Nadella quietly dismantled Microsoft's leadership structure. The SLT that ran the company for decades is gone.

TL;DRNadella retired Microsoft’s senior leadership team and replaced it with startup-style engineering groups. He reviews AI metrics weekly.

Satya Nadella has dismantled the senior leadership structure that ran Microsoft for decades. The company “quietly retired what’s known as the SLT,” a person close to the CEO told Business Insider. The senior leadership team, the powerful executives who ran sprawling businesses and reported directly to Nadella, no longer exists.

In its place, Nadella has created three new structures. A corporate leadership group of five, Nadella, Brad Smith, Amy Hood, Amy Coleman, and Judson Althoff, meets weekly for governance. An engineering leadership group of roughly 35 product and engineering leaders works in close coordination rather than through large managerial chains. A Copilot leadership team of three, Charles Lamanna, Jacob Andreou, and Ryan Roslansky, meets with Nadella in a separate weekly standup.

Nadella also personally reviews AI metrics every week. He meets with the Azure cloud infrastructure team every two weeks. The structure resembles the startup-style operating model he has publicly praised. Engineers, researchers, and product builders work together directly. The managerial chains that characterised Microsoft’s cloud era have been compressed.