Tiffany & Co. Product Development Analyst - Project Management

Tiffany & Co.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 77,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiffany & Co. is seeking a Development Analyst to support end-to-end jewelry development by driving visibility, coordination, and discipline across teams in New York.

You will track milestones, surface risks, and organize governance to ensure timely transitions through the product lifecycle. You’ll build fluency in jewelry development workflows, manage development timelines, and collaborate with Product Marketing, Design, and suppliers to ensure clear handoffs and accountable action items.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field is required or preferred.
• 2+ years of prior Product Development or Project Management experience.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and coordinate across teams.
• Comfort speaking about technical topics and reading development plans.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain development timelines, milestone trackers, and dashboards.
• Track progress across active development launches and identify risks.
• Escalate blockers through governance channels and prepare status updates.
• Oversee stone inventory and approvals to ensure milestone readiness.
• Coordinate information flow across Product Marketing, Design, and suppliers.
• Support issue resolution and drive timely milestone handoffs.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Technical communication

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Excel

Job description

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.