Analyst - Product 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, 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.