ZalandoESG & Sustainability Jobs

Zalando - Shoes and Fashion Online in Europe

Zalando is a European e-commerce platform selling fashion, footwear, beauty, and lifestyle products to consumers across Europe. It operates its own logistics network, hosts third-party brand and retail partners, and runs several private labels alongside a pre-owned category.

Why it matters

Fashion is a high-impact industry for carbon emissions, waste, and labor conditions. Zalando has a dedicated sustainability function embedded in its product and technology teams - reflected in roles spanning sustainable product design, software engineering, and analytics. The company publishes annual sustainability progress reports, produces CSRD-aligned disclosures, and tracks an "attitude-behaviour gap" in consumer sustainability choices. Its pre-owned category (in partnership with Vestiaire Collective) directly extends garment lifetimes, reducing demand for new production.

Zalando operates at significant scale across Europe, meaning its choices around packaging, returns logistics, supplier standards, and how it surfaces sustainable products to millions of shoppers carry material environmental and social consequences. The sustainability and D&I teams work inside the core product and platform - not as a separate reporting function.