Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton Takes A Bow Amid Employee Tensions

Google's head of human resources, Eileen Naughton, said she is quitting her role as tensions continue to rise between company management and workers who have protested the search giant's workplace culture.

Naughton, who has held various roles at the company since 2006, has led the company's human resources department as the vice president of people operations since 2016.

A Google spokesperson confirmed Naughton will be taking another role within the company, but declined to provide any details on what that would be. She'll work with Pichai and Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat to find another leader to fill her role.

"Over the past 13 years, Eileen has made major contributions to the company in numerous areas, from media partnerships, to leading our sales and operations in the UK and Ireland, to leading our People Operations team through a period of significant growth -- during which over 70,000 people started their careers at Google," Pichai said in a statement the company sent to CNBC. "We're grateful to Eileen for all she's done and look forward to her next chapter at Google."