Tesla Loses Two Top Executives as Heads of Customer Experience and Cybercab Project Exit Same Day

On March 31, Tesla faced another wave of executive departures as José del Corral, Head of Customer Experience Products, and Mark Lepak, Head of Cybercab Assembly, both announced their resignations on the same day. Del Corral, who had been with Tesla for nearly eight years and led end-to-end customer experience across the company’s app, website, and retail stores, will join cryptocurrency platform Coinbase. Lepak is the third key executive to leave the Cybercab project in less than two months. Since mid-2024, Tesla has seen a string of high-level exits across core business functions—including finance, engineering, software, manufacturing, and sales—with none of the original Model team leads remaining at the company. Tesla is currently pushing forward with Cybercab mass production, expansion of its autonomous ride-hailing service, and the Optimus robotics project, yet it faces dual pressures from a talent gap and consecutive quarters of declining deliveries. The company is set to release its Q1 delivery figures on April 2, with an expected sequential decline of over 12%.