Gitesh Gohel will join The Atlantic’s leadership team as its chief product officer. This is a homecoming of sorts: Gitesh worked with CEO Nicholas Thompson to create the conversation platform Speakeasy, which was acquired by Project Liberty’s Amplica Labs in 2024. Gitesh has for the past year been head of product and design at The Washington Post.
Below is Nick’s announcement to staff:
Dear all,
It is a great pleasure to announce that Gitesh Gohel will be joining us as our new chief product officer. Gitesh is currently the head of product and design at The Washington Post. Before that, as many of you know, he held that same role at Narwhal––a project, later renamed as Speakeasy, focused on how to improve conversations on social media––where he learned the joys of the 130 Prince roof deck. He and I worked closely together on that until the company was sold to Amplica Labs.
Gitesh is an extraordinarily gifted and creative product leader, with a passion for serious journalism, for community, for AI, and for building ambitious products quickly and effectively. He’s spent his whole career working on projects that get people to use the tools of the internet to understand each other better. In addition to his work at The Post and Speakeasy, Gitesh helped lead the launch of CNN+ as its senior director of product initiative, and built and led product growth for then start-ups GIPHY, Brigade, and Tumblr.
He’s a native New Yorker and will be spending the majority of his time at Prince Street, but he’s also gotten quite familiar with Amtrak in his current role and will be heading to Washington frequently. He’ll be reporting to me, and I think everyone will enjoy working with him. His first day will be in mid June. Please join me in welcoming Gitesh to The Atlantic.
Best * Nick
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