A 15-year veteran of Amazon’s gadgets division who had a hand in growing most of the most recognizable devices is leaving the corporate on the finish of October, marking the second high-level departure in October.
Lindo St. Angel, vp of {hardware} for Lab126, plans to depart subsequent week, Amazon confirmed following a Reuters inquiry. The circumstances of his departure couldn’t be realized and St. Angel didn’t reply to a request for remark.
“We are grateful for his many contributions to Amazon and wish him the best,” mentioned a spokesperson in an emailed assertion, with out offering further particulars about St. Angel.
Earlier this month, Reuters reported, Rob Williams, gadget software program and companies vp, and a member of the elite inner group advising CEO Andy Jassy mentioned he had left his submit. He will stay with the corporate via 12 months’s finish in an advisory function to gadgets chief Panos Panay.
The gadgets and companies unit is working to show round years of unprofitability, together with via layoffs and a slimmed-down product lineup. Amazon is overhauling its Fire pill computer systems with Android working software program for the primary time, Reuters reported in August, in an effort to make them extra broadly interesting. But a multi-year challenge to replace its Alexa voice assistant with embedded generative synthetic intelligence has rolled out slowly with no clear path to profitability.
Less than a month in the past, Amazon confirmed off its lineup of latest gadgets at an occasion in New York, together with refreshed Echo audio system, Fire TV streaming gadgets, Kindle readers and Ring cameras.
In his management function, St. Angel helped oversee growth of such numerous gadgets because the Echo voice assistant speaker, Astro robotic and Fire pill. His final day is October 31.
Amazon shares had been up 1.1% to $220.36 on Thursday.