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Four top executives leave Twitter, Jack Dorsey announces
Jack Dorsey might be doing his utmost to rescue Twitter and make it a viable business, but that hasn’t stopped people jumping ship. In a post published on Twitter, Dorsey announced the departures of executives who oversaw the product, engineering, media and HR teams. The executives include Vice President of Human Resources, Katie Jacobs Stanton, the company’s VP of global media; Kevin Weil, SVP of product; and SVP of engineering Alex Roetter. Also departing Twitter is Jason Joff, GM of Vine.
This is not the first time that Twitter that employees have departed the company since Dorsey’s return. A few weeks into his job Dorsey announced that more than 300 employees were going to lose their jobs.
In a statement, posted to Twitter on Sunday, Dorsey wrote:
“I’m sad to announce that Alex Roetter, Skip Schipper, Katie Stanton, and Kevin Weil have chosen to leave the company. Alex and Kevin, both here over five years, scaled the ads product and engineering teams from producing near-zero revenue to the over-$2 billion run rate it is today…”
Read more: Twitter to shed 300+ jobs
Dorsey offered no replacements for the positions, only announcing that COO Adam Bain and CTO Adam Messinger will be, in the interim, taking on additional responsibilities. The two will split the responsibilities of the now vacant positions amongst themselves. Bain will oversee the revenue-related product teams, the media team, and the HR team. And Messinger will be responsible for the engineering, design, user services and Fabric into one group.
Dorsey endorsed Messinger in the statement posted on Twitter, highlighting that he “has a very strong sense of how to bring our development together so we can continue to ship faster and producer stronger work that people will love to use”
Twitter has not said anything about new appointments for the vacant positions and has refused to confirm the rumours that it is going to hire as its new CMO, Leslie Berland, who is currently EVP of global advertising, marketing and digital partnerships at American Express.
