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The Home Depot

Instructional Designer

🇺🇸 Atlanta, GA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $60K - $90K

💻 Instructional Design

🗓️ April 28th, 2025

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Home Depot is hiring an Instructional Designer. This role involves designing, developing, and implementing leadership development programs to enhance leadership capabilities across the organization. The Instructional Designer will work collaboratively to create learning solutions that change leadership thinking and ensure leaders are equipped to lead their teams effectively.
 
Highlights 
  • Create learning objectives, design documents, and develop learning solutions using project-based templates.
  • Experience with standard eLearning tools such as Articulate Storyline, Presenter, and Adobe Captivate is required.
  • Compensation ranges from $60,000.00 to $90,000.00 annually.
  • Must have strong communication skills and proficiency with WebEx and Microsoft Teams.
  • Requires a minimum of 3 years of work experience with knowledge of instructional design and adult learning theories.
  • Preferred candidates hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Instructional Design or related field.
  • Opportunities exist for performance-based bonuses or profit sharing, depending on the position.
  • This position reports to the Manager of Learning and requires less than 10% overnight travel.

Instructional Designer Full Description

Location – Atlanta, GA
Category – Human Resources

Company Overview
What’s the best place we’ve ever built? The place where we work. At Home Depot, our goal is to provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products, and the most competitive prices. As the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate more than 2,200 retail stores across North America. And each of our associates are focused one thing — helping our customers build and improve their homes, businesses, and ultimately their lives.

Pay Range
The pay range for this position is between $60,000.00 – $90,000.00.

Starting wage may vary based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the position being offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. The Home Depot offers additional competitive and non-financial benefits, which may include a performance-based bonus program or a profit sharing program depending on position.

Position Purpose:
At The Home Depot, we help doers get more done. In order to do this, we need the best leaders in retail. Our Enterprise Leadership Development team helps develop confident, competent, orange-blooded leaders who can effectively take care of their associates. We have a strong team of instructional designers who are focused on the goal of developing our leaders, and we’re looking to add to the team.  

That’s where you come in! This Instructional Designer will help design, develop, and implement cutting-edge, experiential leadership development programs that build enterprise leadership capabilities throughout the leadership lifecycle. You will be part of a dynamic, collaborative team that creates learning to build knowledge and, more importantly, change the way our leaders think.  

When you join The Home Depot, you join a team that takes care of our people. The Instructional Designer will take care of our leaders and ensure they are equipped with the mindsets and behaviors needed to effectively lead their teams and achieve business results.  

Interested? Here’s what we’re looking for: 
  • You have strong communication skills and you’re comfortable communicating through technology (WebEx, Microsoft Teams, etc.). 
  • You are passionate about leadership development and have a strong background in instructional design, leadership, talent development, or psychology.  
  • You have a track record of using innovative approaches to develop people, particularly leaders.  
  • You have experience with vertical development, coaching, or leading a team.  
  • You have experience with Agile Learning Development or the Successive Approximation Model (SAM).    
  • You are self-driven, resourceful, and excellent at project management.  
  • You are comfortable taking risks, communicating new ideas to a variety of audiences, being a trusted consultant and partner, and propelling current thinking about leader development to the next level.  

Is this you? If so, we want to talk to you!  

Key Responsibilities:
  • 60% Create learning objectives, design documents, storyboards, and other learning design deliverables. Develop learning solutions using project-based templates. Test and debug deliverables for quality assurance. Ensure leaning solutions align with desired outcomes.
  • 10% Partner with Learning Strategy Senior Managers on confirming needs analysis and instructional strategy
  • 10% Know standard eLearning development tools and software (Articulate Storyline and Presenter, Adobe Captivate).
  • 10% Proactively communicate task and project status to client group and management
  • 10% Assist in the interviewing, selection, and onboarding of contractors and associates

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
  • This position reports to Manager of Learning.
  • This position has 0 direct reports.

Travel Requirements:
  • Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:
  • 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.

Working Conditions:
  • Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Must be eighteen years of age or older.
  • Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Master's or Bachelor's degree in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, HR Development, Organizational Development, I/O Psychology or related field preferred (or equivalent Home Depot experience)
  • Experience in education or learning field, or similar work experience
  • Experience creating training deliverables for retail organizations

Minimum Education:
  • The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diploma and/or GED.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:
  • 3

Competencies:
  • Proficient knowledge of instructional design and adult learning theories
  • Proficiency with software including Microsoft Office and standard eLearning development tools
  • Basic knowledge of project management principles and MS Project
  • Excellent written communication skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills