Which job title interests you the most? Which one do you feel you are best suited for? Why?
Project Manager interests me the most because it involves the manager overseeing the process and the project team striving to enhance a person’s experience using a digital product, such as an application, website, or online stream. As a project manager, I would seek to use the team’s individual strengths to launch a product that is enjoyable, interactive, and user-friendly. While combining my technical skills and an understanding of UX design. My ultimate focus is the human experience and how a product is optimized for maximum enjoyment. I’ll also focus on the business aspects. My overall responsibilities would be managing the user experience, developing strategies, facilitating collaboration, moving a UX product through its lifecycle with the best possible result, leading user research and analysis, keeping open communication channels for the whole team to work together, setting clear roles and responsibilities within the team, looking for investment opportunities, monitoring budgets and increasing revenue, and communicating with stakeholders. Being the leader of a team and project is one of my passions.
I feel I am best suited for the role of program manager because workplace and technical skills are essential to this role, which works closely with people. I have and am gaining the needed technical skills in UX design, strategic planning, project management software, agile and waterfall methodologies, graphic design programs, spreadsheets, visual design, testing, wireframes, prototyping, and customer research tools. I am also enhancing and gaining the needed workplace tools of attention to detail, analytical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration and teamwork, communication and listening, ability to meet targets and deadlines, leadership, delegation, stress management, and organization. These added skills will surely enhance my management skill set.
Project management within UX design is growing. Organization and facilitation between a multidisciplinary team are needed. As a UX project manager, I need a unique blend of technical and workplace skills to manage project goals and outcomes. So having both technical skills and workplace skills is essential. UX project management is an effective way to use my digital design skills and build on them to advance my career. To work in a management position, I must demonstrate UX design experience and leadership capacity. I am considering taking PMI Agile Certified Practitioner to go along with my PMP training.
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