Expedia just fired 8 senior executives to reorganize around AI. Your leadership team is next.

Expedia Group just wiped out eight vice presidents and senior vice presidents in a single memo.

Not because of performance. Not because of revenue.

Because "AI has radically changed what's possible" and they need to move faster.

The most senior exit: Sachin Singh, SVP of book-to-trip technology. Former Amazon exec. CTO leadership team. His entire portfolio—checkout, payments, fraud prevention, AI—is being torn apart and redistributed.

Seven other VPs across pricing, lodging, data platform, and fraud are also gone.

Here's what's actually happening:

Expedia is consolidating all data, AI, and "agentic platforms" under Xavier Amatriain—a former Google AI executive they hired as their first Chief AI and Data Officer in December.

This isn't a restructure. It's a replacement.

The old guard built travel platforms. The new guard builds AI-native systems. Expedia just made clear which one gets to stay.

8,000 technology employees at Expedia just learned their jobs depend on whether they can work inside AI-native squads with "clear ownership" and zero coordination overhead.

Audit your leadership structure now.

If your executives aren't building AI into their core function, they're structurally redundant. The next round of cuts won't target VPs—it'll target entire departments that can't prove AI fluency.