By Anna Tong
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -OpenAI’s chief people officer, Julia Villagra, is leaving the company on Friday, the company confirmed to Reuters.
Villagra joined the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence maker in February 2024 as the head of human resources, according to her LinkedIn profile.
In March, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that she had been promoted to the chief people officer role.
OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, who recently started, will be hiring a new chief people officer, and in the interim, its chief strategy officer Jason Kwon will be running Villagra’s function, the company said.
Villagra is leaving to pursue her personal passion of using art, music and storytelling to help people understand the transition to artificial general intelligence,