Memo: Ryan Roslansky, who was promoted from LinkedIn CEO to the head of Office and Teams in 2025, is leaving, triggering another Microsoft executive reshuffle
Ryan Roslansky is leaving after nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft. … After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky is leaving the company.
Context & Ripple Effects
Microsoft first added Office to Ryan Roslansky’s remit in 2025 while he remained LinkedIn CEO, then separated the roles when LinkedIn elevated COO Daniel Shapero to chief executive in April 2026. A month later, Roslansky took charge of the Work Experiences Group, including Teams, after Rajesh Jha’s retirement.
His exit turns that succession sequence into another organizational handoff for Microsoft’s workplace-product leadership, rather than a change in LinkedIn’s sitting CEO. The move follows Microsoft’s earlier decision to put LinkedIn’s chief over Office and its subsequent Work Experiences Group reshuffle.
First-order effects
- Microsoft must reassign leadership of the Office, Teams, and Work Experiences responsibilities that had been consolidated under Roslansky, triggering the confirmed executive reshuffle.
- LinkedIn retains the management separation established with Shapero’s April 2026 appointment, leaving its CEO role distinct from Microsoft’s workplace-product leadership.
Second-order effects
- Office and Teams leaders must adapt to a new reporting structure after two leadership changes in the group during 2026, increasing the importance of continuity across the combined work-product portfolio.
- Microsoft’s decision on a successor will determine whether the company keeps the Office, Teams, and LinkedIn-adjacent work remit concentrated under one executive or distributes it again across leaders.
Third-order effects
- If Microsoft continues to cycle workplace-product responsibilities among different executives, its work-software strategy will be shaped as much by organizational design as by the individual stewardship of Office, Teams, and LinkedIn.
- The sequence points to a broader separation of LinkedIn’s standalone management from Microsoft’s enterprise work-product organization, even as the companies’ leadership paths have remained closely connected.
The trend: Microsoft is repeatedly redesigning leadership around its workplace software portfolio while treating LinkedIn’s CEO role as a separate operating mandate.