Analyst - Development

Job Description

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)
• 1-3 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfortable with daily use of intermediate excel
• Project Management system
• Process Engineering

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 Us

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.

We believe reaching your full potential requires a solid foundation, and your well-being is a central pillar. Eligible Tiffany employees are offered comprehensive benefits, including global benefits like adoption and surrogacy assistance, and parental leave, as well as programs that support mental, emotional, physical, and financial well-being. We also offer competitive pay, medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) plans with company match, paid time off, alongside other meaningful employee offerings.

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.