Hugo Barra, Google's vice president of product management for Android, is leaving the company for a job at Xiaomi, the Chinese phone maker, AllThingsD reported. Google confirmed Barra’s departure, but offered no further details on who will be taking over his duties. In a post to Google+, Barra said he’s joining Xiaomi as Vice President of Xiaomi Global. Barra joined Google in March 2008, coming from speech technology firm Nuance.
Sources close to the situation told AllThingsD that Barra recently tendered his resignation, but that it came before a recent thorny personal situation related to the end of a romantic relationship he had with another Google employee. That Google employee is now seeing the company's co-founder Sergey Brin, but sources said his decision to leave the company is unrelated and was made before he was aware of the new relationship. AllThingsD reported earlier that Brin had split with his wife and is in involved with another Google employee.
