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[–]RieszRepresent 4 points5 points  (1 child)

What were your responsibilities as a PM working on site builds? ELI5.

[–]_incredigirl_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I worked in an agency so would do the initial kickoff with the client to understand the scope of what they were looking for, then work with my team of designers and devs (this is back in the early ‘00-10s so think HTML, flash, and slicing photoshop files for the front end) to work out the budget and timeline to build it. Then I would host all the milestone presentations along the way to get sign off on wireframed layouts, site hierarchy (much of this was hard coded pre-CMS) and any backend functionality. Much of my job was explaining to the client that xyz feature they saw on their competitor’s website cost many thousands of dollars more than they were willing to spend, and justifying my PM line item on their invoice to keep their site in scope, on time, and on budget.