Reddit’s first-ever chief product officer, Pali Bhat, is leaving the company in “the coming months,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt confirmed to The Verge. “We’re still focused on expanding globally, building a great ad product, improving search, and making the core product better,” Rathschmidt said. Bhat has served as CPO as the company rolled out initiatives like features to make Reddit simpler and an AI search tool. His time also overlapped with the huge protests on the platform over API pricing that forced popular apps like Apollo to shut down – protests that Reddit eventually crushed. Last month, Huffman said in a long post that the company is planning core product improvements, updates to moderation tools, and updates to search – let’s just hope that the next CPO also wants to keep old Reddit around.