Xbox’s first chief operating officer is out after just a few months
Xbox’s first chief operating officer is out after just a few months
Xbox 的首位首席运营官在任职仅几个月后便离职了。
Xbox’s first chief operating officer (COO) is leaving after the new role was created just a few months ago. Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today, according to an internal Xbox memo seen by The Verge. Chiang has been at Microsoft for 21 years, serving as the head of Minecraft before being promoted to Xbox chief operating officer in July.
Xbox 的首位首席运营官（COO）在这一新职位设立仅几个月后便离职了。据 The Verge 看到的一份 Xbox 内部备忘录显示，海伦·蒋（Helen Chiang）于今日离开微软。蒋在微软工作了 21 年，在 7 月份被提拔为 Xbox 首席运营官之前，她曾担任《我的世界》（Minecraft）的负责人。
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced Chiang’s departure in a surprisingly short memo today. “Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today. I’m grateful for her years of service and wish her well,” said Sharma. As Chiang is departing today, her immediate responsibilities are being split up between other Xbox leaders for now, and Sharma notes that “We’ll share more on COO leadership as plans are finalized.”
Xbox 首席执行官阿莎·夏尔马（Asha Sharma）今天在一份出奇简短的备忘录中宣布了蒋的离职。“海伦·蒋今天离开微软。我很感谢她多年的服务，并祝她一切顺利，”夏尔马说道。由于蒋于今日离职，她目前的工作职责暂时由其他 Xbox 领导层分担，夏尔马指出：“随着计划的最终确定，我们将分享更多关于首席运营官领导层的信息。”
That sounds like the COO position isn’t going away after just a few months, but it’s not clear why Chiang is departing after such a short stint in the role. At the time of Chiang’s promotion, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma described the new chief operating officer role as a first for Xbox, “with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services.” The role was created as part of Xbox’s big “reset.”
这听起来首席运营官的职位并不会在短短几个月后就被撤销，但目前尚不清楚为什么蒋在担任该职位如此短的时间后就离职了。在蒋获得晋升时，Xbox 首席执行官阿莎·夏尔马曾将这一新的首席运营官职位描述为 Xbox 的首创，称其“负责内容、硬件、平台和服务方面的端到端损益”。该职位的设立是 Xbox 大规模“重置”计划的一部分。
Chiang reported directly to Sharma, and was promoted to “bring our businesses together under one operating model, making sure we make clear investment decisions, learn from our successes and failures, and hold ourselves accountable for results.”
蒋直接向夏尔马汇报，她的晋升旨在“将我们的业务整合到一个运营模式下，确保我们做出明确的投资决策，从成功和失败中吸取教训，并对结果负责。”
Chiang departs amid rumors that Xbox is preparing more layoffs this month, in November, and January. The sudden and short memo from Sharma, coupled with Chiang’s responsibilities being assigned to other Xbox leaders, makes it seem like this wasn’t a resignation.
蒋的离职正值有传言称 Xbox 准备在本月、11 月和 1 月进行更多裁员之际。夏尔马那份突然且简短的备忘录，加上蒋的职责被分配给其他 Xbox 领导者，让人觉得这并非是一次主动辞职。
I asked Microsoft to comment on Chiang’s departure, and the company refused to discuss the circumstances of her exit. “We don’t discuss individual personnel matters,” says Kari Perez, Xbox vice president of communications. “We’re grateful for Helen’s years of service and wish her well.”
我曾要求微软就蒋的离职发表评论，但该公司拒绝讨论她离职的具体情况。“我们不讨论个人人事问题，”Xbox 通讯副总裁卡里·佩雷斯（Kari Perez）表示，“我们感谢海伦多年的服务，并祝她一切顺利。”