P6P6 — Principal Professional
Principal Advisory
Directs regulatory affairs across multiple products or business units. Crafts company-wide regulatory policies.
What this level means
Top individual contributor; recognized authority with strategic impact, equivalent to a low executive level
- Scope
- Organization-wide architecture and the hardest problems
- Autonomy
- Defines direction; minimal oversight
- Complexity
- Strategic, open-ended problems shaping the technical future
- Impact
- Organization-wide
- Decision rights
- Sets technical strategy for a major area
- Leadership
- Recognized authority; multiplies many teams
- Typical experience
- 12–18 yrs
What you'd do
- Directs regulatory affairs
- Crafts regulatory policies
- Leads multiple product initiatives
- Ensures policy alignment
- Manages regulatory affairs teams
- Provides strategic regulatory advice
- Collaborates with executive management
- Ensures policy compliance
- Represents regulatory affairs at executive level
- Drives policy innovation
- Direct regulatory affairs
- Craft regulatory policies
- Lead multiple product initiatives
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Regulatory affairs direction
- Policy crafting
- Multi-product leadership
- Strategic regulatory advice
- Executive collaboration
- Policy compliance assurance
- Regulatory representation
- Policy innovation
- Regulatory affairs direction
- Policy crafting techniques
- Multi-product leadership
- Strategic regulatory advice
- Executive collaboration dynamics
- Policy compliance standards
- Regulatory representation protocols
- Policy innovation techniques
- Visionary outlook
- High-level stakeholder management
- Regulatory policy development
- Multi-product leadership
- Strategic regulatory advice
- Executive collaboration
- Policy compliance
- Innovation in policy development
What good looks like
- 10–15 years experience
- Visionary leadership in regulatory affairs
- High-level stakeholder management skills
Common titles
Regulatory Affairs VIRegulatory Affairs 6Principal Regulatory AffairsPrincipal Advisory
Where it sits & what it pays
O*NET / SOC: 11-9199.01 — Regulatory Affairs Managers
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are coming — JobFrame anchors pay to the family/level structure rather than the raw title.