Analyst - Product Development

Tiffany & Co.•New York, NY

3d•$77,000 - $85,000

About The Position

The Development Analyst supports the end-to-end development process by driving visibility, coordination, and operational discipline across development teams. This role helps maintain development momentum by tracking milestones, surfacing risks, organizing decision-making, and ensuring cross-functional alignment throughout the product lifecycle. The Analyst is not expected to serve as the technical decision-maker but must build strong working knowledge of development workflows, engineering dependencies, and manufacturing processes to support effective escalation and execution.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in related field (i.e., Project Management, Business, Merchandising, Industrial or Process Engineering)
2+ years of prior relevant Product Development or Project Management experience
Skilled in Project Development with the ability to manage multiple projects at once
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
Strong organizational details and attention to detail
Comfort speaking to technical topics
Comfortable with daily use of intermediate Excel
Understanding of the physical process of product creation

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with jewelry manufacturing
Project Management and collaboration system knowledge

Responsibilities

Create and maintain development timelines, milestone trackers, and project status dashboard
Track progress across active development launches
Identify timeline risks, bottlenecks, and overdue dependencies
Escalate blockers through defined governance channels
Prepare development status updates and meeting materials
Oversee and manage stone inventory needs for projects; including stone requests, work order creation, work order clean up, bill of material set up and PO requests
Support stage-gate readiness tracking
Confirm required approvals and deliverables are completed before milestone transitions
Maintain centralized documentation for development decisions
Help standardize reporting, templates, and development workflows
Improve process visibility and accountability
Partner closely with Product Marketing, Design, JDIW, Industrial, Planning, GA/DD and external suppliers to drive business needs
Effectively Coordinate information flow across teams
Ensure development milestone handoffs are complete and timely
Track action items and ownership from development meetings following through on open dependencies
Support issue resolution through structured escalation
Monitor development plans for schedule risk
Identify missing information, unresolved dependencies, or conflicting priorities
Escalate issues early when timelines or deliverables are at risk
Partner with PD Manager & Director / engineering leads to assess impact
Build enough fluency to recognize operational risk and coordinate effectively continue to develop working knowledge of: Jewelry development lifecycle, Technical workflows & prototype development, Supplier dependencies, Readiness milestones