LinkedIn's Ryan Roslansky will leave Microsoft
Ryan Roslansky is stepping down after nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, with the Microsoft 365 and LinkedIn leadership split across four executives.
Ryan Roslansky is leaving Microsoft. The executive vice president of LinkedIn and Microsoft 365, who joined LinkedIn as Jeff Weiner's first hire in 2009, told staff on 1 October 2026 that he will step away after nearly 18 years, with Satya Nadella announcing the leadership changes in the same update.
An orderly handover, not a scramble
Roslansky is not going anywhere immediately. He stays through the end of the calendar year as an advisor to Nadella and will support the transition, which gives Microsoft a quarter to settle the product and engineering foundations he has been building.
Who moves where
The reporting lines changed on 1 October. Sumit Chauhan and Lan Ye now report to Charles Lamanna, and Jon Friedman reports to Jacob Andreou. Dan Shapero continues as CEO of LinkedIn and Mohak Shroff continues in his current role, with both reporting directly to Nadella.
What Microsoft says it is building
Nadella framed the moment around Copilot, describing the goal as a new operating system for work that spans every model, every form factor and every task, with Office embedded in Copilot and the reverse. He also pointed to LinkedIn's scale, noting the platform serves 1.3 billion members, and thanked Roslansky for work spanning both the product foundations and the professional network itself.
Our opinion
Losing the person who ran both LinkedIn and Microsoft 365 at once is the kind of move that looks tidier on a reporting chart than it does inside a roadmap. Splitting the role across Charles Lamanna, Jacob Andreou and Nadella directly puts the Office and LinkedIn roadmaps closer to the Copilot organisation, which is the real signal here: Microsoft is folding everything that touches work into one AI story rather than running a productivity division and a social network on parallel tracks. The risk is dilution. LinkedIn has spent years as its own business with its own culture, and closer integration with Microsoft 365 makes a monetisation-first decision look that much more likely every quarter.