Who’s Amber?
Amber is a global game development agency built by a collective of artisans residing in Bucharest, Botosani, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Guadalajara, and Montreal. We believe that happy people create the best work, and thus we aim to create a nurturing working environment that fulfils the human potential of our staff members. Our tools for achieving our ideal community, which we symbolically named the City of Amber, are detailed on this page, and they’re rooted in our core values of teamwork, kaizen, play, learning, trust, mastery, and community.
Our company culture is akin to an operating system, driving all our actions. It’s dynamic, flexible, in continuous change, growing and adapting to our people’s needs.
Understanding our culture will allow us to evolve in today’s fast-changing business environment, and together we will manage this change process, the journey to the ideal culture.
The Values
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Teamwork
Succeed Together
We see our staff as partners, not employees, and our managers as enablers, facilitators, coaches and mentors. We believe individuals thrive in teams. Through honesty, integrity and transparency in our communication, we empower our teams to make their own decisions, ensuring all the voices are heard. We act in the service of our teams and manage by values and goals. We focus on performance feedback and strive to create the perfect environment for learning and developing.
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Play
Freedom to Innovate
Innovation springs from our natural curiosity, and we foster an experimental mindset in our approach to every business and creative challenge. Play is an expression of freedom and we are free to be bold in our experimental mindset, free to experiment and play with novel approaches to our work and free to make mistakes of action because we dislike inaction. We are curious, inquisitive, taking time to probe deeper on questions of relevance to our work. We find joy in our work and create a fun work environment for ourselves and our teammates.
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Learning
Knowledge for All
The growth mindset is a key differentiator for Amber. We are committed to lifelong learning and use every resource available to further our knowledge. We ensure our teams have the learning tools required for artisan mastery by providing a comprehensive educational program for every discipline and access to our educational resources to the community at large.
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Kaizen
Always Improving
Kaizen is our daily resolution to do things better, by empowering our teams to move fast, sharing best practices among teams, opting for simplicity versus complexity, removing bureaucracy and unnecessary process layers, keeping teams small and agile. In our continuous pursuit to improve our daily work, we set up standards and metrics rooted in operational reality while sharing best practices among all teams.
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Mastery
Quest for Excellence
We believe excellence is a habit, not only an outcome. Because of this, we take pride in our work and celebrate every milestone of a project, both achievements and failures. We iterate until we’re happy with the results and we audit our own work, aiming for high partner and customer satisfaction. We do not shy away from challenging work instead, we are inspired by it, always striving to surprise and delight.
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Humanism
People First
Amber is a people centric organization: finding talent, keeping, growing, and enabling them throughout their careers. We seek to inspire, support, nurture and grow our teams, always assuming good intentions and investing trust in our peers. We value authenticity, work for inclusion and embrace diversity in all its forms.
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Community
Build the Future
We feel a deep sense of responsibility and empathy towards the community within our company, industry and society. Giving back is part of our ethos and we’ll invest part of our profit every year to make a difference. Our staff invest time in community efforts by volunteering their time to charitable causes, educating the youth on industry opportunities and investing in our shared future.