Two offices and one habit we never skip

Most of us work from Stockholm, Milan or home. Twice a year everyone gets on a plane, because the product we build is about meeting in person.

The Stockholm office, a bright room with long oak desks and tall windows
Stockholm, Södermalm80 people
Colleagues working on laptops along a long oak table under pendant lamps
Milan, Isola40 people, plus 20 remote

It started with a spreadsheet

Ten years ago, getting a team into one room meant forty tabs, three agencies and a lot of email. We still think it should take an afternoon, and we are still working on it.

  1. 2016

    Two engineers plan their company offsite in a spreadsheet and decide there has to be a better way.

  2. 2018

    The first hundred companies book a trip on Vandra. The team is twelve people in Stockholm.

  3. 2020

    Milan opens, close to the venues we work with across Southern Europe.

  4. 2023

    The new planner ships. A trip for eight hundred people now takes an afternoon to set up.

  5. 2026

    2,400 companies, 30,000 trips planned and 140 of us.

How a week works

The same rhythm in both offices and at home, so nobody has to guess when to talk and when to work.

  1. Monday

    Plan

    Every team writes its week down in one short doc. No meeting runs past thirty minutes.

  2. Tuesday

    Focus

    No internal meetings before two. Calls with customers are the only exception.

  3. Wednesday

    Office day

    Both offices fill up, lunch is on us and the hard conversations happen in person.

  4. Thursday

    Focus

    No internal meetings at all. Most of the week's real work gets done today.

  5. Friday

    Show

    Demos at three, in Stockholm, Milan and on camera. Anyone can show anything.

Six things we hold on to

Written down in 2019 and changed twice since. Ask anyone here about them and you will get the same answer.

  1. 01Small teams, whole problems

    Five to seven people own a problem from the first sketch to the support ticket.

  2. 02Customers in the room

    Every team talks to the people who use Vandra at least once a week.

  3. 03Plain words

    Docs, tickets and job ads are written so a new joiner understands them on day one.

  4. 04Pay in the open

    Salary bands are public inside and outside the company. Nobody negotiates in the dark.

  5. 05Leave on time

    Nobody is on call for trips at night. Partners in each city handle the late flights.

  6. 06Disagree, then commit

    Say it in the doc or the meeting. Once it is decided, we all build the same thing.

The whole company on sofas and benches listening to a talk at the all hands
Three people working at a window desk in late afternoon sun
An engineer writing up a plan by hand at his desk
A tidy home desk by the window with a laptop and a second screen
Two colleagues talking across a small round table

The offices

Come in as often as you like. The twenty of us who work remotely get a trip to either one whenever they want.

  • Stockholm

    Where Vandra started, in 2016, above a bakery on Södermalm. Still the bigger of the two.

    Address
    Götgatan 48, Södermalm
    People
    80
    Teams
    Engineering
    Product
    Sales
    Every day
    Fika at three

  • Milan

    Opened in 2020 to be closer to the venues we work with across Southern Europe.

    Address
    Via Pastrengo 14, Isola
    People
    40
    Teams
    Design
    Operations
    Engineering
    Every day
    Lunch on the terrace

Where we have been

Two company trips a year, planned on Vandra by whoever volunteers. Somewhere none of us has been before.

  1. Colleagues walking a tiled street in Alfama with the river below
    Spring 2026140 people

    Lisbon, Portugal

    Three days, one product review and a long dinner in Alfama.

  2. Colleagues pulling suitcases along the snowy harbour in Tromsø
    Autumn 2025132 people

    Tromsø, Norway

    Planning for 2026 by day, the northern lights by night.

  3. Spring 2025120 people

    Seville, Spain

    The first trip booked end to end on our own new planner.

  4. Autumn 2024104 people

    Turin, Italy

    A hackathon in an old car factory, and a lot of coffee.

What people ask us

The questions that come up in almost every first call, answered before you have to ask.

Can I work fully remote?

Yes, from anywhere in Europe. Twenty of us do, and the company pays for the trips to either office.

Do I need Swedish or Italian?

No. We work in English. Both offices run free language lessons if you want them.

Are the team trips mandatory?

No, but almost everyone goes. If you cannot travel, we plan a part of the trip you can join from home.

How are salaries set?

Each level has one band, the same in both offices, published on every role and on the benefits page.

Do you help with relocation?

Yes. Visa, flights and the first month of housing are on us, plus a local buddy for the first weeks.

How fast do people grow?

Levels are reviewed twice a year. About one in five people moved up a level in 2025.

The next trip has a seat for you

18 roles are open across five teams, all with the salary band on the page.

  • The salary band is on every role
  • Work from Stockholm, Milan or anywhere in Europe
  • Two team trips a year, paid for
  • An answer within two weeks of applying
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Two colleagues working together on one laptop at an oak table in the Stockholm office