Sonos’ chief product officer can be leaving the corporate

Sonos is constant to scrub home as the corporate recovers from the hits it took following a disastrous cellular app redesign final yr. Only a day after CEO Patrick Spence departed the corporate, chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin can be leaving. He’ll act as an advisor to interim CEO Tom Conrad throughout the management transition earlier than absolutely exiting Sonos.

In keeping with The Verge, Conrad informed Sonos workers in regards to the newest management change in a company-wide electronic mail in the present day. The CPO position is being made redundant, with Sonos’ product group reporting on to Conrad in the intervening time.

A day after Bouvat-Merlin was let go, The Verge reported that chief business officer Deirdre Findlay was additionally leaving the corporate. Nonetheless, an inner electronic mail from Conrad clarified that Findlay has no timeline but for her departure and her causes for leaving Sonos should not associated to the current management adjustments.

Sonos has been in a tailspin since releasing a cellular app replace in Could that contained many bugs and was lacking key options. The corporate’s monetary outcomes took a dive, and it laid off about 100 employees in August. Sonos has made a number of efforts to maintain prospects aware of its plans to get better from the app launch, and the choice to exchange high management looks like the newest transfer to win again public belief within the enterprise.

Replace, January 15 2025, 4:50PM ET: This story was up to date to incorporate particulars of Sonos’ chief business officer additionally leaving the corporate.