Tesla org chart

Elon Musk, Technoking and CEO, sits at the top of Tesla's org chart with ten leaders reporting to him on this chart. Tesla has no chief operating officer and no division heads: finance, manufacturing, AI, engineering, design, legal, energy, supply chain and sales each report to Musk as functions.

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Tesla org chart at a glance

The chart describes Tesla as of August 2026.

Chief executive: Elon Musk, Technoking of Tesla and CEO.
Headquarters: Austin, Texas.
Employees: about 134,785 (31 December 2025).
Revenue: $94.83 billion (fiscal 2025).
Executive officers: three (Elon Musk, Vaibhav Taneja and Tom Zhu).
On the chart: 16 people in three levels, grouped by function.

Who reports to Elon Musk

Every function on Tesla's chart reports straight to the chief executive. None of these leaders owns a product line's profit and loss.

Vaibhav Taneja: CFO and Principal Accounting Officer. Travis Axelrod, Head of Investor Relations, reports to him.
Tom Zhu: Senior Vice President, APAC and Global Vehicle Manufacturing. Grace Tao (Vice President, China) and André Thierig (Plant Manager, Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg) report to him.
Ashok Elluswamy: Vice President, AI Software (Autopilot, FSD and Optimus).
Lars Moravy: Vice President, Vehicle Engineering. Dan Priestley, Program Director for Tesla Semi, reports to him.
Franz von Holzhausen: Chief Designer.
Brandon Ehrhart: General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
Michael Snyder: Vice President, Energy and Charging. Max de Zegher, Director of Charging for North America, reports to him.
Karn Budhiraj: Vice President, Supply Chain.
Joe Ward: Vice President, EMEA, who also leads global sales, service and delivery.
Konstantinos Laskaris: Director of Engineering, Optimus.

How Tesla is organized

Tesla is a functional company with a very thin top. It reports two financial segments (automotive, and energy generation and storage), but there is no general manager for either; its filings name the CEO himself as the person who allocates resources across them.

Only three people are designated executive officers for a workforce of about 135,000, and there is no chief operating officer, president or chief technology officer. Geography is folded into functional roles: Tom Zhu holds both the Asia-Pacific region and global vehicle manufacturing, and Joe Ward runs EMEA while also leading global sales, service and delivery.

When leaders leave, Tesla tends to fold their teams into an existing branch rather than hire a replacement. The Optimus robot programme moved into Ashok Elluswamy's AI group in 2025, which is why the chart shows AI software and Optimus engineering side by side.

What your own org chart can borrow from Tesla

A functional structure keeps a fast-moving company simple: one leader per discipline, all reporting to the top.
If a leader covers a region and a global function at once, write both in their title so the chart explains the overlap.
Plan for the risk of a thin top: with no COO, the CEO's span of control is the bottleneck, so keep an eye on how many functions report to one person.
Note programme leads (like the Tesla Semi director) under the function that owns them, so cross-cutting projects still have a home on the chart.

Edit the Tesla org chart

The template is a list of people, not a drawing. Each row has a name, a title, a department and the person they report to, and the org chart is laid out from those rows. Change a Reports To cell and that person's whole branch moves with them; add a row marked as an open role to plan a hire; recolour a branch by changing its department.

Many readers open a company chart to borrow its shape rather than its names: keep the Tesla structure, replace the people with your own team, and the layout follows.

Sources and accuracy

Tesla publishes no leadership page. This chart is an independent reconstruction from SEC filings, earnings-call participant lists and press reporting, as of August 2026. Only Elon Musk, Vaibhav Taneja and Tom Zhu are designated executive officers; the lines below them are inferred from each person's role, and functions with no publicly known leader are left out.

OrgTree.app is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Tesla, Inc. All trademarks belong to their owners. For a longer analysis of how Tesla is organized, including the trade-offs of its structure, see the QueryChart page linked below.

Frequently asked questions

Who is the CEO of Tesla?

Elon Musk is Tesla's chief executive. His formal title also includes Technoking of Tesla.

Does Tesla have a COO?

No. Tesla has no chief operating officer, president or chief technology officer. Its three executive officers are Elon Musk, CFO Vaibhav Taneja and Tom Zhu.

Who reports to Elon Musk at Tesla?

On this chart: Vaibhav Taneja, Tom Zhu, Ashok Elluswamy, Lars Moravy, Franz von Holzhausen, Brandon Ehrhart, Michael Snyder, Karn Budhiraj, Joe Ward and Konstantinos Laskaris.

Does Tesla publish an org chart?

No. This chart is reconstructed from Tesla's filings and public reporting, as of August 2026.

Can I edit the Tesla org chart?

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