Senior Principal Executive Recruiter

The role

The Senior Principal Executive Recruiter will serve as a strategic talent advisor to executive leaders. You will translate business priorities into proactive executive talent strategies to support company growth.

What you will do

• Partner with executive leaders to understand business priorities, organizational design, and capability gaps
• Develop rolling six-month executive talent plans
• Translate business growth plans into recommendations on capabilities, leadership profiles, and talent pools
• Analyze semiconductor and silicon talent markets, competitor activity, talent availability, and leadership trends
• Partner with stakeholders to surface emerging capability needs and shape proactive talent strategies
• Build and maintain relationships with high-impact executives to create durable pipelines
• Develop targeted talent maps for engineering and other executive functions
• Create engagement strategies to keep priority talent connected to the company
• Advise senior stakeholders on leadership profiles, assessment criteria, and timing
• Establish search strategy and decision frameworks and guide execution from kickoff through close

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant recruiting or talent acquisition experience
• At least 5 years focused on executive recruiting
• Proven recruiting experience within the semiconductor, silicon, or adjacent hardware technology industry
• Ability to understand organizational priorities, diagnose leadership gaps, and turn business needs into proactive talent plans
• Track record advising VP, C-suite, and other executive-level stakeholders on critical talent decisions
• Success closing candidates from Senior Director through C-suite roles
• Excellent judgment, discretion, communication skills, and ability to influence senior leaders

Nice to have

• Experience leading executive talent reviews, succession planning, workforce planning, or organization-design initiatives
• Experience building talent intelligence frameworks that connect business strategy, capability gaps, market data, and future hiring priorities
• Established long-term relationships with senior leaders across semiconductor, silicon, hardware, systems, or related AI infrastructure markets
• Experience partnering with CEOs, executive leadership teams, and board-level stakeholders on multi-year leadership planning
• Experience recruiting across multiple executive functions, including engineering, product, operations, sales, or go-to-market leadership

Benefits

• discretionary bonus
• incentives
• benefits

About the company

Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. The company's Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates semiconductor-based technologies with the COSMOS software suite.