Sr Designer, Motion

The Home Depot•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

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. The role combines advanced motion design expertise with a strong understanding of animation principles—including timing, spacing, rhythm, pacing, and expressive movement—with design fundamentals, conceptual thinking, and visual storytelling. 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. The role owns projects from concept through final delivery, collaborates with creative and business partners, and helps advance animation quality and craft across the Creative Studio through mentorship, shared expertise, and scalable motion design solutions.

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years of age.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
At least 3 years of work experience.
Minimum education is typically acquired through completing a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field related to the job.

Nice To Haves

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.
A 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.
Experience mentoring designers and providing constructive creative and technical feedback.
Experience presenting concepts and creative rationale to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Support creative leaders in capturing and establishing art direction standards for creative production.
Disseminate final creative assets to capture best practices and share them across the 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.
Develop industry-leading creative concepts while balancing strategic development with business objectives across channels.
Facilitate production shoot logistics.
Review work-in-progress assets and provide feedback.
Collaborate with designers and other team members to implement creative direction.
Ensure storylines align with creative concepts and The Home Depot brand standards.
Oversee tactical execution against concepts and copy matrices, account for types of units, and provide creative materials for presentations.
Drive communications and updates to creative leadership and pod stakeholders.
Partner with cross-functional teams to establish a cohesive point of view on projects and creative development.
Provide quality assurance for creative deliverables from internal teams and partner agencies, ensuring alignment with strategy and adherence to brand, channel, and platform guidelines.
Ensure creative deliverables align with media plans.
Own motion design projects from concept through final delivery and help advance animation craft through mentorship, shared expertise, and scalable motion design solutions.