She has a deep respect for our approach to product, our customer obsession, and our unique culture. Before Salesforce she spent four years leading product at Sonos where she fell in love with Slack.

She's right at that little diamond-shaped heart in the four-circle Venn diagram of smart, humble, hardworking, and collaborative. She's pragmatic and practical, insightful, passionate, creative, kind, and curious. He's going to keep the bar high, and then keep pushing it higher.Īs for Jones, Butterfield reportedly had a major hand in selecting her as his replacement, telling Slack staffers: In his seven years (!) as part of Slack he's led product development in nearly every area at one point or another, and the ambition of our product strategy owes a lot to his leadership. And Slack's own Noah Weiss is the new Chief Product Officer. Slack is in safe hands, according to Butterfield:Ĭal remains the CTO which is good because he's plainly, no exaggeration, the best CTO in the world. Slack co-founder Cal Henderson remains in situ as CTO, while the new Chief Product Officer is Noah Weiss. Slack Chief Product Officer Tamar Yehoshua and Jonathan Price, Senior Vice-President of Marketing, Brand and Communications, are also departing. So I'm going to work on some personal projects, focus on health, and try to learn as many new things as I can. Can I tell you something? I fantasize about gardening. Though it may sounds hackneyed, I actually am going to spend more time with my family. I am not going off to do something entrepreneurial. We started this company 13.5 years ago (though it's 'only' been 10 years since we started development of Slack itself).

Before joining Salesforce in 2019, Jones spent 12 years at Microsoft and four at Sonos.Įxplaining his departure in an email to staff, Butterfield said: He will be replaced at Slack by Lidiane Jones, currently Executive VP & GM, Experience Cloud, Commerce Cloud and Marketing Cloud. The two departures are not connected - Butterfield says his move has been in the planning for several months. Stewart Butterfield is stepping down as CEO of Salesforce’s Slack subsidiary at the end of January, the same time that Bret Taylor, co-CEO of the parent firm is scheduled to make his own departure.

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