"As AI tools get more powerful, the value of high-leverage individuals is rising. The most prized employees today are "player-coaches," people who ship work themselves while also guiding projects, mentoring peers, and shaping strategy. AI makes that hybrid role even more potent, allowing a single strong contributor to amplify their output, and their influence, without managing a large team, Musa wrote this week."
"Meta's overhauled performance system is the latest and most striking example. Under its new "Checkpoint" program, standout employees can earn bonuses worth up to 300% of their target. That's tens of thousands of extra dollars tied purely to impact, not promotions or title changes. Google is loosening the funnel into its top performance buckets and shifting more bonus and equity upward. Amazon is doubling down on sustained excellence, allowing long-term top performers to earn above traditional pay-band caps."
Silicon Valley companies are concentrating compensation at the top by offering outsized bonuses and equity to high-impact employees. Programs let standout contributors earn large, impact-tied payouts while firms loosen criteria for top performance buckets and allow sustained top performers to exceed pay-band caps. Powerful AI tools increase the leverage of individuals who both execute and mentor—so-called player-coaches—enabling senior individual contributors to match or surpass manager compensation without managing large teams. Execution amplified by AI compounds value and influence, reviving the individual contributor career track and making pay increasingly performance-driven.
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