Values & Leadership
How We Operate
Our Values
Five Commitments That Define Us
Think Bigger
Ambition, innovation, excellence. Be ambitious in the goals we take on and the high standards of our work.
Invent Together
Curiosity, collaboration, creative problem solving. Our best inventions emerge when we align and work together.
Inspire Always
Customer focus, stakeholder experience. Our products, brand, and team interactions inspire and further our mission.
Be Resilient
Perseverance, adaptability. Our team is adaptive and resourceful whenever we encounter challenges.
Do the Right Thing
Integrity, safety. Defining, living by, and continuously improving our principles.
Leadership Principles
How Leaders Operate at Boom
These principles apply to everyone who leads—whether you manage people or not. At Boom, leadership is about how you think, decide, and act. They're shaped by lessons from some of the highest-performing teams in the world and refined for the realities of building supersonic aircraft with a small, focused team.
Leadership Principles
How We Work
Key Practices
Bias to Action
Speed matters. Make decisions and adjustments with limited information—reversible decisions don't require deep analysis.
Hands on the Hardware
We're vertically integrated. Designers and engineers stay close to the parts they specify.
Ground Truth
Get to the facts. Walk the floor. Watch the test. Read the source. Don't trust dashboards alone.
Frugality
Constraints breed resourcefulness. We accomplish more with less.
Long-term Orientation
We optimize for the long-term success of the company and the people in it, even when it's harder in the short term.
Not OK Here
Bureaucracy
Process for process's sake. Every step should add value.
Brilliant Jerks
Great work doesn't excuse cruelty. Talent + integrity, both required.
Politics
We don't credit-grab, blame-shift, or build coalitions instead of solutions.
Sloppiness
Errors compound when we're imprecise. Care about your craft.
Excuses
If we missed it, we own it. Then we figure out how to do better next time.
Coasting
Working at Boom is hard work. If you want to coast, this isn't the place.
