Uber said Jill Hazelbaker, its president, will leave to become chief corporate affairs officer at OpenAI, where she will oversee global communications and corporate positioning. She joined Uber in 2015 after stints at Snapchat and Google and played a key role under co-founder Travis Kalanick. She was promoted to president and chief corporate affairs officer in May, taking on HR and real estate; a month later she announced cutting 23% of positions in Uber's HR division, and the company later ran layoffs affecting 10% of its workforce. Her exit follows other departures, including Sarfraz Maredia, the global head of autonomous mobility and delivery, who leaves later this month after more than 12 years, and Susan Anderson, who led the delivery business and left in June after nearly a decade.
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