  We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) imaging of NGC 7469 with the
Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI). NGC 7469
is a nearby, $z=0.01627$, luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) that hosts both a
Seyfert Type-1.5 nucleus and a circumnuclear starburst ring with a radius of
$\sim$0.5 kpc. The new near-infrared (NIR) JWST imaging reveals 66 star-forming
regions, 37 of which were not detected by HST observations. Twenty-eight of the
37 sources have very red NIR colors that indicate obscurations up to
A$_{\rm{v}}\sim7$ and a contribution of at least 25$\%$ from hot dust emission
to the 4.4$\mu$m band. Their NIR colors are also consistent with young ($<$5
Myr) stellar populations and more than half of them are coincident with the MIR
emission peaks. These younger, dusty star-forming regions account for
$\sim$6$\%$ and $\sim$17$\%$ of the total 1.5$\mu$m and 4.4$\mu$m luminosity of
the starburst ring, respectively. Thanks to JWST, we find a significant number
of young dusty sources that were previously unseen due to dust extinction. The
newly identified 28 young sources are a significant increase compared to the
number of HST-detected young sources (4-5). This makes the total percentage of
the young population rise from $\sim$15$\%$ to 48$\%$. These results illustrate
the effectiveness of JWST in identifying and characterizing previously hidden
star formation in the densest star-forming environments around AGN.
