Europe's leading online multi-brand fashion and lifestyle platform, serving 61+ million active customers across 29 European markets with 7,000+ brands. Generating €15.3 billion in GMV and €10.6 billion in revenue annually (FY 2024), the DAX-listed company operates a consumer marketplace for apparel, footwear, accessories, and beauty, alongside Lounge by Zalando (off-price), and a growing B2B ecosystem comprising ZEOS (logistics-as-a-service), Tradebyte, and SCAYLE. Following its transformative €1.1 billion acquisition of ABOUT YOU in 2025, Zalando employs ~16,100 people from 140+ nationalities.
Reimagine fashion for the good of all.
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About the Company
16,117
Employees
Public (DAX 40, Frankfurt Stock Exchange)
Stage
~$149–191 million (pre-IPO); IPO October 2014 raised ~€605–633 million
Funding
€10.6 billion
Revenue
51,800,000
Customers
342,000
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📍 HQ: Valeska-Gert-Straße 5, 10243 Berlin, Germany
📈 Europe's #1 online multi-brand fashion platform by GMV (11.7% cross-border market share)
Legal: Zalando SE · Valuation: ~€5.18 billion (market cap, March 2026) · Share Capital: €264,122,978.00
Reg: HRB 158855 B (Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, Berlin)
Managing Directors: Robert Gentz (Co-CEO, Co-Founder), David Schröder (Co-CEO), David Schneider (Member of the Management Board, Co-Founder), Dr. Astrid Arndt (CPO), Anna Dimitrova (CFO)
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Tech Stack
🛠️ Engineering & Work Culture
Engineering Culture
Radical Agility model with autonomous, multi-disciplinary squads. ~2,000 engineers using GitHub Enterprise, API-first and Open Source First principles, 200+ public GitHub repositories (Patroni, Nakadi, Postgres Operator, Skipper, Flair NLP, Fashion-MNIST), 100+ self-organized guilds, AWS-native microservices architecture on Kubernetes, Tech Radar for technology adoption, annual internal Software Engineering Community Conference, and a dedicated Tech Academy for onboarding and continuous learning.
Work Environment
Hybrid
Remote Work Policy
Hybrid framework: 40% in-office, 60% remote; up to 30 working days per year from abroad
Methodology
Agile/Scrum with OKRs
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🌈 Diversity & Inclusion
do.BETTER D&I strategy (launched 2021) with vision 'Be the Starting Point for Fashion that is welcoming to everyone' under #InclusiveByDesign. Target: 40–60% women/men across top 5 management levels. Current: 47.4% women in workforce, 1% gender pay gap. 11 Employee Resource Groups. €5M invested in women in tech. Financial Times Leader in Diversity 2025.