Executive changes continue at Microsoft with the resignation of the head of the developer division

Microsoft is losing another veteran executive. Julia Liuson, Microsoft’s chief development officer (DevDiv), has decided to resign from the software giant after 34 years. Liuson has spent the past 12 years leading Microsoft’s developer business, during a period when Microsoft focused more on open source projects and… Acquired by GitHub For $7.5 billion.

Lawson will continue as head of DevDiv until the end of June, after which he will move into an “advisory role” reporting to Microsoft CoreAI president Jay Parikh, according to an internal memo seen by Edge. It’s not immediately clear who will replace Liuson, or whether the DevDiv team will report to Parikh in the coming months instead.

“I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and in January I shared with Satya (Nadella) and Jay (Parekh) that the timing seemed right for me to take this step,” Lawson says in her note. “I’m proud of how DevDiv is recognized as one of the most customer-focused teams, and we’re known for delivering product truth as customers choose to use our product.”

Lawson’s departure comes less than a year after his departure Former GitHub CEO Thomas Domke resigns. Microsoft never replaced Dohmke’s CEO role, and the rest of GitHub’s leadership team now reports directly to Microsoft’s CoreAI team. Liuson was responsible for overseeing GitHub’s revenue, engineering, and support following Dohmke’s departure.

Liuson is the latest in a series of executive departures at Microsoft in recent months. Former Xbox head Phil Spencer, too He announced his retirement From Microsoft in February, along with the resignation of former Xbox head Sarah Bond from the company. Microsoft’s head of experiences and devices, Rajesh Jha, then He announced his own retirement From Microsoft last month, after more than 35 years with the company.

Jha’s departure flattened Microsoft’s senior management to products like Windows and Office, allowing leaders of those divisions to report directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft too A new chief copilot was appointed last monthwith changes that have seen Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman focus on the company’s own AI models rather than working directly on Assistant-like features in Copilot for consumers.