Senior Principal Program Manager, Business Acceleration

The role

This person will drive execution across strategic customer and business initiatives. They will work with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to identify execution gaps and accelerate business outcomes.

What you will do

• 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.
• Hold cross-functional stakeholders accountable for commitments.
• Develop and maintain a view of major AI infrastructure buildout programs.
• Work with Sales, Product Marketing, and Product Management to understand customer programs and market dynamics.
• Build customer and market heatmaps.
• Own programs designed to accelerate growth and close execution gaps.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline
• Significant experience in program management, product operations, business acceleration, product management, or a related cross-functional role within the semiconductor, hardware, connectivity, comput
• 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.
• 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.

Nice to have

• advanced degree
• Experience working with semiconductor, connectivity, networking, compute, storage, or AI infrastructure products is highly desirable

Benefits

• discretionary bonus
• incentives
• benefits

About the company

Astera Labs is a global leader in semiconductor-based connectivity solutions that enable AI and cloud infrastructure. The company provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions.