Xbox COO Helen Chiang Exits After 3 Months as 3,200 Job Cuts Loom
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Updated · IGN · Oct 23
Xbox COO Helen Chiang Exits After 3 Months as 3,200 Job Cuts Loom
3 articles · Updated · IGN · Oct 23
Summary
Helen Chiang left Microsoft on Friday, ending her stint as Xbox’s first chief operating officer just three months after CEO Asha Sharma created the role in July.
Sharma told staff in an internal memo that more details on COO leadership would come later, while no reason was given for Chiang’s departure.
The job had carried end-to-end profit-and-loss oversight across content, hardware, platform and services, created to unify a growing and increasingly fragmented Xbox organization.
Chiang had spent 21 years at Xbox and previously led Minecraft, making her abrupt exit a notable turn in a broader restructuring expected to eliminate 3,200 jobs this year.
That overhaul has already pushed studio divestitures and left some assets in flux, including Arkane Lyon, which could face closure by mid-November if no buyer emerges.