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Notion Headquarters & offices · San Francisco, California

Double-height space with a curved wooden staircase beside a coffee bar, globe pendant lights and café tables — Barista café and the curved staircase · © IA Interior Architects / Photo: Garrett Rowland

Lounge with coffered wood ceiling, sheer curtains, Persian rugs, molded wood chairs and a red banquette — Lounge with banquettes · © IA Interior Architects / Photo: Garrett Rowland

Narrow room with a coffered wood ceiling, long lit bookshelves, red armchairs and patterned runners — Wood-paneled library · © IA Interior Architects / Photo: Garrett Rowland

Open floor with a white sectional sofa on a rug, desks with monitors and tall red-framed windows onto the city — Lounge seating by the windows · © Brereton Architect

Long wooden table with leather chairs in a wood-paneled room framed by sheer curtains — Long table in a paneled room · © Brereton Architect

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Notion · San Francisco, California

A tech headquarters run like a hotel: a barista café, a courtyard, a wood-paneled library and a grand staircase inside a landmark built after the 1906 earthquake.

The building, the perks and the story from a flat in Japan to Market Street — then the pay. Every fact from Notion's own careers site and blog, and from the architects who designed the office.

10 storieslandmark Monadnock Building on Market Street
65,000 sq ftof amenity and gathering space by IA
3 daysin the office each week: Mon, Tue, Thu
100M+people using Notion (2024)

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Sources: IA Interior Architects project page “Notion” · Brereton Architect project page “Notion HQ” · notion.com/careers · Notion blog “100 Million of You” (Sep 3, 2024)

Companies / United States / Software / Notion

THE HEADQUARTERS TODAY · MONADNOCK BUILDING

A hotel-like ground floor inside a 1906-era landmark

Notion's expanded headquarters fills the landmarked 10-story Monadnock Building on Market Street. IA turned the first and second floors into amenity and gathering spaces: a concierge reception around a barista café, a new opening to an interior courtyard, a curved staircase with built-in banquettes, an all-hands lounge that doubles as the lunchroom, a social club lounge, a training room facing Market Street, a wood-paneled library and a deep-focus room. Translucent curtains open and close spaces, and Notion's signature red appears in details such as wayfinding. Brereton Architect completed the interior fit-out of the offices, keeping exposed structure, masonry and metalwork.

Monadnock Building, 10 stories
65,000 sq ft amenity floors (≈ 6,039 m²)
Barista café + interior courtyard
Wood-paneled library
Interiors: IA Interior Architects
Fit-out: Brereton Architect

Café, reception, staircase and library (IA, floors 1–2)

IA turned the first and second floors into amenity space: a concierge reception around a barista café, a curved staircase with built-in banquettes and a wood-paneled library.

Curved wooden staircase rising beside a coffee bar with pendant lights and bentwood café chairs — Barista café and the curved staircase · © IA Interior Architects / Photo: Garrett Rowland

Entry with a carved wooden desk on a red Persian rug, coffered ceiling, glass doors and a red-and-blue chair — Reception · © IA Interior Architects / Photo: Garrett Rowland

Lounge with coffered wood ceiling, sheer curtains, molded wood chairs and a red banquette along the wall — Lounge with banquettes · © IA Interior Architects / Photo: Garrett Rowland

Bookshelves lit from below along a wood wall, red armchairs and runners under a coffered ceiling — Wood-paneled library · © IA Interior Architects / Photo: Garrett Rowland

The workplace floors (Brereton fit-out)

Brereton Architect completed the interior fit-out of the offices in the 10-story Monadnock Building, keeping exposed structure, masonry and metalwork.

White sectional sofa on a rug next to desks, under a white-painted ceiling with tall red-framed windows — Lounge seating by the windows · © Brereton Architect

Long wooden table lined with leather chairs in a wood-paneled room with sheer curtains — Long table in a paneled room · © Brereton Architect

Wood-paneled room with a wooden table, leather chairs, a seascape painting and tall windows behind sheer curtains — Paneled room with tall windows · © Brereton Architect

Wood-paneled counter around a riveted white steel column, with café tables and shelves of cups — Counter and café tables · © Brereton Architect

Close view of a riveted white steel column rising through a white stone counter — Exposed steel column · © Brereton Architect

Detail of a carved wooden counter cap with a riveted column and pendant lights behind — Woodwork detail · © Brereton Architect

Marble-floored corridor with elevators, wood wainscoting, framed posters and Persian runners — Elevator corridor · © Brereton Architect

Window corner with two wooden armchairs on a red rug, wood paneling and a view of brick buildings — Seating by a window · © Brereton Architect

Wood-paneled wall with a lit niche and a vase of branches, wooden chairs on a red rug — Paneled corner · © Brereton Architect

Facts: IA Interior Architects project page “Notion” (photography by Garrett Rowland) · Brereton Architect project page “Notion HQ”. Photos are shown with credit to the designers; we remove any photo on request.

The Monadnock Building, Market Street

Building	Address
Headquarters — Monadnock Building	685 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Source: IA and Brereton project pages (Notion's headquarters in the Monadnock Building) · Brookfield Properties building page (685 Market Street, “The Monadnock Building”) · See them on the map ↓

Interior design (amenity floors)IA Interior Architects

Interior fit-outBrereton Architect

IA project area65,000 sq ft (≈ 6,039 m²)

Building10 stories, 205,000 sq ft (≈ 19,045 m²)

Built1906

PhotographyGarrett Rowland (IA)

Source: IA project page “Notion” · Brereton project page “Notion HQ” · Brookfield Properties building page for 685 Market Street (building size and year built)

Benefits

Health insurancePremiums covered

Medical, dental and vision for you and your dependents, with premiums covered in most cases.

Mental healthTherapy

Therapy, coaching, medication management and EAP services; gender-affirming care funds on top.

Lifestyle stipendMonthly

A monthly stipend to spend on what matters to you, plus commuter funds and a phone stipend.

Food at the officeLunch

Lunch and snacks.

Art PassMuseums

A Notion x Art Pass to visit museums around the world.

FamilyParental leave

Paid leave for biological, adoptive and foster parents, plus Carrot funds for fertility and family-forming.

RetirementCompany match

Retirement and pension plans with a company match, plus help with equity, financial planning and tax.

Time offFlexible

Flexible paid vacation, holidays and a company-wide year-end closure.

Source: notion.com/careers, Benefits. Notion does not publish the length of parental leave or the size of the stipends.

Why people stay: what Notion itself says

3 daysAnchor Days together

Notion calls itself an in-person company: teams meet in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

LiquiditySelling shares before an IPO

A private tender of about $270M in early 2026 let current and former employees sell shares; Notion waived the one-year option cliff so almost everyone could take part.

LearningFunds to keep growing

Money for courses, training and subscriptions.

CraftA company of tool-makers

Notion says it is for people who care about craft and making work better for others.

Art PassMuseums around the world

A Notion x Art Pass to visit museums, alongside a monthly lifestyle stipend.

Source: notion.com/careers (values, Life at Notion, Benefits) · Notion blog, “GIC, Sequoia, Index purchase Notion shares in private tender offer” (Jan 27, 2026)

Who works here

office cities listed on the careers site: San Francisco, New York, Dublin, Seoul, Hyderabad, Tokyo, Sydney

+ Singapore

new APAC office opened in 2025–26

Mon · Tue · Thu

Anchor Days in the office

“Notinos”

what Notion calls its employees

Source: notion.com/careers · Notion job postings · Notion blog (Jan 27, 2026). Notion does not publish its headcount or workforce breakdown.

Pay at Notion

Base salary ranges in Notion job postings · San Francisco or New York City

Payroll Analyst$120,000 – $140,000

Software Engineer, Product Infrastructure$150,000 – $200,000

Software Engineer, Developer Platform$213,000 – $320,000

Source: Notion job postings linked from notion.com/careers, Oct 2026 (Ashby IDs 92de7ece-b7d9-4b2a-b9cb-b978cc690a46, ca74504a-9b91-4ce3-b0df-97919b46e749, 1fc309c8-da20-4ff2-84c7-8b863ece2b0a). Base salary only; equity and benefits are on top.

Office history: from a flat in Japan to a Market Street landmark

2013
Started in San Francisco
Notion started in 2013 and first debuted in San Francisco. Its original pitch deck already described an all-in-one tool and a marketplace of things built on it.
Source: Notion blog “100 Million of You” (2024) · IA project page “Notion”

San Francisco, 2013 · King of Hearts / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
2013–18
The “lost years” and a flat in Japan
Notion was rebuilt four times and nearly died. With the right product but the wrong tech stack, co-founders Ivan Zhao and Simon Last went to Japan and rewrote it from a flat there — which is why the main code repository is still called “notion-next”.
Source: Notion blog “100 Million of You” (2024)

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Early years
Office #3 and 30 shades of white
Back in San Francisco, the team tried 30 shades of warm white for an office wall. Co-founder Akshay Kothari painted office #3 himself, in Benjamin Moore OC-97 “Cream Froth”.
Source: Notion blog “100 Million of You” (2024)

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2018
Notion 2.0 takes off
The Notion 2.0 launch on Product Hunt brought the first signs of traction. Notion passed 1 million users in 2020 and 100 million in 2024.
Source: Notion blog “100 Million of You” (2024)

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Today
Headquarters in the Monadnock Building
Notion's expanded headquarters is in the landmarked 10-story Monadnock Building on Market Street, near Union Square. Brereton Architect completed the interior fit-out; IA reimagined the first and second floors as amenity and gathering spaces.
Source: IA project page “Notion” · Brereton project page “Notion HQ”

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2025–26
A new office in Singapore
To follow fast growth in Asia-Pacific, Notion opened an office in Singapore, alongside its regional offices in Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney.
Source: Notion blog, CFO Rama Katkar (Jan 27, 2026)

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Map: how the headquarters moved

Notion's early San Francisco offices and the flat in Japan have no published addresses. Today the headquarters is on Market Street, next to Union Square and the cable car turntable.

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1 · TodayMonadnock Building, 685 Market Street — Notion's expanded headquarters in downtown San Francisco

Address: IA and Brereton project pages · Brookfield Properties building page · Location: OpenStreetMap

What Notion does

Notion makes an all-in-one workspace: docs, wikis, databases and projects built from “blocks”, now with AI and custom agents. Its founders say it is built on the 1970s idea that software can “augment human intellect”.

Users, Aug 2024100M+up from 1M in 2020

Valuation, Jan 2026$11Bin a $270M employee share tender

AI share of ARR, end of 202550%+from AI-enabled customers; more than doubled in a year

ProfitabilityEarlyNotion says it has been profitable from early in its history

Source: Notion blog — “100 Million of You” (Ivan Zhao, Sep 3, 2024) · “GIC, Sequoia, Index purchase Notion shares in private tender offer” (CFO Rama Katkar, Jan 27, 2026) · “Meet Notion's Board of Directors” (Jun 9, 2026). Notion is private and does not publish revenue.

Chief executives

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Today

Ivan Zhao

Co-founder and CEO. Rewrote Notion with Simon Last in Japan during the company's early “lost years”.

Co-founders: Ivan Zhao and Simon Last; Notion's blog also calls Akshay Kothari a co-founder.

Source: Notion blog — “100 Million of You” (2024), “Meet Notion's Board of Directors” (2026)

Hear it from the CEO

Mar 22, 2024 · Notion blogFirst Block with Notion Co-Founders Ivan Zhao and Simon LastOfficial interview series on the early days of building Notion ↗ Sep 3, 2024 · Notion blog100 Million of YouIvan Zhao on the lost years, Japan and the early offices ↗

Notion: questions people ask

Where is Notion's headquarters?

In the Monadnock Building at 685 Market Street in downtown San Francisco, a landmarked 10-story building near Union Square.

Source: IA project page “Notion” · Brereton project page · Brookfield Properties building page

Who designed Notion's office?

Brereton Architect completed the interior fit-out of the headquarters. IA Interior Architects redesigned the first and second floors as amenity and gathering spaces.

Source: Brereton project page “Notion HQ” · IA project page “Notion”

What is inside Notion's headquarters?

A concierge reception around a barista café, an interior courtyard, a curved staircase with built-in banquettes, an all-hands lounge and lunchroom, a social club lounge, a training room, a wood-paneled library and a deep-focus room.

Source: IA project page “Notion”

How big is Notion's headquarters?

IA's amenity and gathering project covers 65,000 sq ft (≈ 6,039 m²). Notion does not publish the total area it occupies.

Source: IA project page “Notion”

Does Notion allow remote work?

Notion calls itself an in-person company. Employees work from the office three Anchor Days a week: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

Source: notion.com/careers · Notion job postings

What benefits does Notion offer?

Health insurance with premiums covered in most cases, therapy and coaching, a monthly lifestyle stipend, commuter and phone stipends, lunch, a Notion x Art Pass for museums, paid parental leave, Carrot family-forming funds, a retirement match and flexible paid vacation with a year-end closure.

Source: notion.com/careers

How much do Notion employees make?

Notion's job postings list base salary ranges for San Francisco and New York City, for example $150,000–$200,000 for a Software Engineer, Product Infrastructure and $213,000–$320,000 for a Software Engineer, Developer Platform (2026).

Source: Notion job postings linked from notion.com/careers

Where does Notion have offices?

San Francisco, New York, Dublin, Seoul, Hyderabad, Tokyo and Sydney are listed on the careers site, and Notion opened an office in Singapore in 2025–26.

Source: notion.com/careers · Notion blog (Jan 27, 2026)

Did Notion really start in Japan?

Notion started in San Francisco in 2013. During its early “lost years”, co-founders Ivan Zhao and Simon Last went to Japan and rewrote the product from a flat there.

Source: Notion blog “100 Million of You” (2024)

Who is Notion's CEO?

Ivan Zhao, who co-founded Notion and leads it today.

Source: Notion blog “Meet Notion's Board of Directors” (2026)

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