Sonos’ Chief Product Officer Is Leaving The Company

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A clip aft Sonos announced a CEO transition, nan institution is making overmuch moves. Chief merchandise serviceman Maxime Bouvat-Merlin will too beryllium leaving his position. Some labour personification told maine that Bouvat-Merlin shares a important magnitude of blasted for nan marque harm that Sonos has endured complete nan past twelvemonth aft deciding to merchandise an overhauled mobile app bully earlier it was caller for customers. There personification been reports that apical executives astatine nan institution ignored warnings from engineers and app testers that nan caller package wasn’t up to par up of its May rollout. Those alarms didn’t extremity it from shipping.

In an email to staff, interim CEO Tom Conrad — who himself has plentifulness of merchandise acquisition — said nan CPO position is now “redundant” and that Bouvat-Merlin’s business is being eliminated. “I cognize this is simply a batch of alteration to sorb successful 2 days and I want to convey you for being resilient,” Conrad wrote.

“Max’s tenure represents an iconic era for Sonos products, including nan award-winning Sonos One, Beam, Move, Ace, Arc, and Arc Ultra, establishing Sonos arsenic nan world leader successful location theatre audio and mounting nan instauration for our adjacent chapter,” Conrad’s email reads.

Bouvat-Merlin will work arsenic an advisor to Conrad earlier afloat exiting nan company. These awesome changes incorrect Sonos’ ranks propose that nan institution is taking its effort to triumph backmost spot and correct nan wrongs of its erstwhile activity alternatively seriously.

Conrad’s afloat email follows below:

Team,

Earlier this morning, I committed to you to banal nan truth. In that spirit, I want to banal immoderate changes I americium making to simplify our activity building and flatten our Product organization.

With my stepping successful arsenic CEO, nan Board, Max, and I personification agreed that my inheritance makes nan Chief Product Officer domiciled redundant. Therefore, Max’s domiciled is being eliminated and nan Product connection will study consecutive to me. I’ve asked Max to counsel maine complete nan adjacent play to guarantee a soft modulation and I americium grateful that he’s agreed to do that.

Max’s tenure represents an iconic era for Sonos products, including nan award-winning Sonos One, Beam, Move, Ace, Arc and Arc Ultra, establishing Sonos arsenic nan world leader successful location theatre audio and mounting nan instauration for our adjacent chapter. These achievements are a testament to nan talent, passion, and productivity that specify our Product team, and Max has been a starring information of each of that.

I shared this news openly pinch nan Sonos leaders yesterday pinch nan volition that these leaders would banal nan update arsenic needed pinch their teams. Unfortunately this news quickly made its measurement extracurricular nan organization. While this is frustrating for each of us, I will not fto nan anticipation of a leak alteration our expertise to walk openly pinch 1 another. So I’m going to support telling you nan truth.

I cognize this is simply a batch of alteration to sorb successful 2 days and I want to convey you for your resilience, continued committedness to Sonos and support of each different during this time.

Tom