Curated Fashion Experience

„The secret of getting

ahead is getting
started“
(Mark Twain)
 AGENDA

ZALANDO ZALON TECH & DATA CAREER

Facts & resources Who we are Organization Team
About Berlin Facts Tech stack What we are looking for
Products How we work Perks & compensation
Vision & purpose
Culture
ZALANDO ZALON TECH & DATA CAREER
Facts & resources Who we are Organization Team
About Berlin Facts Tech stack What we are looking for
Products How we work Perks & compensation
Vision & purpose
Culture
 NO. 1 COMPANY TO WORK FOR IN GERMANY*

fruit baskets Zalandos volunteered

orders in m per year 4,180 hours
adjusted EBIT in EUR m

employees from more revenue in

than 100 nations EUR m

female and male

share price as of employees in the tech locations
Dec 30, 2016 company in Europe

*according to LinkedIn in 2017

 BERLIN

Living in Berlin can be quite exciting. Berlin is WATCH THE VIDEO:

the melting pot for people from 180 countries - a
cosmopolitan city at incredibly cheap cost of Play
living for a European capital and with a good
quality of life and urban environment. Whether
nature and outdoor fans, history explorers or
party goers, everyone finds in Berlin what they
enjoy. Berlin has plenty to offer for both singles,
e.g. incredible music scene and nightlife and
families, an amazing family and kids
infrastructure. and on top of that, Berlin’s central
location makes it easy to travel around Europe.
ONLINE RESOURCES:
SOCIAL MEDIA: https://www.visitberlin.de/en; https://www.berlin.de/en/;
https://www.toytowngermany.com/berlin/; https://berlincheap.com/;
http://www.iheartberlin.de/; https://www.movingto-berlin.com/
 WHERE WILL WE WORK?

In 2018, when Zalando will celebrate its 10th birthday, the Zalando Campus will be ready to offer up to 5,000 employees a flexible and open working space.

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Zalando SE Campus Berlin

in use under construction planing

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ZALANDO ZALON TECH & DATA CAREER
Facts & resources Who we are Organization Team
About Berlin Facts Tech stack What we are looking for
Products How we work Perks & compensation
Vision & purpose
Culture
 Our Purpose:
„Connect people to dress
better“
 WHAT IS IT?
ZALON CREATES A WIN-WIN SITUATION FOR ALL PARTIES INVOLVED
CONSUMERS F R E E L A N C E STYLISTS

W IN W IN WIN

• Advised by real experts • New customer acquisition • Monetize fashion expertise

• Individually curated • Upsell existing customers • Attractive variable salary
• Inspiration / convenience • Collect ~200 data points per user • Flexible working conditions
• Free of charges • Further curation products? • Interact with consumers
 FACTS: ZALON TEAM OPERATES AS INDEPENDENT ENTITY

100+ 500
1m
external stylists
employees

>100% 60%
growth Y to Y
30% female share
users acquired
24
nationalities
worked at
Zalando before 1/3
employees in Tech
 PRODUCT VISION

Zalon is like shopping with your best friend – we inspire you to try out new
styles carefully selected by your stylist to underline your personality.

A hand-picked curation of clothes just for you- matching your needs &
tastes. We take care of it and provide you with a truly personal, inspiring
and effortless service

At Zalon we want to offer a service that fulfills our customers’ needs to:
· Get tailored recommendation matching my taste & needs
· Delegate the task of shopping to save time
· Reduce complexity of choice pre-selecting the right products
· Get advice to be dressed well and feel confident
· Get inspired and try out new styles
· Treat yourself with a surprise

We provide the best curated experience for our target customers – the
busy professional, the convenience seeker, the frequent shopper as well
as the trend watcher
 WE FACILITATE CONSUMERS* JOURNEY ACROSS MULTIPLE TOUCHPOINTS

OUTFIT FEEDBACK/
QUESTIONNAIRE MESSENGER
PREVIEW REORDER

Matchmaking Data support for

customer to item to customer
stylist selection

STYLIST OUTFIT STYLIST

ORDER
TOOL CREATOR MESSENGER

*Consumer 1 = customer, consumer 2 = stylist

 ZALON – PRODUCT SCENE

Have your own voice and feeling Select your style and the Chat with your stylist whenever
in there…if you want. occasion& let your stylist pick & wherever you want.
the perfect outfit for you.
 PRODUCT LANDSCAPE

RESPONSIVE
ANDROID APP IOS APP
CUSTOMER WEBSITE

IOS
STYLIST ZALON SHOPPER
S T Y L I S T C H AT
TOOL EXTENSION
APP

ZALON
M AT C H M A K I N G D ATA
ADMIN TOOL
 CULTURE

OUR WORK „RULES“ TEAM WALL

TEAM EVENTS ALL HANDS

 THE TEAM DECIDED THE „WORK RULES“ ON THEIR OWN
1. TRUST IN PEOPLE’S GOOD INTENTIONS
2. PUT TEAM FIRST, PERSONAL PREFERENCES SECOND
3. COMMUNICATION ALWAYS HELPS
RULE
 max 4 days per month
 no explanation needed
MOBILE
 schedule min 2 days in advance (EOB)
OFFICE use the „holiday calendar“
 Be reachable via hangouts, Slack & email
WORKING  Be present in the office between
HOURS 10:00 – 16:00
 Never miss a meeting without prior notice
 Be there on time for the Zalando all hands
MEETINGS
4. ALIGN ON YOUR OWN TEAM RULES
5. GOOD COLLABORATION IS THE KEY TO OUR SUCCESS
RECOMMENDATION OPTION
 Schedule home office as early as possible  Align on specific “mobile office days” or “no
 Not more than 2 days in a row mobile office days” with your (extended) team
 Align with you (extended) team in advance
 Not judging anyone based on working hours but  compensate short working days with long
on what is delivered. We don’t value face-time! working days over the course of the week
 Reduce meetings overall  align on specific “meeting days” or “no meeting
 Always prefer 1-1 direct communication days” with your (extended) team
 Align with participants before scheduling a meeting
outside 10-16h or between 12-14h
 If you miss a meeting get an update of the content
proactively afterwards
 Make meeting participation via digital channels possible
(Hangouts, Slack)
 ZALON RELATED ONLINE RESOURCES

1. Zalon main website

2. Zalando main website
3. Corporate website
4. Facts and figures
5. Zalando SE annual report - full 2016
6. Technology Blog (blog / career page / locations)
7. Technology Culture
8. Open Source
9. Technology Radar
10. STUPS Platform
11. Hack Week
12. Berlin Campus
ZALANDO ZALON TECH & DATA CAREER
Facts & resources Who we are Organization Team
About Berlin Facts Tech stack What we are looking for
Products How we work Perks & compensation
Vision & purpose
Culture
 E N G I N E E R IN G

HOW WE WORK
For us our cross-functional teams are our most important units. We are
influenced by Agile ideas, Zalando’s Radical Agile and Spotify’s approach when it
comes to our team structures and ways of working. Our teams work fully
autonomous and with full end-to-end responsibility in cross functional teams on
solving the challenges at hand - starting with ideating over prototyping and user
testing to bringing features live and checking their performance. Having full
autonomy the teams are constantly iterating on getting better - and they do that
with big success.
BACKEND
To prepare an eventual introduction of micro services we are currently
modularising our backend. Main focus is on refactoring towards and
implementing DDD concepts and reactive design patterns and more functional
programming style.
FRONTEND
Our stylist tooling is already on React/Redux and we are currently incrementally
switching the consumer frontend to the same stack. For this our internal REST
APIs become more and more important and we are constantly improving their
quality.
MOBILE
The mobile teams (iOS and Android) also are in the process of applying latest
technology trends (e.g. functional programming, reactive design patterns and the
like) to further enhance their clean architecture based application designs. iOS is
additionally implementing a modular architecture enabling trunk based
development.
 ENGINEERING

https://zalando.github.io/tech-radar/
 DATA RAMP-UP

1. CUSTOMER QUALITY MODEL

WHAT? Based on several data points from the customer questionnaire, a random forest model predicts whether a customer will exceed a defined net basket threshold,
separating “good” from “bad” customers.
WHY? Zalon and stylists have high upfront investment in terms of logistics costs and outfit creation time. We hence want to integrate a customer‘s quality into investment
decisions.
2. CUSTOMER-STYLIST MATCHMAKING
WHAT? Zalon needs to be understood as a platform connecting customers and stylists. A matchmaking algorithm connects stylists to customers so as to maximize
customer satisfaction and net sales.
WHY? Matching customers and stylists based on non-performance-based attributes (e.g. such as availability) contributes to highly inconsistent levels of customer
satisfaction. Hence, the need to determine and propose the performance-based “best stylists” for a given customer.
3. CUSTOMER-PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION
WHAT? Originally, stylists composed each customer’s outfit via browsing the Zalando catalog, a time-consuming effort which did not leverage learnings on well- or bad
performing articles. Pre-curated articles by contrast subsume a selection of (well-performing) articles which can be quickly added to an outfit by stylists.
WHY? As Zalon, our goal is to help stylists create “a perfect outfit in no time”. We regard pre-curated articles as the major lever towards this direction.
4. OTHER
• Make fashion expertise from stylists tangible and translate those into commercial opportunities.
• Apply NLP (natural language processing) algorithms to extract usable data from conversations between stylists and customers.
• Apply image processing algorithms to extract usable data from pictures that customers share with Zalon.

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 DATA SCIENCE

For developing, training and deploying data science models we use

Python (pandas, scikit-learn, luigi). The models are deployed as
microservices on AWS, communicating via RESTful APIs. In future we
expect to add Scala and Spark to our stack.
Our data team consists of people from several different areas of Zalon,
including business, data analytics, data science and engineers. This
diversity allows us to work together effectively on a given topic.
ZALANDO ZALON TECH & DATA CAREER
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About Berlin Facts Tech stack What we are looking for
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Vision & purpose
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 TEAM SET-UP

ADAM IVO MAREIKE MARC

STANSKI SCHERKAMP HUMMEL SEELMANN

Product Owner – Dedicated owner - Product & Perf. Marketing

Data Science Zalon Engineering

JAN LAURA RENÉ DIETER

HELWICH DILTHEY VAN OLST MEEUWSSEN

Tech Delivery Brand Stylist Ops International Growth

Management

ROBERTO LAUREEN ANDREEA YOU

GONZALEZ AMOR NISCHAN LUNGULESCU …

Data Analyst HR Business partner Talent Acquisition …

 WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Based on a continuous success and further investment from Zalando SE,

we grow healthy year after year.
Currently, our Data Science team is ramping up nicely and so is our Tech
organisation.
Further, we have a number of vital roles to fill in our Core Business set-up.
We have a dedicated Career page on our website, which you should visit
here: ZALON JOBS.
Throughout your journey for securing a new role you will have a main
point of contact assigned to you, the Lead Recruiter, Andreea Lungulescu.
Feel free to approach her with any relevant questions and ask for support.
 P E R K S & C O M P E NS A T I O N

SALARY & BENEFITS – SIMPLE OVERVIEW

We will offer you a total compensation package consisting of a fixed base salary
(and equity in form of stock options – for Managerial roles).
Plus:
• A monthly subvention of your occupational pension plan with afm/Allianz of
20% (such pension plans allows to maximized your net salary)
• Occupational disability insurance at special conditions (private occupational
disability insurance offers a comprehensive protection against consequences
of diseases and accidents)
• A reduced monthly berlin public transportation ticket (BVG ticket)
• Accident insurance (at work and on the way to-from work)
• Zalando discounts of 40%
• Discounts of external partners of Zalando
• On-site and Off-site sports facilities (Yoga, Pilates, Kickboxing, Badminton,
Volleyball, Basketball, etc.)
• Car Rental (partnership with AlphaCity)
• Bike Rental
• Your hardware preferences
 P E R K S & C O M P E NS A T I ON – E Q U I T Y P L A N

KEY FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

1 2 3 4
NEW TOTAL DIFFERENT INVESTMENT TIMING: FROM
COMPENSATION PAYOUT BASED ON YOUR VESTING TO
FRAMEWORK SCHEDULES INDIVIDUAL EXERCISE
CHOICE

„Moderate“ WAITING
A 4 YEARS PERIOD
portfolio - FROM GRANT DATE
EMPLOYMENT MONTHLY SALARY „Opportunistic“
CONTRACT B INCLUDING VESTING
portfolio 1 YEAR
PERIOD
Fixed Base
+ C „Aggressive“ EXERCISE
Equity Grant 1 EQUITY GRANT portfolio 4 YEARS
PER YEAR PERIOD

We will offer you a total Whereas your fixed base salary will We will offer you three equity Your equity vests over 1 year.
compensation package consisting of be paid on monthly base, your portfolios with different risk-return Vested options can only be
a fixed base salary and equity in equity wll be granted once per year. profiles for a personal investment exercised after a 4-years waiting
form of stock options. decision. period starting from grand date.
 R E L O C A T I ON S U P P OR T

RELOCATION – SIMPLE OVERVIEW

We will receive full support from our people services teams for VISA application, etc.
Financial package to cover the costs of moving goods, transport, Hotel stays, etc.
Also, you will be supported along the process by a dedicated person from Expath - the agency that we work in strong collaboration with – http://www.Expath.De/
We will offer you the possibility to stay in one of our townhouses* (fully furnished and equipped flats for which you will pay very little – tax coverage) if you want to, for 1-2
months after relocation.
*Further information provided in separate documentation.

For personal research, please check the following online resources:

http://www.movingto-berlin.com/
http://needleberlin.com/move/#why
http://www.exberliner.com/
https://www.sympat.me/wiki/ and https://www.sympat.me/deals/
http://berlinfoodstories.com/map/
http://www.brutto-netto-rechner.info/gehalt/gross_net_calculator_germany.php
http://www.work-in-berlin.com/living-in-berlin/salaries-wages/
www.internations.org
https://www.city-wohnen.de/eng/
https://wunderflats.com/
„It‘s all about finding
and hiring people
smarter than you“
(Richard Branson)