Microsoft executive Ryan Roslansky, who led the software company's LinkedIn subsidiary for six years, will leave at the end of 2026. Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, announced the departure in a Thursday memo.
"Ryan leaves the organization in a strong position," Nadella wrote in his message to employees.
Alongside other technology heavyweights, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft has been trying to evolve and take advantage of the rise of generative artificial intelligence. Gaming head Phil Spencer and Office leader Rajesh Jha both left this year, and Charlie Bell, the company's head of security, became an individual contributor.
Roslansky joined LinkedIn as product chief in 2009, when it was still private. Previously, he had held management roles at Yahoo and Glam Media. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $27 billion in 2016. In 2020, Roslansky replaced Jeff Weiner as LinkedIn CEO. During Roslansky's tenure, LinkedIn's membership expanded from 700 million to 1.3 billion.
In 2025, Roslansky took on additional responsibility in Microsoft's Office productivity software group. Earlier this year, Nadella named Roslansky and two other executives as leaders of the Microsoft 365 applications and the Copilot artificial intelligence platform, and Dan Shapero, LinkedIn's chief operating officer, became the professional social network's CEO.
Nadella noted Roslansky's contributions to the unified Copilot app, which Microsoft announced last week.
"With Copilot, we are executing rapidly against our vision to build a new OS for work that spans every model, every form factor, and every task, with Office fully embedded in Copilot and vice versa! Over the past year, Ryan's team has done critical work bringing together the product, engineering, and design foundations that have made this next phase possible."
In July, Microsoft disclosed that LinkedIn revenue growth for the June fiscal year sped up to 11% from less than 9% a year earlier. Weeks earlier, Reid Hoffman, a LinkedIn co-founder, announced plans to leave Microsoft's board, which he joined in 2017.
Roslansky told workers in a memo that he was Weiner's first hire at LinkedIn, and he's been inspired by the progress in Office around AI.
"I know what it would take for me to lead the next phase of this work well: being in Redmond full time, every day," Roslansky wrote. "But my life and my family's life are here in the Bay Area."