Sonos loses a decade of design talent as layoffs hit its top ranks
Senior design, product, and research leaders with 10 years or more at the company are out, in a restructuring the chief executive calls speed and some staff call cost-cutting.
“The design team is a little smaller now,” Edward Mitchell, a Sonos designer of roughly 12 years’ standing, wrote on LinkedIn as the audio company parted ways with a swathe of its most senior product and design leaders.
Sonos has pushed out several long-serving executives in recent weeks in cuts that reach far higher up the organisation than a routine trim.
Among those leaving are Dana Krieger, a vice-president of design with 12 years at the company, Kate Wojogbe, a senior user-experience executive of nearly a decade, and Scott Fink, a 15-year veteran who helped build the home-theatre business that gave Sonos much of its living-room identity.
The losses run right through the teams that shape how Sonos products look and...
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