The Home Depot, Atlanta, Georgia
This role combines advanced motion design expertise with a strong understanding of animation principles, including timing, spacing, rhythm, pacing, and the qualities of movement that create personality, expression, and meaning. The Senior Designer, Motion applies these principles alongside strong design fundamentals, conceptual thinking, and visual storytelling to develop compelling creative work.
The Senior Designer, Motion translates creative briefs and business objectives into original concepts and polished animation, making deliberate decisions about movement, composition, transitions, pacing, and sound. This role demonstrates strong creative judgment and technical expertise, using motion purposefully to create distinctive and engaging brand experiences.
This role owns projects from concept through final delivery, collaborates with creative and business partners, and helps advance the quality and craft of animation across the Creative Studio through mentorship, shared expertise, and scalable motion design solutions.
20% Continuous Improvement - Support creative leaders to capture and establish art direction standards for creative production; Support dissemination of final creative assets to capture best practices and share across creative organization; Collaborate with designers and other team members to share best practices and ensure consistency in creative execution; Maintain stewardship of The Home Depot brand image, tone and feel 60% Creative Excellence and Execution - Responsible for ensuring the development of industry-leading creative concepts while balancing strategic development with business objectives across all channels; Facilitate production shoot logistics; Review and provide feedback for work in progress assets; Collaborate with designers and other team members to implement creative direction; Ensure story lines are aligned with creative concepts and The Home Depot brand standards; Oversee tactical execution against concepts, copy matrices, types of units and provide creative materials for presentations; Drive communications and updates to creative leadership as well as pod stakeholders; Partner with cross-functional teams for cohesive point of view on projects and/or creative development 20% Quality Assurance - Provide quality assurance of creative deliverables, from both internal teams and partner agencies, to ensure designs align with strategy and adhere to brand, channel and platform guidelines.
Ensure alignment against media plans
This position typically reports to Manager, Creative This position has 0 Direct Reports
Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Must be eighteen years of age or older. Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Action Oriented Collaborates Drives Engagement Communicates Effectively Customer Focus Drives Results Manages Conflict
Bachelor’s degree in motion design, graphic design, animation, visual communication, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. Advanced proficiency in Adobe After Effects and working knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Portfolio demonstrating strong animation craft, original concept development, design fundamentals, and visual storytelling across multiple formats. Advanced understanding of animation principles, including timing, spacing, rhythm, pacing, weight, transitions, and expressive movement.
Experience applying animation principles to branded motion design and marketing creative. Experience developing branded motion systems, campaign creative, and reusable animation templates. Strong understanding of compositing, sound integration, and motion production workflows. Ability to balance animation craft and creative quality with project scope, timelines, technical requirements, and business objectives. Experience troubleshooting creative, animation, and production challenges independently.
Experience developing motion creative across digital, social, video, broadcast, experiential, or other customer touchpoints. Familiarity with expressions and other techniques for developing scalable animation systems. Experience with Cinema 4D, Blender, or comparable 3D design and animation tools is a plus. Experience mentoring designers and providing constructive creative and technical feedback. Experience presenting concepts and creative rationale to stakeholders.
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
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With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Position Purpose: The Senior Designer, Motion develops sophisticated animation and motion design that brings The Home Depot’s brand and marketing strategies to life across digital, social, video, broadcast, events, and environmental displays.
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