OpenAI announced on May 15 that it has reorganized its executive structure to consolidate product lines under president Greg Brockman, who now officially leads all product strategy while continuing to oversee AI infrastructure [1, 2]. The company merged ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a single unified core product team under Brockman's direction [1, 3, 4, 2].
Brockman had been serving as the interim product strategy lead since April during CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo’s medical leave. With the reorganization, his role in product strategy is now formalized [1, 4, 2]. Simo remains on medical leave but collaborated with Brockman on the changes and the strategic direction [1, 4, 2].
The restructuring arranges the product organization into four pillars reporting to Brockman: core product and platform headed by Thibault Sottiaux; critical enterprise industries led by Nick Turley; consumer products under Ashley Alexander; and core infrastructure, ads, data science, and growth led by Vijaye Raji [1, 2]. Nick Turley, who helped grow ChatGPT to over 900 million weekly active users, will lead enterprise products while maintaining involvement with ChatGPT [2].
Brockman stated, "We’re consolidating our product efforts to execute with maximum focus toward the agentic future, to win across both consumer and enterprise" [2]. He added that OpenAI aims to "bring agents to ChatGPT scale, in order to give individuals and organizations significantly more value and utility from our products" [1]. This signals a shift toward AI agents at large scale, focusing investment on core products and moving away from less central projects [1, 4, 2].
The reorganization comes amid investor pressure for improved profitability and a potential initial public offering [1]. The changes are designed to sharpen strategic focus ahead of this milestone [1].
OpenAI’s newly aligned product structure and official leadership designation took effect immediately with the May 15 announcement [1, 2].
