Senior Principal Program Manager, Business Acceleration

About the role

Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. By collaborating with hyperscalers and ecosystem partners, Astera Labs enables organizations to unlock the full potential of modern AI.

Astera Labs' Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates CXL®, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe®, and UALink™ semiconductor-based technologies with the company's COSMOS software suite to unify diverse components into cohesive, flexible systems that deliver end-to-end scale-up, and scale-out connectivity.

The company's custom connectivity solutions business complements its standards-based portfolio, enabling customers to deploy tailored architectures to meet their unique infrastructure requirements.

The Opportunity

The ideal candidate is more than a traditional program manager. You are technically credible, highly organized, comfortable operating with senior executives, and willing to relentlessly drive teams toward resolution.

You will bring structure to complex, cross-functional initiatives across strategic sales opportunities and product development operations involving semiconductor connectivity programs. You will identify blockers, establish clear ownership, track progress, escalate issues, and ensure that critical actions are completed.

Success in this role requires someone who can walk into a room with engineers, product leaders, sales executives, and senior management and quickly understand what roadblocks are in the company's strategic sales opportunities, ask the right questions, and drive the organization toward action and execution so that those opportunities convert into revenue.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Program Management

• Lead recurring executive reviews of strategically important sales and business initiatives.
• Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, FAE, and other teams to identify blockers, dependencies, and execution risks.
• Establish clear action owners, timelines, and follow-through mechanisms.
• Track open issues to resolution and proactively escalate stalled or high-impact items.
• Develop concise executive-level reporting that clearly communicates progress, risks, blockers, and required leadership actions.
• Hold cross-functional stakeholders accountable for commitments and drive timely resolution of critical issues.

Customer & Market Program Intelligence

• Develop and maintain a view of major AI infrastructure buildout programs across key customers and market segments.
• Work with Sales, Product Marketing, Product Management, and other teams to understand customer programs, product adoption, competitive dynamics, and whitespace opportunities.
• Build customer and market heatmaps that identify where Astera Labs products are deployed today and where future opportunities may exist.
• Lead recurring executive readouts on customer program developments and business opportunities.

Business Acceleration & Strategic Planning

• Own programs designed to accelerate growth and close execution gaps against company objectives.
• Develop frameworks that connect customer opportunities, product initiatives, and execution priorities to broader business goals.
• Partner closely with senior leadership to track progress against strategic objectives.
• Identify systemic execution issues and help establish mechanisms to improve organizational responsiveness and accountability.

Semiconductor & Supply Chain Program Management

• Develop an understanding of semiconductor product development and manufacturing processes, including silicon development, validation, tape-out, foundry, packaging, and production.
• Over time, support monitoring of critical semiconductor supply-chain risks and dependencies across foundry, OSAT, substrate, and other key suppliers.
• Establish reporting mechanisms to identify emerging supply constraints and risks.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• Significant experience in program management, product operations, business acceleration, product management, or a related cross-functional role within the semiconductor, hardware, connectivity, computing, or AI infrastructure industry.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor and hardware product development processes.
• Ability to understand complex technical issues and communicate them clearly to both technical and executive audiences.
• Exceptional PowerPoint skills, with the ability to build clear, executive-ready slide narratives quickly, and demonstrated fluency with AI tools to accelerate analysis, reporting, and communication.
• Experience working across Engineering, Product, Sales, FAE, Operations, and/or Supply Chain organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously and maintain rigorous follow-through.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and executive communication skills.
• Experience working with semiconductor, connectivity, networking, compute, storage, or AI infrastructure products is highly desirable.

Leadership Characteristics

We are looking for someone who

• Drives accountability rather than simply tracking status.
• Is comfortable challenging senior stakeholders and escalating when commitments are not being met.
• Has exceptional executive presence and communication skills.
• Can operate effectively with incomplete information and rapidly changing priorities.
• Is highly persistent and willing to chase down the information needed to move an initiative forward.
• Combines technical depth with strong business judgment.
• Thinks like an operator and takes ownership of outcomes.
• Has the potential to grow into broader business or general management leadership.

Why This Role Matters

• This is a highly visible opportunity to work directly with Astera Labs leadership on initiatives that span customers, products, engineering, and the broader business.
• You will have the opportunity to build the operating mechanisms that help Astera Labs execute against its next phase of growth while working at the center of the AI infrastructure ecosystem.
• This role is designed for a high-impact operator who wants to grow beyond traditional program management and take on increasingly broad business leadership responsibilities.

Pay and benefits

Salary range is $205,000 to $ 260,000 depending on experience, level, and business need. This role may be eligible for discretionary bonus, incentives and benefits.

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.