The chief of Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn is taking charge of the teams that build email and productivity apps, in a reorganization that consolidates more of the company’s workplace software as it seeks to speed up deployment of artificial intelligence tools.

Microsoft has assigned the CEO of LinkedIn, Ryan Roslansky, to additional responsibility. Roslansky’s new role is to oversee Microsoft’s Office productivity software unit. He will report to Rajesh Jha, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices Group.

The CEO of LinkedIn will take additional responsibility for Microsoft's Office products, while an executive responsible for one of the company's leading business-to-business artificial intelligence products will start reporting to head of the company's Windows unit,