page announced a major management restructure in october  so that he would no longer need to be responsible for day-to-day product-related decision making in a memo page said that googles core businesses would be able to progress in a typical manner while he could focus on the next generation of ambitious projects including google x initiatives access and energy including google fiber smart-home automation through nest labs and biotechnology innovations under calico page maintained that he would continue as the unofficial "chief product officer" subsequent to the announcement the executives in charge of googles core products reported to then google senior vice president sundar pichai who reported directly to page