Sonos is continuing to clean house as the company recovers from the hits it took following a mobile app redesign last year. Just a day after CEO Patrick Spence the company, chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is also leaving. He will act as an advisor to interim CEO Tom Conrad during the leadership transition before fully exiting Sonos.
Conrad Sonos employees about the latest leadership change in a company-wide email today. The CPO role is being made redundant, with Sonos’ product team reporting directly to Conrad for the time being.
Sonos has been in a tailspin since releasing a mobile app update in May that contained many bugs and was missing key features. The company’s financial results took a dive, and it laid off about in August. Sonos has made several efforts to keep customers of its to recover from the app launch, and the decision to replace top leadership seems like the latest move to win back public trust in the business.
