Microsoft is losing another experienced executive. Julia Lewis, head of Microsoft’s developer division (DevDiv), is resigning from the software giant after 34 years. Lewison led Microsoft’s developer business for the past 12 years, during which period Microsoft focused more on open source projects and acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion.
According to an internal memo, Lewson will remain as head of DevDiv until the end of June, and then move into an “advisory role,” reporting to Microsoft CoreAI head Jay Parikh. The Verge. It was not immediately clear who would replace Liuson, or whether the DevDiv team would report to Parikh in the coming months.
“I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and in January I shared with Satya [Nadella] and Jai [Parikh] “I feel the time is right to make this move. I am proud of how DevDiv is recognized as one of the most customer-focused teams, and we are known for providing product truth where customers choose to use our product,” Lewson said in his memo.
Liusson’s departure comes less than a year after the resignation of former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. Microsoft never replaced Dohmke as CEO, and the rest of GitHub’s leadership team now report directly to Microsoft’s CoreAI team. Leussen was responsible for overseeing GitHub’s revenue, engineering, and support after Dohmke’s departure.
Lewson is the latest in a line of executive departures at Microsoft in recent months. Former Xbox chief Phil Spencer also announced his retirement from Microsoft in February, with former Xbox president Sarah Bond resigning from the company. Rajesh Jha, Microsoft’s head of experiences and devices, announced his retirement from Microsoft last month, after more than 35 years at the company.
Jha’s departure led to a decline in Microsoft’s upper management of products like Windows and Office, allowing leaders of these divisions to report directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft also appointed a new Copilot boss last month, with the changes seeing Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman focus on the company’s own AI models rather than working directly on Copilot’s assistant-like features for consumers.
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