Roles & Responsibilities

Contents:

Operations

  • High-level company view
  • Company vision
  • Tracking cashflow and company health
  • Payroll support and processing
  • Expense payment
  • Hiring and firing
  • Expensive parties with Kanye
  • ...

Business Development

  • Initial contact with business leads
  • Sussing out business leads
  • Vetting successful opportunities
  • Recording and tracking all lead information
  • Stats on lead success
  • Proposal development
  • Estimating assistance when needed

Administrative Support

  • Aids in scoping and estimating
  • Setting up/closing projects in Harvest and Basecamp, inviting people in, Welcome messages
  • Weekly updates
  • nGeneer and Friendgeneer ‘where’s the bathroom’ support
  • Vacation tracking
  • Invoicing
  • Payments
  • Attention to budget
  • Attention to milestones
  • Attention to scope
  • Monitoring and involvement in discovery, definition, design, development, QA, launch phase
  • Participation in kickoff meeting
  • Tracking content and assets received from client
  • Flowing content
  • QA testing and control
  • Staying up to speed in Basecamp throughout the project

Project Management

  • Day-to-day client communication; liaison between clients and nGeneers
  • Managing approvals
  • Attention to budget
  • Tracking client content and assets
  • Vacation tracking
  • Creation of and attention to milestones
  • Maintaining a high-level view of the project
  • Monitoring and involvement in discovery, definition, design, development, QA, launch phase
  • Running kickoff meeting
  • Organizing timelines and client deliverables
  • Ensuring scope is well defined and clearly communicated
  • Final decisions related to budget/timeline/scope

Team Lead

  • Supporting and leading the team (making sure everyone has what they need to succeed)
  • Can be anyone on the team who feels confident
  • Oversees quality of the design and/or code
  • Ensures all internal deadlines and deliverables for product or project are met
  • Monitoring and/or involvement in discovery, definition, design, development phase
  • Attention to budget
  • Attention to milestones
  • Attention to scope

Content Strategy

  • Participation in kickoff meeting
  • Aids in creation of planning docs (may include IA, sitemap, wireframes, PDDs, etc.)
  • Verifying all planning docs meet requirements set out in kickoff and proposal
  • Monitoring and involvement in definition phase, design, development, QA phase
  • Auditing existing content
  • Making core messaging
  • Creating tone/voice guidelines
  • Creating strategy for content implementation
  • Creation of content
  • Aiding client in creating content maintenance plan
  • Creating editorial calendar when required
  • Monitoring and/or involvement in QA phase
  • Content flowing when required
  • Attention to budget
  • Attention to milestones
  • Attention to scope
  • Staying up to speed in Basecamp throughout the project

UX

  • Participation in kickoff meeting
  • Aids in creation of planning docs (may include sitemap, wireframes, PDDs, etc.)
  • Verifying all planning docs meet requirements set out in kickoff and proposal
  • Research (may include market research, user interviews, heuristic review, etc.)
  • Usability testing and recommendations
  • Monitoring and involvement in discovery, definition, design, development, QA, launch phase
  • Attention to budget
  • Attention to milestones
  • Attention to scope
  • Staying up to speed in Basecamp throughout the project

Design

  • Participation in kickoff meeting
  • Monitoring and involvement in discovery, definition, design, development phase
  • Aids in creation of planning docs (may include IA, sitemap, wireframes, PDDs, etc.)
  • Verifying all planning docs meet requirements set out in kickoff and proposal
  • Creation of HTML style guide
  • Creation of HTML and CSS skeleton
  • Site or app design
  • Illustration
  • Branding and branding guidelines, attributes
  • Checking design against all planning documents to verify all specs are executed
  • Attention to budget
  • Attention to milestones
  • Attention to scope
  • Staying up to speed in Basecamp throughout the project

Development

  • Participation in kickoff meeting
  • Getting thoroughly informed on all integration needs (client portals, ecommerce systems, client’s database(s), etc.)
  • Recommending technologies
  • Monitoring and/or involvement in discovery, definition, design, development, QA, launch, maintenance
  • Verifying all requirements in planning docs, kickoff and proposal are met
  • Coding site, app
  • Hooking in databases
  • Testing code
  • API specifications
  • Finalizing server, hosting, maintenance needs or plan
  • QA fixes and retests
  • Attention to budget
  • Attention to milestones
  • Attention to scope
  • Staying up to speed in Basecamp throughout the project