Google’s president of cloud applications and leader of Google Workspace is heading for the door.
Jerry Dischler, Google’s president of cloud applications and leader of Google Workspace, is exiting the company after nearly two decades of working at the tech giant.
Dischler is president of Google’s cloud applications and oversees the company’s popular Workspace collaboration software suite as well as integrating AI tools into customers’ environments.
Workspace made several significant AI moves under Dischler’s leadership, including countless new features and making Gemini free inside Workspace for most subscribers.
“AI is more accessible than ever! Starting today, we’re integrating the best of Google AI directly into Google Workspace for paying business users—no add-ons, no monthly credit limits,” said Dischler in a LinkedIn post earlier this year.
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Google confirmed that Dischler is leaving the company next month.
Dischler Was Critical To Google Ads For Years
He first joined Google in 2005 as vice president of ads platforms and Google properties. Dischler led Google’s commerce products, including Google Checkout—now Google Pay—and Google Product Search, which is now Google Shopping.
In 2020, he was promoted to the top role of general manager and vice president of Google ads.
He oversaw product strategy, engineering and user experience for Google’s advertising products like search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, according to his bio.
Dischler Replaced Workspace GM Aparna Pappu
In November 2024, Google Workspace General Manager and Vice President Aparna Pappu left the company. She was replaced by Dischler.
Last year, Dischler wrote on LinkedIn that the latest generation of AI models will fundamentally transform how all companies work.
“My strong belief is that much of the value that consumers and businesses will receive from AI will be defined at the application layer. To get maximum benefit, we’ll need to significantly augment today’s SaaS applications, develop new applications, and re-think others from the ground up to work differently in an AI-first world,” he wrote. “I’m excited for this to be my new mission, working with some of the best folks in the world who are focused on these problems.”
Prior to Google, he served as the director of engineering at Avolent for five years.
Dischler has not unveiled what his next position is or if he would be joining another company.
“The most difficult aspect of my decision was stepping away from the incredible opportunity we have before us,” Dischler wrote in an email to staff this week, according to a report by Business Insider.
