P7P7 — Staff / Distinguished Professional
Principal Strategist
Defines enterprise-wide vision strategy. Aligns computer vision roadmap with corporate objectives.
What this level means
Staff-level individual contributor: owns architecture across systems, sets technical direction, and multiplies the output of multiple teams without managing people.
- Scope
- Cross-organization / enterprise technical strategy
- Autonomy
- Operates autonomously at the enterprise level
- Complexity
- Industry-level, highly ambiguous problems
- Impact
- Enterprise-wide
- Decision rights
- Final technical authority across multiple domains
- Leadership
- Sets technical direction org-wide; develops principals
- Typical experience
- 15–22 yrs
What you'd do
- Defines enterprise-wide vision strategy
- Aligns computer vision roadmap with corporate objectives
- Define vision strategy
- Align roadmap
- Influence corporate objectives
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Enterprise strategy
- Vision alignment
- Corporate strategy
- Influence
- Enterprise strategy
- Vision alignment
- Corporate objectives
- Strategic influence
- Strategic Vision
- Influence
Common titles
Staff Computer VisionDistinguished Computer VisionStaff Machine LearningDistinguished Machine LearningPrincipal Strategist
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
O*NET / SOC: 15-0000 — Computer & Mathematical Occupations (inferred)