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, technology strategy, business transformation, enterprise systems, AI/automation, or a related discipline, including leadership of complex cross-functional initiatives. 

• Demonstrated success translating business needs into product strategy, prioritized roadmaps, clear requirements, and solutions that deliver measurable outcomes. 

• Experience working with senior stakeholders and diverse cross-functional teams, balancing business goals, user needs, technical constraints, and risk. 

• Practical experience with generative AI, enterprise AI products, workflow automation, or AI-enabled internal tools; able to evaluate where AI is and is not the right solution. 

• Technical fluency sufficient to collaborate credibly with engineering and IT teams, assess solution trade-offs, and prototype or test concepts using AI tools. 

• Strong business acumen and analytical skills, including defining success metrics and using data and user feedback to make prioritization decisions. 

• Excellent organizational skills, including managing a portfolio of initiatives, dependencies, decisions, risks, and stakeholder follow-through. 

• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with a record of communicating complex topics clearly to technical and business audiences. 

• Strong judgment and experience incorporating privacy, security, responsible AI, and human oversight into product decisions. 

Preferred qualifications 

• MBA or advanced degree in a relevant technical or business field. 

• Experience leading AI product or internal AI transformation initiatives from discovery through production rollout and adoption. 

• Hands-on experience with Glean, Claude Code, LLM-based applications, AI agents, or workflow automation platforms. 

• Experience with product analytics, AI evaluation, experimentation, or measuring operational improvement. 

• Experience building AI capabilities or scalable internal products in a high-growth or rapidly evolving organization. 

What success looks like 

• A focused, outcome-based AI product roadmap that business leaders and delivery teams understand and support. 

• High-value AI solutions launched with strong user adoption, responsible controls, and evidence of measurable business impact. 

• Repeatable discovery, prioritization, evaluation, and rollout practices that help Applied AI scale its impact across Astera Labs. 

Base salary range is $185,000 to $240,000 depending on experience, level, and business need. This role may be eligible for discretionary bonus, incentives and benefits.