Scede, the go-to flexible recruitment partner for scaling tech companies and games studios, today announced a strategic partnership with People Collective – a people consultancy that helps companies and their people reach their full potential.
The partnership marks a new era for growing organisations, providing startups, scale-ups and category-leading brands with one consolidated and trusted partner for solving key people and talent needs. This will accelerate the ability of Founders and business leaders to achieve people and talent success, enabling long-term, sustainable company growth.
“For over a decade, Scede’s purpose had been to enable scaling companies to achieve hiring success. Our ambition now is to solve a broader set of people and talent challenges across the entire talent lifecycle through a range of flexible solutions that help companies achieve key growth outcomes and goals. The strategic partnership with the People Collective is our first step towards achieving this,” said Matthew Ellis, Founder and CEO of Scede. “The People Collective have deep experience solving people challenges for some of Europe’s most ambitious scaling companies. They share our unwavering commitment to delivering an exceptional service to customers and as such, we are thrilled to welcome them to the Scede group.”
The People Collective helps companies understand where their biggest people challenges lie, shaping and implementing people-first practices that solve for these and create engaged, high-performing teams as a result. Since 2018, they’ve supported 150 organisations including Deliveroo, Multiverse, and Vestiaire Collective – advising and delivering on core People projects including levelling and progression, manager development, and compensation and salary benchmarking.
“Following the pandemic, the talent market saw an aggressive ascent. Many companies scaled at unprecedented rates from a people perspective, especially in the tech space. People and talent teams are under immense pressure to be more effective and productive with fewer resources than ever before. As the market begins to normalise, we strongly believe there will be an increase in companies taking a hybrid approach to achieving people and talent goals – blending in-house capability with the capacity and expertise of trusted external providers,” said Matthew Ellis.
“When you look at the talent lifecycle – from attracting and hiring people, through to engaging, developing and ultimately retaining them – there is a broad spectrum of challenges that companies face through different stages of growth and maturity. Right now, the external partner landscape to solve these is incredibly noisy and fragmented. Through our strategic partnership with the People Collective we want to go some way towards consolidating that – better supporting the people and talent needs of our current and future customers under one roof,” commented Matthew Ellis.
“Scede’s leadership and reputation in recruitment is undisputed – having helped over 100 scaling companies globally to attract and hire incredible talent. Their approach to shaping their services is very much aligned with ours at the People Collective – being highly tailored to drive impact, consistency and quality in delivery. The team at the People Collective and I are excited to be joining forces with them,” said Matt Bradburn, Founder and CEO of People Collective.
People and talent are a critical part of any scaling journey. Together, Scede and the People Collective offer a set of flexible strategic consulting and tactical delivery services that allow organisations to put robust recruitment and people practices in place, enabling them to hire and retain top talent to join them on their mission.
Blending strategic and tactical delivery, these services have been designed by industry experts who have experience delivering talent and people success at all stages of company growth – from early-stage startups to those that have hit unicorn status, been acquired, or IPOd.
“Both Matt and I have spoken to thousands of investors and business leaders over the last decade. The ability to attract, hire, engage, and develop talent is consistently a leading constraint on any scaling journey. Through our combined experiences covering the full people stack, Scede and the People Collective give businesses both the capacity and specialism they need to enable people and talent success,” commented Matthew Ellis.
“In a world where there is a very clear intention to blend internal and external resources for people and talent teams, being able to cut through the noise and engage with a highly credible partner with a proven track record of delivering success for your most valuable product, your people, is becoming an ever more essential part of the business toolkit.”
The People Collective is a strategic partner of Scede’s with immediate effect. For more information on this, please visit the Seced People page.
About Scede
Scede enables scaling companies to achieve hiring success. They partner with tech companies and games studios to help them achieve their talent goals. Since 2013, they’ve scaled teams for 100+ businesses in Europe and North America via their flexible, subscription-based and pay-as-you-go recruitment solutions.
About People Collective
People Collective enables companies and their people to reach their full potential. Since 2018, they’ve supported 150+ startups, scale-ups, and category leaders to shape powerful people experiences that empower them and their teams to perform at their best.