Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer will be stepping down from the role and will take up another job at the social media giant.
Schroepfer said in a Facebook post that veteran leader Andrew Bosworth, who heads up the social media company’s augmented reality and virtual reality efforts, including products like its Oculus Quest VR headset, will take over the role in 2022.
Mike Schroepfer, who spent 13 years at Facebook, said he would transition to a part-time role as the company’s first Senior Fellow sometime next year.
“As our next CTO, Andrew Bosworth will continue leading Facebook Reality Labs and overseeing our work in augmented reality, virtual reality and more, and as part of this transition a few other groups will join Boz’s team as well,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a message to employees that was posted on Facebook’s blog.
“This is all foundational to our broader efforts helping to build the metaverse, and I’m excited about the future of this work under Boz’s leadership,” he said, referring to the Silicon Valley idea of shared spaces that merge the digital and physical worlds and can be accessed through different devices.
In July, Facebook said it was creating a new product team to work on these ambitions, as part of Facebook Reality Labs.
Zuckerberg said Schroepfer’s new role would include helping the company recruit and develop technical talent and foster investments in artificial intelligence.
Other leaders who have left the company in recent months include the head of Facebook’s main app, Fidji Simo, who left to become Instacart CEO, and global ads chief Carolyn Everson, who was hired as the start-up’s president.
