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.
