Director, Product Line Management - Custom Silicon

<div class="content-intro"><p><span data-teams="true">Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. By collaborating with hyperscalers and ecosystem partners, Astera Labs enables organizations to unlock the full potential of modern AI. Astera Labs’ Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates CXL®, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe®, and UALink™ semiconductor-based technologies with the company’s COSMOS software suite to unify diverse components into cohesive, flexible systems that deliver end-to-end scale-up, and scale-out connectivity. The company’s custom connectivity solutions business complements its standards-based portfolio, enabling customers to deploy tailored architectures to meet their unique infrastructure requirements. Discover more at <a id="menurhut" class="fui-Link ___1q1shib f2hkw1w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1s184ao f1mk8lai fnbmjn9 f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn" href="http://www.asteralabs.com/" target="_blank">www.asteralabs.com</a>.</span></p></div><p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>Astera Labs is seeking an experienced Director, Product Line Management - Custom Silicon to lead strategic customer engagements for our growing Custom Solutions business. This is a senior individual contributor role, equivalent in scope to a Director-level position, with no direct people management responsibility.</p> <p> </p> <p>This is not a traditional product management role focused on a single merchant product line. You will serve as the business and technical leader for custom silicon opportunities—partnering directly with hyperscalers, AI labs, and emerging AI infrastructure companies to understand their architectures, identify opportunities, define engagement and commercial models, and guide programs from concept through production.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own product and business strategy for Astera Labs’ Custom Solutions portfolio.</li> <li>Build trusted relationships with hyperscalers, AI infrastructure providers, AI labs, and other strategic customers.</li> <li>Understand customer architectures and translate technical and business requirements into differentiated custom silicon solutions.</li> <li>Define solution roadmaps, product strategies, and customer engagement models for custom silicon programs.</li> <li>Lead customer roadmap discussions, executive business reviews, and technical strategy sessions.</li> <li>Partner with Architecture, ASIC Design, Firmware, Software, Validation, Product Applications, Sales, Marketing, and Operations to execute customer programs.</li> <li>Develop business cases, commercial frameworks, pricing strategies, and lifecycle plans for custom engagements.</li> <li>Drive competitive analysis, market intelligence, and positioning across the custom silicon landscape.</li> <li>Create customer-facing materials, including solution briefs, white papers, executive presentations, and technical messaging.</li> <li>Identify and cultivate new opportunities that expand Astera Labs’ presence across hyperscale, AI, and cloud infrastructure customers.</li> <li>Influence cross-functional execution from initial opportunity assessment through production ramp, without direct people-management responsibility.</li> </ul> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>What Success Looks Like in the First Year</strong></p> <ul> <li>Secure multiple custom silicon desig