Job DescriptionThe 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 AccountabilitiesDevelopment 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.
