Senior Principal Program Manager, Business Acceleration

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.
About Astera Labs
Astera Labs is a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions that enable AI and cloud infrastructure. Our products help the world's leading technology companies build scalable, high-performance computing and AI systems.
We are looking for a technical, high-energy Senior Principal Program Manager, Business Acceleration to help drive execution across some of Astera Labs' most strategically important customer and business initiatives.
This is a highly visible role that works directly with senior leadership and partners across Sales, Product, Engineering, Field Applications, Supply Chain, and other functions to identify execution gaps, drive accountability, and accelerate business outcomes.
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.