Digital Project Manager
Scope, manage and deliver digital projects in alignment with client needs or organisational goals.
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- What's it like to be a Digital Project Manager?
- How to become a Digital Project Manager
- Latest Digital Project Manager jobs
- Top skills and experience for Digital Project Managers
- Is Digital Project Manager the right role for you?
- Digital Project Manager role reviews
What's it like to be a Digital Project Manager?
Digital Project Managers are responsible for scoping, strategising, executing, managing and delivering their projects in alignment with their client or the organisation they work for. In smaller organisations, the Digital Project Manager may also do hands-on technical work, such as user experience testing or front-end development.
Tasks and duties
- Defining, agreeing and documenting project scope.
- Breaking down the project scope into actionable tasks.
- Managing team members, facilitating meetings, and organising or prioritising workflows.
- Managing time and budget, writing reports.
- Assessing risks and managing changes to project scope.
- Tracking and triaging new development and change requests.
- Communicating with stakeholders and giving presentations on progress, impediments and resources.
- Assessing and evaluating project success.
How to become a Digital Project Manager
Formal qualifications are not necessary to become a Digital Project Manager, but experience or formal training in project management methodologies may be advantageous. A short course or bootcamp may help you develop relevant skills.
- Consider training in the Agile project management methodology to become a Scrum Master. Agile is the project management methodology of choice in the digital industry.
- Learn traditional waterfall project management methodologies, such as PRINCE2 or PMBOK.
- One of the most common ways to become a Digital Project Manager is with hands-on experience, working in digital (particularly as a Digital Producer) and taking on more responsibility until you are accountable for end-to-end projects. Once you have delivered a successful project it is a lot easier for you to get opportunities to show your skills again.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Digital Project Manager employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Digital Projects
Project Planning
Project Management
Stakeholder Management
Atlassian Jira
Project Delivery
Project Scope
Scrum Methodology
UX
Project Management Software
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Latest Digital Project Manager reviews
Oct 2018
Digital Project Management gives you best if both world, Digital and Project Management
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Information Technology
Experience1 – 4 years
Organisation sizeMedium (20-199 employees)
SpecialisationIT
The good thingsYou get the best of both worlds in it, Digital and Project Management. Project management techniques can be utilised in various industries and is in limelight from quite some time. Digital however is ...
The challengesThe range of Digital product offerings is huge! This means that in order to project manage these, you need to be on top of them. This is not a role where you learn something and then grow into a senio...
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May 2021
Hard and soft skills required can be applied across any industry
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Information Science
Experience5 – 9 years
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationDigital Products
The good thingsEach day can be different, continuously growing in evolving field, can apply to any industry
The challengesEasy for workload to be very high, high level of responsibility, can be tough if unreasonable stakeholders are involved
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