Development Analyst

Role Overview

The Development Analyst plays a critical role in overseeing the entire development process by enhancing transparency, coordination, and operational discipline within development teams. This position ensures sustained progress by monitoring milestones, unearthing risks, facilitating decision-making processes, and guaranteeing alignment across functions throughout the product lifecycle. While not a technical decision-maker, the analyst must understand development workflows, engineering dependencies, and manufacturing processes well enough to support escalations and execution effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and update development timelines, milestone tracking tools, and project status dashboards.
• Monitor progress on all ongoing development launches.
• Detect timeline risks, bottlenecks, and delayed dependencies.
• Escalate critical blockers following established governance procedures.
• Prepare updates on development status and organize meeting materials.
• Manage and oversee stone inventory requirements, including requests, work order creation and cleanup, bill of material setup, and purchase order processes.
• Support tracking for stage-gate readiness, ensuring all necessary approvals and deliverables are secured before milestone transitions.
• Maintain centralized records of development decisions and assist in standardizing reporting, templates, and workflow processes.
• Enhance process transparency and accountability throughout development.
• Collaborate closely with teams such as Product Marketing, Design, JDIW, Industrial, Planning, GA/DD, and external suppliers to meet business needs.
• Coordinate information flow across teams effectively.
• Ensure timely completion of milestone handoffs within development phases.
• Track action items and ownership from meetings, ensuring follow-up on open dependencies.
• Support problem-solving through structured escalation mechanisms.
• Monitor development plans vigilantly for scheduling risks and identify missing details, unresolved dependencies, or priority conflicts.
• Promptly escalate issues threatening timelines or deliverables and work with PD Manager, Director, and engineering leads to evaluate impacts.
• Develop sufficient fluency in jewelry development lifecycle, technical workflows, prototype development, supplier dependencies, and readiness milestones to recognize operational risks and efficiently coordinate activities.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant domain such as Project Management, Business, Merchandising, Industrial, or Process Engineering.
• At least two years of Development or Project Management experience related to the role.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with strong project development skills.
• Excellent team collaboration capabilities.
• High attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Comfortable discussing technical subjects and competent in intermediate Excel usage on a daily basis.
• Knowledge of the physical aspects of product creation processes.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with jewelry manufacturing processes.
• Experience with project management and collaboration software systems.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is between $77,000 and $85,000 annually, with exact pay based on relevant skills and experience. Tiffany & Co. provides comprehensive benefits including global programs such as adoption and surrogacy assistance, parental leave, and several health and well-being support services. Benefits also include competitive pay, medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) with company match, and paid time off among other employee offerings.

Our Commitment

Tiffany & Co. values diversity and inclusion, striving to build a workplace where everyone feels they belong. Equal opportunity employment is provided regardless of numerous protected characteristics, and accommodations for applicants with disabilities are available.