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 Product 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.