Principal AI Product Manager

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. Discover more at www.asteralabs.com . Principal AI Product Manager: About the role Astera Labs’ Applied AI team works to accelerate business outcomes through the use of AI as the company scales. We’re seeking a Principal AI Product Manager to set direction and lead execution for AI-enabled products and workflows used across the business. You’ll connect business priorities and user needs to a clear product strategy, then guide cross-functional teams from opportunity discovery through delivery, adoption, and measurable results. This is a senior, hands-on product leadership role. You’ll lead discovery, prioritization, requirements, and execution across business and technical teams, while staying close enough to the technology to prototype, assess trade-offs, and guide responsible implementation. The focus is on creating scalable solutions that solve meaningful business problems—not deploying AI for its own sake. What you’ll do • Own the strategy, portfolio, and multi-quarter roadmap for Applied AI products and workflow solutions, aligned to company priorities and business outcomes. • Partner with business leaders and end users to identify high-value opportunities, understand current workflows, quantify pain points, and validate product hypotheses. • Prioritize opportunities using a clear framework that considers user value, business impact, feasibility, risk, dependencies, scalability, and time to value. • Translate needs into product vision, requirements, user journeys, success measures, and appropriately scoped delivery plans. • Lead cross-functional execution with Applied AI, engineering, IT, security, data, and business partners; align owners, decisions, dependencies, milestones, and trade-offs. • Stay hands-on with AI tools and rapid prototyping, using platforms such as Glean, Claude Code, and approved automation tools to test concepts and inform product decisions. • Set standards for product quality and evaluation, including accuracy, reliability, user experience, adoption, and human review where appropriate. • Establish and track outcomes such as adoption, time saved, cycle-time reduction, quality, user satisfaction, and business impact; use results to refine roadmaps and investment choices. • Guide launch, change management, enablement, documentation, and feedback loops so solutions are adopted and sustained. • Embed privacy, security, responsible AI, access controls, and appropriate human oversight throughout discovery, design, development, and rollout. • Communicate product strategy, progress, risks, and recommendations clearly to senior leaders and working teams; build alignment when priorities or perspectives differ. • Improve repeatable product practices for AI discovery, prioritization, evaluation, delivery, and adoption as the Applied AI function scales. What we’re looking for • Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • 10+ years of relevant experience in product management,