# CEO Rowan Trollope’s organizational announcement to Redis employees

**Tagline:** An organizational change at Redis, why we are making it, and the path ahead. | **Authors:** Rowan Trollope | **Categories:** Company, Announcements | **Published:** 2026-07-15 | **Updated:** 2026-07-15

Today, we are announcing an organizational change at Redis, including a reduction of approximately 200 roles globally and a realignment of roles, teams, and priorities across the company.

This is a difficult decision because it affects people who have contributed meaningfully to Redis; helped build this company, serve our customers, support developers, and strengthen our culture. Their impact is real and lasting, and I am deeply grateful for what they have given to Redis.

I want to explain why we are making these changes, and what comes next.

Over the past twelve years, Redis has become one of the most loved, trusted, and widely used technologies in the world. Developers have chosen Redis because it helps them build faster, scale more easily, and deliver better experiences for their users. Customers have chosen Redis because it has become a critical part of how they run modern applications with speed, simplicity, and reliability.

That foundation is strong. But the needs of our customers and developers are changing quickly.

We are now operating in a new reality shaped by GenAI and agents. Our customers are moving fast to understand how to adopt these technologies to improve their businesses. Developers are being asked to build a new class of applications — applications that rely on agents, memory, context, real-time data, and intelligent action. They need infrastructure that helps them move quickly, build confidently, and scale what works.

This is exactly the kind of problem Redis was built to solve.

AI not only changes what our customers need. It changes how we work. We are becoming a company that uses AI deeply in how we operate, make decisions, serve customers, support developers, and build software. In R&D in particular, we have made significant progress re-engineering how we work for this new reality. The way software is designed, written, tested, shipped, supported, and improved is changing in real time, and we are changing with it — rethinking workflows, increasing our speed, raising our quality bar, and using AI to help every team focus more of its energy on the highest-value work.

This requires sharper choices about how we work and where we invest. In Product and Engineering, for example, we are moving to smaller teams and significantly streamlined processes. We are focusing on three critical roles: individual contributors/builders, player-coaches, and directly responsible individuals who are accountable for delivery and key decisions. Elsewhere in the company, we are winding down workstreams that are not delivering the results our customers require, simplifying parts of the organization, reducing complexity, and shifting teams toward our highest-leverage opportunities. None of this impacts how we think about our global strategy and where we operate. With R&D having the most significant impacts and Israel housing much of this team, the changes may feel heavy in this region. Importantly, Israel is and remains our largest site, home to critical talent and technology, and we will continue to invest and hire here.

These are difficult calls, but they are made in service of our customers, our developer community, and the future they are asking us to help them build. This is not a retreat from our ambition. It is a decision to pursue that ambition with more focus, more urgency, and more discipline.

We are entering a new chapter for Redis. We have world-class engineering talent, a respected global brand, deep customer trust, a passionate developer community, powerful partnerships, and a problem in front of us that we are uniquely equipped to solve. The market, our customers, and developers are all moving quickly, and we need to move with them - both in how we use AI internally and through the products we build.

I know today is a hard day. I am entering it with deep gratitude for the colleagues who are leaving us, and with strong conviction about the path ahead.

Most importantly, I want to thank every Redis employee. Thank you for what you do for our customers, our developers, our partners, our teammates, and the future of this company.

Rowan