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.
Key Accountabilities
Development Execution Support:
- 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
Development Governance:
- 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
Cross-functional Collaboration:
- 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
Risk Identification & 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
Product/Technical Learning:
- 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
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with jewelry manufacturing
- Project Management and collaboration system knowledge
The hiring range for this position ranges from $77,000 - $85,000. The rate of pay offered will be dependent upon candidates' relevant skills and experience.
About UsSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Business, Merchandising, Industrial or Process Engineering (or related field)
- 2+ years of relevant Development or Project Management experience
- Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently and maintain development timelines
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Comfort speaking to technical topics and understanding engineering/manufacturing workflows
- Daily use of intermediate Microsoft Excel
- Understanding of the physical process of product creation
- Familiarity with jewelry manufacturing
- Project management and collaboration system knowledge
Tiffany & Co. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave and family-building supports such as adoption and surrogacy assistance are prominently featured. Additional paid family-care leave and supportive policies reinforce a family-forward package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, and vision coverage is emphasized as part of the standard offering. Inclusive coverage elements and health-related reimbursements are referenced in company materials.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A holistic “My Tiffany” well-being ecosystem spans mental, emotional, physical, and financial support. A strong employee purchase program and charitable matching through Tiffany Cares add distinctive lifestyle value.
Tiffany & Co. Insights
What We Do
In 1837 Charles Lewis Tiffany founded his company in New York City where his store was soon acclaimed as the palace of jewels for its exceptional gemstones. Since then TIFFANY & CO. has become synonymous with elegance, innovative design, fine craftsmanship and creative excellence. During the 20th century fame thrived worldwide with store network expansion and continuous cultural relevance, as exemplified by Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the film starring Audrey Hepburn. Today, with more than 13,000 employees, TIFFANY & CO. and its subsidiaries design, manufacture and market jewelry, watches and luxury accessories – including more than 5,000 skilled artisans who cut diamonds and craft jewelry in the Company’s workshops, realizing its commitment to superlative quality. The Company operates more than 300 TIFFANY & CO. retail stores worldwide as part of its omni-channel approach. To learn more about TIFFANY & CO. as well as its commitment to sustainability, please visit tiffany.com.
