Jay Carney, the top coverage and communications executive at Amazon and one particular-time White Property spokesman, has been named the head of coverage at Airbnb, marking an additional high-profile departure for Amazon as it faces a shifting buyer landscape and heightened regulatory scrutiny.
Carney, who served as the press secretary for President Barack Obama, will be part of Airbnb‘s government group and get the job done with co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, the enterprise claimed in a Friday blog publish.
“Jay has worked at the greatest degrees of equally authorities and technological know-how, serving as a strategic counselor to the President, and at one of the premier tech businesses in the world,” Chesky explained in the publish.
Carney will sign up for Airbnb in September in Washington, DC.
Amazon has noticed string of departures considering that Andy Jassy succeeded founder Jeff Bezos as CEO last summer. This thirty day period, Dave Clark, the main govt of Amazon’s consumer enterprise who oversaw a mass growth of Amazon’s logistics footprint, still left the organization immediately after 23 many years. Clark, who will be a part of the logistics startup Flexport in September, was replaced by Doug Herrington, a different executive who aided start Amazon Fresh new in 2017.
Carney started with Amazon 7 years ago and ran the firm’s world-wide corporate affairs organisation, reporting instantly to the CEO. He oversaw Amazon’s coverage and general public relations, concentrating on the firm’s romance with lawmakers and the White Property.
Carney was White Household press secretary from 2011 to 2014 right after serving as director of communications for then Vice President Joe Biden.
Amazon did not promptly answer to a ask for for comment.
