Jobs digest: moves and promotions at Microsoft, Skydance, Apple, Google, Scopely, Supercell, and more

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Microsoft: Maria Angelidou-Smith will join as CEO of Mojang and Minecraft, moving over from Reddit, where she was chief product officer.

Skydance: Former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has been named to the board of Skydance Corp, which now controls Paramount and Warner Bros, according to Kotaku. Kotick left Activision Blizzard at the end of 2023 following its sale to Microsoft.

Skydance has also confirmed that Paramount Games Studio will merge with Warner Bros. Games, with the combined division reporting to Tony Driscoll, a former Disney Imagineer who previously helped lead strategy at AT&T.

Apple: Carson Oliver is reportedly being promoted to vice president of the App Store, according to Bloomberg. He has been leading the App Store since Phil Schiller stepped back from his day-to-day role, and will continue to report to Eddy Cue.

Google: Chase Chen has joined as business development lead, working to bring games to players across Google Play on mobile and PC. Chen is an indie game maker with almost a decade of experience in game publishing.

Tripledot Studios: Daniel Armstrong has joined as technical director, working with the Ludios team. He was previously technical director at Playside.

Scopely: Bharani Sasank Achyutuni has been promoted to senior engineering manager, Gene Park has started a new position as manager II for performance marketing and Joe Rosenthal is now a lead game designer.

Supercell: Sirach Mendes has joined as influencer and creator manager and Diogo da Rocha Pereira as creator and influencer manager. Adriana Acevedo has also started as partnerships platform consultant, working alongside Alia Lassal and Rosalind Schaub, after six years working with Apple, where Supercell was one of the partners she supported.

Trailmix: Joe Cullen has joined as principal data engineer, to help the studio strengthen how it uses data across its teams. Cullen previously worked as lead software engineer at Square Enix.

Miniclip: Ozan Demirel has joined as senior game designer, having previously worked as a game designer at TapNation.

Mainstay Games: Petr Frolov has joined as senior game designer, having previously worked at Metacore.

Loom Games: Yiğit Cem Sarıoğlu has departed MildMania after three years as a senior level designer. He has joined as product manager.

Dream Games: Mehmet Yağız Çebişli has joined as software engineer after working at Kobil for three years, also as software engineer.

Smadex: Luis de la Camara has joined as chief marketing officer, after five years at Rovio where he was a member of the leadership team & VP of global marketing.

Rollic: Eren Trabzon has joined as product specialist after serving 18 months in a similar role at Surpass.

Cypher Games: Erkan Kasil has joined as junior software engineer after an internship at Ask Vela.