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 www.asteralabs.com.
Role Overview
Astera Labs is seeking a Senior HR Business Partner to join our People team in San Jose, CA. In this high-impact role, you will partner directly with leaders across our Business and G&A functions—including Finance, Legal, Operations, and other corporate teams—serving as a trusted advisor on all things people strategy.
This is an exceptional opportunity for someone who thrives on working closely with senior stakeholders, navigating real complexity, and helping organizations scale thoughtfully during a period of hypergrowth.
As a key member of our HR team, you will operate with support from HR Operations and Centers of Excellence while driving meaningful impact on organizational effectiveness, talent development, and leadership capability across the company.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Business Partnership
- Act as a trusted partner to senior leaders, advising on organizational design, leadership effectiveness, workforce planning, and succession planning
- Help leaders translate business priorities into clear people strategies and actionable plans
- Build strong, credible relationships where leaders rely on your judgment—not just your availability
- Organizational Effectiveness & Talent Strategy
- Support org effectiveness, role clarity, and succession planning for critical and leadership roles
- Partner with leaders on headcount planning and trade-offs, balancing execution needs, and long-term capability building
- Lead talent reviews, retention planning, and hotspot analysis, ensuring insights turn into action
- Coach managers and senior leaders on performance management, development conversations, and leadership effectiveness
- Performance, Rewards & Employee Relations
- Advise leaders through performance cycles, calibration, and compensation reviews, ensuring fair, consistent, and well-reasoned outcomes
- Handle employee relations matters—including performance issues, conflict, and conduct concerns—using sound judgment and strong documentation
- Partner closely with Employment Counsel, Legal, and HR Operations on complex or high-risk situations
- Provide leaders with clear, empathetic, and practical guidance on sensitive people matters
- Operational Excellence & Scalability
- Identify people or structural risks early and work with leaders to address them proactively
- Help shape how HR practices scale by partnering with HR Ops and Centers of Excellence to simplify, standardize, or move work to the right owners
- Take initiative to spot gaps, propose solutions, and drive progress—operating with an owner's mindset
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field
- 8+ years of experience as an HR Business Partner supporting senior leaders in complex, fast-growing technology organizations
- Demonstrated experience partnering across both product/engineering and corporate functions
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguous environments where not everything is fully defined
- Clear, confident communicator who can influence at all levels of the organization
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in semiconductor, hardware, or AI infrastructure industries
- Track record of supporting organizations through rapid scaling or hypergrowth phases
- Strong analytical skills with experience using people data to drive decisions
Salary range is $133,200 to $185,000 depending on experience, level, and business need. This role may be eligible for discretionary bonus, incentives and benefits.
We know that creativity and innovation happen more often when teams include diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences, and we actively encourage everyone with relevant experience to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ+ and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field
- 8+ years of experience as an HR Business Partner
- Demonstrated experience partnering across product/engineering and corporate functions
- Strong knowledge of organizational design, talent management, performance management, and employee relations
- Clear, confident communicator who can influence at all levels of the organization
What We Do
Astera Labs Inc., a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, is a leader in purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems throughout the data center. Partnering with leading processor vendors, cloud service providers, seasoned investors, and world-class manufacturing companies, Astera Labs is helping customers remove performance bottlenecks in data-intensive systems that are limiting the true potential of applications such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company’s product portfolio includes system-aware semiconductor integrated circuits, boards, and services to enable robust CXL, PCIe, and Ethernet connectivity.
