Product Marketing Intern

About the role

Location: San Jose, California

Employment type: Internship

About the role

As a Product Marketing Intern, you will work with product line management and cross-functional partners to understand customer needs, translate technical concepts into clear product and solution messaging, and support go-to-market execution. You will gain hands-on experience across the product life cycle while contributing to work that connects Astera Labs' connectivity solutions with the needs of hyperscale customers and modern AI infrastructure.

What you'll do

• Learn how hyperscale customers use PCIe, CXL, and Ethernet connectivity solutions to build cloud and AI infrastructure, and develop an understanding of customer use cases and challenges.
• Partner with product line management, Marketing, Sales, Applications, Field Applications Engineering, Program Management, Firmware, and Product Applications teams to drive solutions and outcomes for customers.
• Develop sales-enablement collateral, product messaging, marketing slides, and other materials that communicate product value to technical and business audiences.
• Support go-to-market strategies, product positioning, industry events, web and social campaigns, and other marketing programs.
• Conduct competitive and market analysis, synthesize technical and business information, and help develop business cases.
• Support product trainings, demos, launch work, and demo messaging as assigned.
• Gather stakeholder input, set clear timelines, track deliverables, communicate progress, and keep work moving independently.
• Present findings, roadmaps, messaging, and project outcomes to cross-functional audiences.

What you bring

• Pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, business, marketing, or a related field, with an interest in product marketing, product management, semiconductors, or AI infrastructure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear presentations and explain complex ideas.
• Self-motivated, proactive, highly organized, and comfortable taking ownership of deliverables.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment.
• Creative, analytical, and detail-oriented approach to problem solving.
• Willingness to learn new technical and business concepts and bring forward thoughtful ideas.

Preferred experience

• Familiarity with semiconductors, hardware and software solutions, or data-center cloud and AI infrastructure.
• Familiarity with PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, or related connectivity use cases.
• Experience with competitive research, market analysis, business analysis, sales enablement, product messaging, or presentation development.

Pay and benefits

This is a paid, hourly U.S. internship. The applicable hourly rate is determined as part of the offer process and specified in the offer letter, depending on education level ranges form $35/hour to $55/hour. U.S. interns currently receive a $500-per-week housing/relocation stipend for the duration of the internship. Interns participate in Early Career programming, including technical and professional-development sessions, community events, and an end-of-program project presentation.

We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.