Analyst - Development

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.

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