About three months after former Google executive Shashi Seth was recruited to AOL to help build the company’s digital advertising systems, he is leaving the company for a position at Yahoo, citing personal reasons.

“It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that I am resigning from my role at AOL,” Mr. Seth wrote in an email to staff. “Very recent developments in my personal life have made it impossible for me to maintain an executive role that requires extensive travel.”

Mr. Seth was based at AOL’s offices in Silicon Valley. The job required frequent travel to the company’s headquarters in New York.

Mr. Seth said in the email that he was approached last week by a “Bay Area company” and accepted their offer to join. “This new role will enable me to remain local, and gives me lots of flexibility in where I work from (we might move to India for some time) and be available for my family, yet gives me something interesting and challenging to work on.”

Mr. Seth couldn’t be reached for comment on Wednesday.

Mr. Seth was hired in September as AOL’s senior vice president of global advertising products. He worked at Google from 2005 to 2008, where he most recently was head of monetization at video site YouTube.

“While Shashi was only with us for 90 days, we appreciate the early steps he took to help us redefine AOL’s advertising roadmap,” Jeff Levick, president of AOL advertising said in an email to staff.

Jamie Fellows will lead AOL’s global ad products group in the interim. Yahoo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The news came the same day that AOL announced the majority of its domestic job cuts to staff after failing to reach its goal of cutting about a third of its staff through a voluntary buyout program.

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