Slack | News, Hiring, Layoffs, Competitors, CEO, Fundraising Insights

Slack is a productivity platform designed to simplify and enhance the working lives of individuals and teams. It integrates communication, project management, and automation tools to improve collaboration and performance across organizations. As part of Salesforce, it offers deep integration with the Salesforce Customer 360, making it a powerful tool for sales, service, and marketing teams. Slack promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace and is committed to empowering users with no-code automation and seamless knowledge sharing.

🛍️ Slack Product and Pricing News

• Ignition announced a new integration with Slack that allows users to receive real-time notifications of proposal acceptances directly in Slack.
• In October 2024, Slack introduced AI-powered features in huddles and threads to streamline check-ins and capture action items, along with new workflow templates and real-time Salesforce data dashboards integration.
• QuestionPro Workforce has upgraded its Slack integration to enhance survey accessibility and engagement for over 600,000 organizations using Slack.
• Slack introduced an AI recap feature that helps users catch up on missed work.
• On October 7, 2024, Slack added a notification feature from the service 'lalatto' to help users avoid missing deadlines.

• Moveworks integrates with Slack to automate HR tasks and streamline Workday workflows, enhancing efficiency and accessibility for employees.
• Slack launched AI personas to enhance user engagement and adoption by understanding emotions towards AI, as shared by Christina Janzer, SVP of Research & Analytics.
• Notion AI now allows users to access messages from selected public channels in Slack and files in Google Drive as of September 25.

👔 Slack CEO, Management and Leadership Team

• Kaylin Voss

  
  Chief Revenue Officer
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• Denise Holland Dresser

  
  Slack CEO
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• Sarah Walker

  
  Chief Operating Officer, Slack
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• Peter Doolan

  
  EVP, Chief Customer Officer
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• Ryan Gavin

  
  Slack Chief Marketing Officer and Board Member. Previously Chief Growth Officer Convoy, General Manager for AWS and Microsoft.
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• eli arka

  
  Program Officer
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• Shweta Verma

  
  Regional Vice President
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• Lauren Beaubien

  
  Area Vice President
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• Rahul Talati

  
  Vice President, Marketing Operations
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• Michael Roe

  
  Regional Vice President, Large Enterprise
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• Hayley Thompson

  
  Regional Vice President
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• William G.

  
  Regional Vice President, Large Enterprise Sales
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• Mark Whittington

  
  Vice President, Public Sector
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• Greg Ratner

  
  Sr. Director of Engineering
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⚔️ Slack Alternatives and Competitors

• Microsoft Teams
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• Google Chat
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• Workplace
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• Webex Suite
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• RingEX
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• Mattermost
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• Symphony
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• Noysi
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• monday.com
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• Bitrix24
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• Swit
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• Rocket.Chat
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• Chanty
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• Yammer
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• ClickUp
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• Pumble
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• Brosix
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• Flock
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• Ryver
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• Discord for Business
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• Trello Communicate
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• Zoho Cliq

💼 Slack Hiring and Layoffs

• Chris Jordan has joined Slack as Regional Vice President, Head of Sales for Slack, ASEAN in Singapore, previously holding a position at another company.
• Slack is hiring for a research operations role based in Chicago or Atlanta, as announced by Lucas Puente, VP of Research at Slack, on October 7, 2024.
• Cisco Vila, VP of Software Engineering at Slack, expressed pride in supporting Slack Fuego as an executive sponsor.
• Slack is hiring a Vice President of Data Science & Analytics to lead its data strategy and teams, reporting to the COO.
• Anna Louise Bauer has left Slack as an Engagement Delivery Manager in Germany to join EPAM Systems as a Senior Account Manager.

• Tracy Stampfli, Principal Engineer at Slack, and Izzy Clemenson, Slack Senior Staff Engineer, discuss product leadership and stakeholder engagement as individual contributors.
• Francisco Sousa Machado has left Slack as a Cloud Account Executive - Salesforce - MMEA in Spain to join ElevenLabs as an Enterprise GTM Director.

🤖 Slack Developer, Integration and Automation News

• Creaitz Community announced their official migration to Slack in November.
• AnyMind Group replaced 10 different apps with Slack for centralized collaboration.

📈 Slack Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News

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