Zalando

Zalando creates 200 jobs in Dublin

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Zalando announced a major expansion plan for Dublin today

23 April 2015

Zalando SE, an online fashion platform is opening a Fashion Insights Centre in Dublin’s Silicon Docks, leading to the creation of 200 jobs over the next three years.

The new jobs will be in the fields research and development, Big Data analytics, data science and engineering.

The investment is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation through IDA Ireland.

Zalando was founded in 2008 by David Schneider and Robert Gentz and today has a presence in 15 European countries selling fashion clothing, sports gear and shoes, to close to 15 million active customers, generating €2.2 billion in revenue in 2014.

Robert Gentz said: “Understanding our customers, and gaining deep insights into their purchasing patterns and their behaviour online means we can provide them with a personalised and compelling offering. Investing to understand these insights has driven our growth since the earliest days of our company and has been the key to our success. The new Zalando Fashion Insights Centre in Dublin will play a major role as we continue to lead online fashion and grow our presence across Europe.”

“We will offer graduates and experienced people the opportunity to work on exciting engineering and data science challenges, said Eric Bowman, VP engineering, Zalando. “We’re looking for the best engineers and data scientists in Dublin, Europe and the world, people who thrive on solving hard problems and delivering impact. We want independent thinkers, brilliant executioners, people who love a challenge, working on deep problems and working with the smartest people, while creating a great team culture.”

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