Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne is leaving the company after roughly two years of employment to head back to a new job at his previous employer HarperCollins.

HarperCollins UK CEO and publisher Victoria Barnsley is departing the company after 13 years as they enter a restructuring period, thus leaving a new job open for Redmayne.

Said Barnsley about exiting the book publisher, “I’ve always wanted to time my departure so that I could leave the company at the right moment and in the best possible shape. Now is that time. HarperCollins is about to embark on a new chapter of its long history as part of the new News Corp, and I’m more than confident that its very talented teams, working with our best-in-class authors, will continue to go from strength to strength.”

Redmayne will begin his role in August. J.K. Rowling’s agent Neil Blair commented on Redmayne’s departure from Pottermore: “We’d like to thank Charlie for his great work on Pottermore. As it enters an exciting new phase of development, with the support of primary partner Sony, and also of Warner Bros, Pottermore is in great shape, with a robust in-house team in place, and CTO Julian Thomas at the helm in the transition process.”

Added Redmayne, “Steering Pottermore through such a ground-breaking time in its development has been a great experience, and I am proud of what we have achieved. We have built up a brilliant in-house team at Pottermore, and I know I am leaving it in the best possible hands. I am excited for its future under new leadership, where it will continue to push the boundaries of digital publishing.”

An interim CEO has been named at Pottermore while they seek out a new person.

Redmayne has been outspoken during his limited time as Pottermore CEO. Over the past two years, he’s conducted several interviews where he would discuss Pottermore’s strengths and weaknesses while teasing what’s to come in the future.

Most recently, Redmayne revealed that big changes are in store for the website (as Blair alluded to in the statement above). “As it stands, if you don’t know the books you won’t get much out of it,” Redmayne said in June. “What we want to do is open it out for those people who haven’t read the books, or who haven’t seen the films, but perhaps come to it via the Lego, or the Harry Potter computer games.”

Some of those changes include basic information pages asking questions like “Who is Harry Potter?” and making it possible for users to experience the Sorting Hat without registering for an account. You’ll also be able to browse through the chapters in any order you want.

Thanks, The Bookseller.