Principal Product Manager, Fiber Connectivity

The role

You will define a portfolio of passive optical connectivity solutions and drive products from concept through production. This role involves setting customer-driven requirements and managing the link between AI system architecture and commercial product adoption.

What you will do

• Define the product strategy and multi-year roadmap for passive optical connectivity.
• Identify target applications, market opportunities, technology transitions, and competitive threats.
• Set customer-driven product attribute targets and make tradeoffs.
• Develop go-to-market strategy and launch plans.
• Execute product development from concept through sustaining support.
• Lead cross-functional relationships across multiple departments.
• Establish manufacturing, supplier, automation, quality, reliability, test, yield, capacity, and cost-reduction strategies.
• Partner with sales and applications teams to secure design wins and drive adoption.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, materials science, business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in product management, product line management, engineering, applications, business development, or a related function.
• Experience developing and commercializing complex hardware products.
• Experience in optics, photonics, fiber optics, optical connectivity, optical packaging, or a related technology.
• Experience working across engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, sales, and commercial organizations.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Willingness to travel internationally as needed.

Nice to have

• MBA or advanced technical degree.
• Market knowledge of AI, cloud, networking, data center, server, and high performance computing infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of passive optical connectivity, optical coupling, fiber assemblies, connectors, alignment, and optical and mechanical tolerances.
• Experience with co-packaged optics, near-package optics, optical I/O, scale-up optical interconnects, or related emerging architectures.
• Experience with high-volume manufacturing, supplier qualification, new product introduction, or production ramp.
• Proven ability to work directly with hyperscalers, major system companies and optical ecosystem partners

Benefits

• discretionary bonus
• incentives
• benefits

About the company

Astera Labs provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. The company integrates semiconductor-based technologies with the COSMOS software suite to deliver end-to-end connectivity.