Jade Raymond joins Google as Vice President, reinforcing his reputation as a player

Jade Raymond announced today that she had joined Google as Vice President. This is a big step forward for Raymond, who was formerly an executive at Electronic Arts, director of the Motive studio in Montreal, and who is an acclaimed name in the video game industry.

Raymond is well known in the video game industry as an executive officer responsible for triple-A teams. At EA, she helped run studios like Motive and Visceral that worked on Star Wars video games. These games have had problems, but the reasons are not clear. This led to executive reshuffles and Raymond left EA last October.

Raymond spent a few years at EA after a long stay at Ubisoft, where she helped build the Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell franchises.

After leaving EA, the company gave him the credit of helping to build good teams and initiate major projects in Motive and other studios. At our GamesBeat Summit 2018 event, Raymond explained how triple-A games have changed.

Raymond did not say what she would do at Google, but her title is impressive for the company. Google's Phil Harrison is preparing to announce his mysterious cloud game project next week at the Game Developers Conference.