Seattle-based writing tech company Textio has laid off 16% of its workforce.
The company on Friday confirmed the layoffs, which affected 14 people and now leave the company with a little more than 70 employees.
A Textio spokesperson noted the company has two products, its recruiting tool Textio Loop and its feedback tool Textio Lift, which has been experiencing growth.
"We’ve restructured Textio to shift our skills and resources around where we’re seeing the most product growth," the Textio spokesperson said in a statement. "We're positioning our team to increase our focus on helping managers everywhere write better feedback and develop their people."
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Textio launched in 2014. The company uses artificial intelligence to remove bias from performance reviews and improve feedback. Textio also helps clients choose better language in job postings so they can limit bias and hire more diverse teams.
According to Textio, more than 50,000 managers use its technology. The company's clients include T-Mobile, Uber and Strava.
The layoffs come just months after Textio announced a CEO change, as co-founder and former CEO Kieran Snyder moved into an emeritus role as chief scientist. Jensen Harris, Textio's other co-founder and Snyder's husband, left the chief experience officer role and took over as CEO.
Snyder had led the company as CEO since its founding. She had been at Microsoft for more than nine years in program manager roles before launching Textio. Harris, meanwhile, spent over 16 years at Microsoft before co-founding Textio. He also spent time as Textio's chief technology officer before taking the CXO role.
“As I look ahead to leading Textio, I’m energized to accelerate the company beyond this current inflection point," Harris said in a news release when the change was announced.
