Reddit is looking for a new product boss

Reddit's first-ever main merchandise officer, Pali Bhat, is leaving the institution successful "the coming months," spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt confirmed to The Verge. Bhat, a erstwhile Google executive, joined Reddit successful October 2021.

"His tenure was astir arsenic wide pre / station trial arsenic we could run," CEO Steve Huffman said successful an interior connection astir the alteration provided by Rathschmidt. "He developed a civilization of execution, built a talented team, raised the bar, and navigated immoderate of the astir challenging and important moments successful our history."

The institution is actively looking for a caller merchandise leader, Rathschmidt said. In the meantime, COO Jennifer Wong volition oversee idiosyncratic maturation initiatives, CTO Chris Slowe volition oversee engineering, and Huffman volition "continue to" thrust Reddit's semipermanent merchandise vision. "We're inactive focused connected expanding globally, gathering a large advertisement product, improving search, and making the halfway merchandise better," Rathschmidt said.

Bhat has served arsenic CPO arsenic the institution rolled retired initiatives similar features to marque Reddit simpler and an AI hunt tool. His clip besides overlapped with the immense protests connected the level implicit API pricing that forced fashionable apps similar Apollo to unopen down - pro …

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