New Relic, Inc. announced that Bill Staples will join the Company as chief product officer on February 14, 2020. Reporting directly to CEO and Founder Lew Cirne, Staples will be responsible for driving the company’s market-leading platform strategy and will lead the Product Management, Engineering and Design functions. Staples has spent his career building and scaling cloud-based businesses. He joins New Relic from Adobe, where he led the 1,500+ employee global engineering team behind Adobe’s market-leading Experience Cloud. Previously, he spent 17 years at Microsoft in a number of product leadership roles. Most recently at Microsoft, he was corporate vice president for the Azure Application Platform, leading design, product management and engineering.