About the Role
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 must build strong working knowledge of development workflows, engineering dependencies, and manufacturing processes to support effective escalation and execution.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain development timelines, milestone trackers, and project status dashboards.
- 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 setup, 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 fluency to recognize operational risk and coordinate effectively.
- Develop working knowledge of the jewelry development lifecycle, technical workflows & prototype development, supplier dependencies, and readiness milestones.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (i.e., Project Management, Business, Merchandising, Industrial or Process Engineering).
- 2+ years of prior relevant 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.
- Familiarity with jewelry manufacturing.
- Project Management and collaboration system knowledge.
Skills
- Project Management
- Collaboration
- Excel (intermediate)
- Communication
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $77,000 - $85,000
Benefits
- Global benefits like adoption and surrogacy assistance
- Parental leave
- Programs that support mental, emotional, physical, and financial well-being
- Competitive pay
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plans with company match
- Paid time off
About the Company
- Tiffany & Co. is formed from many facets - talented people who make our community stronger with their creativity, perspective, and lived experience.
- Creating an inclusive workplace and workforce where everyone belongs is at the core of our values.
- We’re committed to creating a more inclusive jewelry industry that empowers people of all backgrounds to shine and evolve to new heights.
Equal Opportunity
- The Company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates for employment without regard to age, race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, alien or citizenship status, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, disability, or military/veteran status.
- Tiffany is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities.
