accessibility requirements.
Use and contribute to established design patterns and components, identifying where new approaches are needed.
Clearly communicate and document design decisions, assumptions, risks and unresolved issues.
Plan and facilitate collaborative design sessions, bringing together users, stakeholders and multidisciplinary colleagues.
Help teams embed user-centred design and agile ways of working, sharing good practice and constructively challenging assumptions.

Flexible resourcing

Colleagues are expected to work with a degree of flexibility, meaning responsibilities may change to support priority delivery.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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