Xbox CEO Announces Leadership Overhaul

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced a major leadership overhaul on Tuesday in an internal memo to staff, promoting veteran employees and bringing in executives from Microsoft's CoreAI group and Instacart to address operational challenges and refocus the division.

Sharma, who assumed the role in February following Phil Spencer's retirement, wrote that Xbox must "evolve how we work and how we are organized across our platform." She stated, "Right now, it is too hard to ship impact quickly. We spend too much time inward instead of with the community, and we lack the depth we need in some of the fundamentals." The changes aim to promote leaders who built Xbox while adding new expertise to build "a platform that is affordable, personal, and open by staying close to the work and the people we serve."

Key additions include four executives from CoreAI, where Sharma previously served as president of product. Jared Palmer, formerly vice president of product at CoreAI and a senior vice president at GitHub, joins as a member of technical staff overseeing product, engineering, developer tools, infrastructure, and related areas. Tim Allen, a former CoreAI vice president of design and GitHub senior...