First off you will need a personal number (Personnummer) which takes around 4 weeks. Once you do that it is pretty cruical to learn swedish if you want a job, even though you have a impressive resumé. Ofcourse there are people working in Sweden not knowing swedish and getting on fine, but it does make things easier. I'm swedish and work with a person that is foreign knowing only little swedish. Swede's speak generally very well english. The culture should'nt be so different if you are comming from the states, but there are some things that can be good to know in our culture, this website has actually hit the spot on 20 things to know, http://www.sweden.se/eng/home/lifestyle/reading/20-things-to-know-before-moving-to-sweden/ . Finding housing could be difficult depending on where you want to move or what budget you have. Stockholm is a pretty expensive city and there are not many apartments vacant. If you are able to buy a apartment/house it makes things much easier, but I honestly don't know how it works for foreigners borrowing money from a bank. www.lagenhet.se is a good website unfortuanatly it seems to be all in swedish! www.skatteverket.se is the tax office in Sweden and also where you will get most of you're paper work that is needed, its worth clicking around (you can choose language to english aswell), they have other information there too. www.arbetsformedlingen.se is where you can find work, there you can also get a so called job-coach that can for example find a company which doesn't require fluent swedish.

Hope this was helpful to some extent! Good luck and enjoy Sweden :)

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