Microsoft’s Bold 2026 Reorg: Microsoft Puts Teams Under LinkedIn Chief Ryan Roslansky in Major AI‑First Reorg

Microsoft is shaking up its leadership stack again, putting Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Teams under a tighter, AI‑first structure that reports directly to CEO Satya Nadella. The move elevates LinkedIn chief Ryan Roslansky, low‑code and business apps leader Charles Lamanna, longtime infrastructure lead Perry Clarke, and Windows and Surface boss Pavan Davuluri into an even more central role in how Microsoft builds tools for work.

Ryan Roslansky now owns Office, LinkedIn, and Teams

Ryan Roslansky is expanding beyond his LinkedIn CEO job and recently added responsibility for Microsoft Office and the M365 Copilot app; he will now also oversee the Microsoft Teams organization as part of a new Work Experiences Group focused on how people collaborate across Microsoft 365. This means Teams, Office, and LinkedIn will be steered under a single leader for the first time, signaling Microsoft’s intent to treat work communications, documents, and professional identity as one integrated ecosystem. As first detailed by Tom Warren at The Verge, Roslansky’s expanded portfolio puts one of Microsoft’s most social‑ and growth‑oriented executives at the center of its productivity strategy.

Rajesh Jha’s retirement triggers a wider reshuffle

The reorg follows the retirement decision of Rajesh Jha, who has led Microsoft’s Experiences + Devices group and spent more than 35 years at the company overseeing Windows, Office, Microsoft 365, and Copilot. With Jha stepping down, Microsoft is splitting his vast remit across multiple executive vice presidents who will now report directly to Satya Nadella as Microsoft doubles down on AI‑powered productivity. This marks a move away from a single, umbrella E+D organization toward a set of tightly focused leaders responsible for apps, AI platforms, devices, and core infrastructure.

Lamanna takes over Copilot, agents, and platform

Charles Lamanna, who has quickly risen through Microsoft’s ranks via Power Platform and business applications, is taking charge of a new Copilot, Agents, and Platform (CAP) group. This CAP unit will cover key Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 services, internal collaboration tools like BizChat, and underlying data and growth teams, effectively making Lamanna the point person for how Copilot and AI agents show up across Microsoft’s business cloud. Microsoft 365 Core, OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP), and Data Platform and Growth (DPG) are all being consolidated into Lamanna’s organization to align AI experiences with the underlying data layers they depend on.

Teper and Koenigsbauer move under AI apps

Veteran exec Jeff Teper will now serve as executive vice president of apps and agents under Lamanna, putting him back over core collaboration apps and new AI‑driven experiences. Alongside him, Kirk Koenigsbauer becomes president of Data Platform and Growth, responsible for scaling the usage and monetization of Microsoft 365’s data‑heavy services. The combination places long‑time Office leaders directly inside Microsoft’s new AI and platform‑oriented structure, rather than in a traditional product‑only silo.

Windows, Surface, and Intentional Software under Davuluri

Pavan Davuluri, who currently leads the Windows and Devices Group and oversees Surface hardware, will continue in that role but also take on the Intentional Software team Microsoft acquired in 2017. That group includes technical fellow Charles Simonyi, a legendary figure inside Microsoft who helped create Excel and Word before founding Intentional Software in 2002. Moving Intentional under Davuluri further connects Windows, devices, and experimental software concepts at a time when Microsoft is trying to embed Copilot and custom agents directly into the operating system and hardware.

Perry Clarke becomes CTO of Application Systems

Perry Clarke, who has spent nearly a decade running Microsoft 365 Core, will step into the role of CTO of Application Systems. In that position, he will focus on the overall systems architecture across Microsoft 365 and Copilot, including how these services compose with different model families, Azure cloud infrastructure, and silicon. Internal notes from leadership describe Clarke’s engineering rigor and “customer obsession” as foundational for the next wave of AI‑powered products and capabilities rolling out of Microsoft’s productivity stack.

New reporting lines to Nadella

Under this updated structure, Lamanna, Davuluri, Clarke, and Roslansky will all report directly to CEO Satya Nadella once Jha formally exits the company this summer. Microsoft says the new model is meant to accelerate decision‑making around Copilot, data platforms, and devices by placing the leaders of each pillar in Nadella’s immediate staff. The Experiences and Devices organization in its previous form effectively ends this week as the new teams take shape and begin operating under their revised charters.

Voluntary retirement program for long‑serving employees

At the same time, Microsoft is preparing to roll out its first‑ever voluntary retirement program in the United States, aimed at long‑tenured employees as it rebalances its workforce for the AI era. U.S. workers whose age plus years of service equal 70 or more will be eligible, with estimates suggesting roughly 7 percent of Microsoft’s domestic workforce could qualify under the formula. Eligible employees, largely at senior director level and below and excluding certain sales roles, will receive details this week and have a limited window to decide whether to take the one‑time package.

What this means for Microsoft 365 and Teams users

For customers, the biggest immediate impact is that Office, Teams, LinkedIn, Dynamics, and Microsoft 365’s core services are now organized under leaders explicitly tasked with delivering AI‑first experiences rather than separate productivity and cloud silos. With Roslansky driving work experiences, Lamanna owning the Copilot and agents platform, and Clarke defining the systems architecture, Microsoft is clearly betting that its future growth comes from deeply integrated AI copilots running on unified data and infrastructure. Expect to see faster iterations across Teams, Office, and LinkedIn, along with more consistent Copilot behavior across Windows, business apps, and the broader Microsoft 365 suite over the next year.