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.