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Tokyo:

As an Associate Producer on Stadia, you will support the development and launch of video games on Stadia. You will work on complex, multi-disciplinary game projects and collaborate with external development partners and internal production teams to deliver excellent interactive entertainment on Stadia. This includes tracking schedules, reviewing milestones, and identifying risks and clearly communicating goals to project stakeholders. Your projects often span multiple offices, time zones and hemispheres, and it's your job to keep all the players coordinated on the project's progress and deadlines.

London:

As an Executive Producer at Stadia Games and Entertainment, you will drive a large scale game studio in the development and launch of video games on Stadia. You will work with multi-disciplinary game teams and collaborate with external outsourcing partners and internal stakeholders to deliver excellent interactive entertainment on Stadia. This includes managing the game P&L, maintaining the game vision with the team, managing the publishing production team, coordinating with Stadia service groups, and presenting the game to executives. Your projects will often span multiple offices, time zones, and hemispheres, and it will be your job to keep all the players coordinated on the project's progress and deadlines.

Need to speak and write Japanese fluently for the Tokyo job. 10 years of experience needed for London, so they aren't joking around here.

Via 9to5google.com, who imply that this means they're opening up entirely new studios at both locations. I'm not so sure about that though.

 

[Voost Kain]

This is very important news. Google has been converting many of it's smaller international branches into development studios for Stadia. It is likely that Stadia by the end of next year will have more FP studios than Microsoft and Sony combined.

Stadia is planning to have several games at release to shift the market to digital. Famous Youtube celebrities like PewDiePie will be incentivized to play these games, and those who watch YouTube celebrities can jump into, or buy the game being played, instantly from YouTube itself.

People give Stadia flak, but it's the community aspect that's going to make it the number 1 platform in the industry. They have the money to create a worldwide army of software developers that all exchange information with each other. The Billions that use google products from Youtube to Android phones will have access to first-class games, even in third world countries that have weak devices.

The fact you can share games and Youtube creators can post links that allow players to join or purchase games in an instant provides something that Sony nor Microsoft can achieve; reaching over 3 billion potential gamers, everyday, 24/7. Sony's biggest reach is PlayStation, Microsofts biggest reach is Xbox combined with Office, Google has Android, Gmail, Youtube, Home, and Chromebooks.

Is there a chance this project can fail? Yes, but when you have enough presence to reach over 3 billion people everyday from kids to adults, on over 4 major world-reaching platforms, that increases your chances of success significantly.