Klarna Stockholm HQ: Office Photos & Benefits

THE HEADQUARTERS · SVEAVÄGEN 46, STOCKHOLM

“World of Klarna”: a headquarters designed like the app

Studio Stockholm redesigned Klarna's central Stockholm premises from 2020 to 2022, around six brand words — optimistic, quirky, non-judgemental, unexpected, considered and emotive. The strongest moments are the lobby, the “wow” areas and the Klarna market and food hall; team areas put function and daylight first. Fixed architecture is meant to last, with flexible pieces added on top.

Interiors: Studio Stockholm
≈ 25,000 m² project (2020–22)
Social, Meet & Focus, Work layers
Klarna market / food hall
Earlier interiors: Koncept Stockholm

The lobby and lounges (Studio Stockholm, 2022)

Studio Stockholm redesigned Klarna's central Stockholm premises from 2020 to 2022, with the lobby and the “wow” areas as the strongest moments.

Ochre sofas and a steel bar with stools beside a street window and a purple hanging installation — Lounge by the window · Photo: Per Kristiansen / Studio Stockholm

Dark lounge with a large video wall, a yellow textured armchair on a grey block and a pink soft sculpture — Lounge with video wall · Photo: Per Kristiansen / Studio Stockholm

Rounded pale arch niche next to stepped grey seating — Seating niche · Photo: Per Kristiansen / Studio Stockholm

Large lilac ball marked with a K beside a dark staircase — Stair hall · Photo: Per Kristiansen / Studio Stockholm

Rough granite stone used as a table beside an ochre sofa — Stone detail · Photo: Per Kristiansen / Studio Stockholm

Bars, pantries and team areas

Team areas put function and daylight first, while fixed architecture is meant to last with flexible pieces added on top.

Pantry with wooden cabinets, coffee machines, a rough stone column and a red curved sofa — Pantry · Photo: Per Kristiansen / Studio Stockholm

Open pantry and lounge with wood-clad walls, long grey sofa and a purple rug — Pantry and lounge · Photo: Per Kristiansen / Studio Stockholm

Reception-style steel counter between wood-clad walls, with a glass meeting room behind — Team area · Photo: Per Kristiansen / Studio Stockholm

Washroom with pink round basins, round mirrors and dark wooden stall doors — Washroom · Photo: Per Kristiansen / Studio Stockholm

Wavy white light lines over a dark slatted ceiling — Light installation · Photo: Per Kristiansen / Studio Stockholm

Earlier interiors by Koncept Stockholm

Before the 2020–2022 redesign, Klarna's headquarters interiors were designed by Koncept Stockholm.

Open lounge with blue modular sofas, a blue counter and windows onto the street — Lounge · Photo: Koncept Stockholm

Blue-lit lobby with angled perforated panels and a round black bench — Lobby · Photo: Koncept Stockholm

Blue floor and angled perforated blue wall panels by entrance gates — Entrance · Photo: Koncept Stockholm

Blue sofas in front of glass meeting rooms with large printed lettering — Lounge and meeting rooms · Photo: Koncept Stockholm

Glass meeting-room doors with large printed room numbers — Meeting rooms · Photo: Koncept Stockholm

Facts: Studio Stockholm project page “Klarna HQ” and its project text on Architizer (“World of Klarna”) · Koncept project page “Klarna HQ”. Photos are added later with credit to the designer.

Stockholm, with a registered office in London

Building	Address
Headquarters	Sveavägen 46, SE-111 34 Stockholm, Sweden
Registered office (co-working)	10 York Road, London SE1 7ND, United Kingdom

Source: klarna.com contact page (“Headquarters”) · Form 20-F 2025 (registered office, a WeWork membership) · See them on the map ↓

Stockholm office (2025)189,714 sq ft (≈ 17,625 m²)

Stockholm office (2024)244,308 sq ft (≈ 22,697 m²)

Interior designStudio Stockholm (2020–2022)

Earlier HQ interiorsKoncept Stockholm

FurnitureSvedholm Design (barista bar, pantry, bleachers)

OwnershipLeased; Klarna owns no real property

Source: Form 20-F 2025 and F-1 (2025), Facilities · Studio Stockholm, Koncept and Svedholm Design project pages

Benefits (global, with U.S. examples)

Company stockRSUs for all

The RSU Program, started in 2020, is open to all employees; grants usually vest 25% a year over four years.

PensionContributions

Defined-contribution pension plans, tailored to each market.

Health insuranceIncluded

Health and other insurance, tailored to local market requirements.

WellnessAllowance

Wellness allowances are part of the global benefits package.

Parental leave (U.S.)20 weeks

At full pay with full benefits, for mothers and fathers, biological or adoptive (policy from 2018).

Child care (U.S.)$250 / month

Child care subsidy during the child's first two years after returning to work (2018 policy).

Return to work (U.S.)20–40 h

A part-time “ramp-up” week of 20 to 40 hours for new parents coming back (2018 policy).

Hybrid work2–3 days

Most teams currently meet in the office 2–3 days a week; it varies by team.

Source: Form 20-F 2025 (Equity-Related Programs; Note 28) · Klarna Group plc Annual Report 2025 · Klarna press release, Feb 12, 2018 · Klarna job postings (2026)

Why people stay: what Klarna itself says

78%Satisfaction score

Klarna's AI-powered engagement survey, Amplifier, scored 78% in 2025 (77% in 2024); 86% of employees took part.

OpenPublished pay groups

Under KlarnaRise, compensation groups are published internally so employees can see the pay structure.

6%Gender pay gap

The global average gap on total compensation fell from 8% in 2024 to 6% in 2025; Klarna analyses pay every year.

Small teamsNo top-down management

Klarna says it turned the corporate hierarchy upside down into small, cross-functional teams with autonomy.

52%Collective agreements

52% of employees (60% in the EEA) were covered by collective bargaining agreements at the end of 2025.

100+Nationalities

Employees work in offices across three continents and represent more than 100 nationalities.

Source: Klarna Group plc Annual Report 2025 (Directors' Remuneration Report) · Form 20-F 2025 · klarna.com/careers, “Our culture”

Who works here

What they do · end of 2025 (≈ 2,831)

Engineering & data science 53%Other roles 47%

Gender · all employees, end of 2025

Men 61%Women 35%Other / not reported

≈ 2,831

full-time employees (Dec 31, 2025)

5,527 → 2,831

employees, 2022 → 2025

1,166

employees in Sweden affiliated with unions (2025)

221 of 730

managers are women (2025)

Source: Form 20-F 2025 · F-1 (2025) · Klarna Group plc Annual Report 2025 (1,723 men, 997 women, 12 other, 99 not reported)

Pay at Klarna

Posted salary range · Engineering, Stockholm (SEK a year)

Engineer$572,165 – $775,398

Senior Offensive Security Engineer$868,446 – $1,108,832

Lead Data Engineer$944,814 – $1,076,536

Source: Klarna job postings 32e481e6-16ef-48c2-8849-bd3f76304530, 5101c042-4fd3-46a4-ae3c-7aa5f0b53982 and 846a362f-2e03-4054-91cb-bf8ee87d3f34 on Klarna's job board (jobs.deel.com/klarna), October 2026. Final pay depends on qualifications, skills and experience.

Pay by ageNot published

Klarna doesn't publish pay by age.

Office history: always Stockholm, now in less space

2005
Founded in Stockholm as Kreditor
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsson founded the company on April 10, 2005, to make paying online simpler and safer. It started by letting shoppers pay after delivery.
Source: Klarna blog, “Vem grundade Klarna?” (2020) · Form 20-F 2025

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2009–10
Kreditor becomes Klarna
Kreditor took the name Klarna. By 2010 it operated in the Nordics, Germany and the Netherlands.
Source: klarna.com “About us” (2010) · Klarna blog (2009) · Form 20-F 2025

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2012
Norra Stationsgatan 61
A 2012 entry in France's public business register gives Klarna AB's head office as Norra Stationsgatan 61, 113 43 Stockholm.
Source: annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr (SIRET 788 614 584 00019)

Norra Stationsgatan (then Solnavägen), Stockholm, 1925 · Axel Swinhufvud / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
2017
A bank, and pink
Klarna received a full Swedish banking licence and changed its brand from blue to pink.
Source: Form 20-F 2025 · klarna.com “About us”

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2020–22
“World of Klarna” at the headquarters
Studio Stockholm began a global office partnership in early 2020; the first Stockholm premises of about 25,000 m² were completed in 2022. Klarna chose to build in-house rather than have the landlord renovate.
Source: Studio Stockholm project page “Klarna HQ”

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2024
Parent company moves to London on paper
Klarna Group plc became the parent in May 2024, with its registered office at 10 York Road, London, in co-working space. The operating headquarters stayed at Sveavägen 46 in Stockholm.
Source: Form 20-F 2025 · klarna.com contact page

York Road, Waterloo, London, 2021 · Ethan Doyle White / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
2025
Listed in New York, smaller offices
Klarna listed on the NYSE on September 10, 2025. To cut costs it ended leases in Amsterdam and Mannheim and shrank its Stockholm space from 244,308 to 189,714 sq ft to fit a hybrid way of working.
Source: Form 20-F 2025 · F-1 (2025) · Annual Report 2025 · Klarna press release

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Annual report	HQ space (sq ft)	m²	As described
F-1 (Dec 2024)	244,308	22,697	Stockholm office, leased
20-F 2025	189,714	17,625	Stockholm office, leased

Map: how the headquarters moved

Klarna has stayed in central Stockholm: from Norra Stationsgatan to Sveavägen is about 2 km. Since 2024 its parent company's registered office is in London.

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1 · 2012Norra Stationsgatan 61, Stockholm — Klarna AB's head office in a 2012 public register entry
2 · 202410 York Road, London — Registered office of Klarna Group plc (co-working)
3 · TodaySveavägen 46, Stockholm — Headquarters

Addresses: klarna.com contact page · Form 20-F 2025 · annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr · Locations: OpenStreetMap

What Klarna does

Klarna is a digital bank and flexible-payments network: shoppers pay now, later or over time, and merchants pay Klarna to offer it. It also sells advertising and runs the Klarna Card and paid memberships.

One operating segment; revenue reported by country.

Where the money came from · revenue by country, 2025

United StatesLargest market

$1.24B

GermanyLargest European market

$0.85B

United Kingdom

$0.44B

Other countries26 countries in all

$0.98B

Source: Form 20-F 2025, Note 4 (geographical breakdown)

Revenue, 2025$3.51Bup 25% in a year

GMV, 2025$128Bup 21%

Net loss, 2025$273MIFRS

Revenue per employee$1.24M$3,509M ÷ 2,831

Source: Form 20-F 2025 · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo

Growth: revenue vs. people

1.8×revenue, 2022 → 2025
$1.9B → $3.5B

0.5×employees, same years
5,527 → 2,831

YearRevenueEmployees

FY2022

$1.9B

5,527

FY2023

$2.3B

4,352

FY2024

$2.8B

3,422

FY2025

$3.5B

2,831

Calendar years, US dollars as reported. Revenue and full-time employees: F-1 (2025) and Form 20-F 2025. Earlier years were reported in Swedish kronor and are not shown. Multiples calculated by eciffo.

Chief executives

No free-to-use photo.

2005 – today

Sebastian Siemiatkowski

Co-founder. CEO and board member since February 2005.

Co-founders: Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsson.

Source: Form 20-F 2025 · Klarna blog (2020)

Klarna's official social accounts

Accounts linked from Klarna's newsroom.

X (Twitter)@Klarna ↗Newsroomklarna.com/international/press ↗Investor relationsinvestors.klarna.com ↗

Klarna: questions people ask

Where is Klarna's headquarters?

At Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden. The parent company, Klarna Group plc, has its registered office in co-working space at 10 York Road, London.

Source: klarna.com contact page · Form 20-F 2025

Who designed Klarna's office?

Studio Stockholm designed the “World of Klarna” interiors (2020–2022). An earlier headquarters interior, with meeting rooms named Algorithm, Transparency and Safety, was by Koncept Stockholm.

Source: Studio Stockholm and Koncept project pages

How big is Klarna's Stockholm office?

Klarna leased 189,714 sq ft (about 17,625 m²) in Stockholm at the end of 2025, down from 244,308 sq ft a year earlier.

Source: Form 20-F 2025 · F-1 (2025)

How many people work at Klarna?

About 2,831 full-time employees at the end of 2025, down from 5,527 in 2022. About 53% work in engineering and data science.

Source: Form 20-F 2025 · F-1 (2025)

Does Klarna allow remote or hybrid work?

Klarna values co-located teams: its 2026 job postings say most teams meet in the office 2–3 days a week, varying by team. The 2025 annual report describes a hybrid work model.

Source: Klarna job postings · Annual Report 2025

What benefits does Klarna offer?

Restricted stock units open to all employees, pension contributions, health insurance, parental leave and wellness allowances, tailored to each market. In the U.S., Klarna introduced 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave in 2018.

Source: Form 20-F 2025 · Annual Report 2025 · Klarna press release (2018)

How much do engineers at Klarna in Stockholm make?

2026 postings list SEK 572,165–775,398 a year for an Engineer and SEK 944,814–1,076,536 for a Lead Data Engineer.

Source: Klarna job postings (jobs.deel.com/klarna)

When was Klarna founded?

On April 10, 2005, in Stockholm, under the name Kreditor.

Source: Klarna blog (2020) · Form 20-F 2025

Who is Klarna's CEO?

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, a co-founder, has been CEO since February 2005.

Source: Form 20-F 2025

Klarna Headquarters & offices · Stockholm, Sweden

A Stockholm headquarters built on “opposites attract” — rough with smooth, a food hall for the wow — where every employee can receive company stock.