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Horowitz, vice president of product management
since 2008, announced the move in a Google+ post late on Sunday.
"It's important to me that these changes are properly understood
to be positive improvements to both our products and how they
reach users," Horowitz wrote.
It was not immediately known what the company called "streams"
product.
Sundar Pichai, Google's senior vice president of products, told
Forbes last week that the two important parts of Google+, Photos
and Hangouts, may soon be separated from the main product.
"I think increasingly you'll see us focus on communications,
photos and the Google+ Stream as three important areas, rather
than being thought of as one area," Forbes quoted Pichai as
saying.
Google+ marked the company's most concerted effort to catch up
with Facebook Inc in the fast-growing social networking market,
but the service has struggled to match the rival's popularity.
It was not immediately clear what role David Besbris, who last
April replaced Google's head of social networking, Vic Gundotra,
will be taking on.
Google representatives did not immediately respond to a request
for comment.
The changes were first reported by technology blog Techcrunch,
which also said that the Google+ team has halved in size since
Gundotra's departure.
(Reporting by Supriya Kurane in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj
Kalluvila)
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