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View profileA career in digital project management involves creating project plans, agreeing to budgets and managing risks through the development lifecycle of projects, ensuring the work is of exceptional quality. Your responsibilities can include project planning, quality management, resourcing project risk and assumption management.
Why consider a career as a digital project manager?
If you’re determined to lead a streamlined process of managing online projects through from concept to finish, a digital project manager is a vibrant leadership role that holds all projects and developments together. You’ll make sure the right tasks are prioritised and you’ll help the internal teams structure their commitments.
What a career or job in digital project management may entail…
Often reporting to a Digital Director or Project Director, you’ll be responsible for scoping, production of project documentation, such as statements of work, project plans, and estimates & quotations, and you’ll be working with a variety of individuals internally, from Designers and UX, to Front End and Back End Developers, ultimately the work can be extremely varied.
As a Digital Project Director, you’ll take charge of project delivery for a group of high profile clients, delivering complex and innovative solutions spanning large scale website design and build or CMS development projects. Naturally, you’ll have a background in managing big budgets whether that’s coming from a range of clients from an agency background or working in-house. You’ll be used to taking complete ownership of project delivery and playing a key part in the leadership team of an agency, leading a team and managing the overall strategy for clients ensuring all projects are on time and budget.
Typical Digital Project Management role titles include
Digital Project Lead
Senior Digital Project Manager
Digital Project Manager
Junior Project Manager
Junior Digital Project Manager
Digital Project Management career progression example
Digital Project Director
Head of Digital Projects
Senior Project Manager
Salary Benchmarks
We’ve outlined the latest salary benchmarks for Digital Project Management roles in the guide below:
Is it right for me? The skills it takes…
As a digital project manager, you should have impeccable organisation and time management skills, strong communication and team management abilities.
What qualifications does it take?
To work in digital project management, you will usually need a degree in a technical subject, however, experience through internships etc can set up for success.
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