Tiburon Operating Principles

Invest in ourselves

  • Recruit, develop and retain smart, passionate people that want to achieve great things.
  • Provide opportunities to learn, improve and develop.
  • Grow leaders who understand how we build games, represent the culture and teach it to others.
  • Provide challenges and balance them with realistic expectations.
  • Create a work environment that you enjoy coming to.
  • Continually improve best practices, teamwork and technology.

Empower each other

  • Presume good will and assume good intentions.
  • Understand the context of the work and set clear expectations.
  • Scale the decision making process to the impact of the decision.
  • Cultivate a community of openness, honesty and transparency.
  • Demonstrate ownership by taking initiative to do great things.
  • Seek and provide constructive and timely feedback.

Create great games

  • Recognize your customers (internal and external) and respond to their needs.
  • Maximize customer and shareholder value with each decision.
  • Surprise customers and lead the industry with creativity and innovation.
  • Strive for simplicity in design and solutions, and balance against over analysis.
  • Always seek to increase the quality of the work you produce.
  • Be bold and try new things, while balancing goals with constraints.

Recognize, reward and reflect

  • Have high expectations for everyone here, including yourself.
  • Reward those teams and individuals who demonstrate and live the principles.
  • Take pride in, share and recognize our successes.
  • Be a learning organization through relentless reflection, root cause analysis, long-term outlook and continuous improvement.
  • Be proactive in preventing and solving problems.
  • Build upon these principles and improve them.

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