About Zalando
What is Zalando?
Zalando SE is Europe's leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. Founded in 2008 in Berlin and now publicly traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FRA: ZAL), Zalando connects ~50 million active customers with 4,500+ brands across 25 European countries. Originally a shoe retailer, the company has evolved into a tech-enabled fashion ecosystem covering apparel, footwear, beauty, sportswear, accessories, and a private-label portfolio.
Zalando employs roughly 14,000–16,000 people in technology, design, fashion, marketing, supply-chain, and corporate roles. Its B2B Connected Retail platform also enables partner brick-and-mortar retailers to sell on Zalando. Sustainability is central to the strategy — the company has set goals for net-positive social and environmental impact through its "do.MORE" initiative.
Where will I work?
This profile covers Zalando's corporate, engineering, design, marketing, and head-office roles — primarily based at the Berlin HQ at Valeska-Gert-Strasse, with technology hubs in Helsinki, Dublin, Lisbon, and Bucharest. Zalando also operates major fulfilment centres and customer service hubs across Europe. Warehouse, fulfilment, picker, packer, and logistics-operative roles are filtered out of this listing because they follow different working-time / collective-bargaining schedules and aren't covered by the corporate vacation policy described here.
What is the Zalando team like?
~14,000–16,000 employees globally with the largest concentration in Berlin. Berlin HQ is a major tech employer in Europe with engineering teams working in autonomous "purpose teams". The culture is described as international, design-driven, and data-curious. Glassdoor reviews highlight strong engineering practices and progressive HR policies.
Work-Life Balance
German-based corporate Zalando staff receive generous PTO in line with German labour-law standards: typically ~28–30 days paid vacation per year for full-time office-based staff, plus public holidays. Combined with parental-leave provisions (German Elternzeit), part-time / shared-leadership options for parents, and flexible / hybrid working for office roles, Zalando is meaningfully reduced-hours by global standards for office-based knowledge workers. Note: this only applies to office-based corporate roles; warehouse and logistics employees follow separate working-time agreements and are filtered out of this listing.
Perks and Benefits
- Generous PTO (~30 days vacation for corporate roles)
- German Elternzeit-aligned parental leave + return-to-work support
- Hybrid / flexible working for office-based roles
- Wellbeing benefits including mental-health platform access
- Meal & food benefits at HQ campuses
- Fitness benefits including discounted gym access
- Public-transit pass + jobticket (Berlin)
- Employee discount on Zalando platform
- Equity / share-purchase plan
- Learning & development budget