Here are the questions we get asked most. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, our team is happy to talk it through.
Scede is a global scaling partner for technology companies. We provide embedded talent acquisition, people operations support, and hands-on training for Talent, People, and HR teams, at every stage of growth.
We help companies hire hard-to-find technical, product, and commercial talent through embedded team models and focused sourcing sprints. Alongside delivery, we support long-term capability building, so your internal team gets stronger as you scale, not more dependent on us.
No. Unlike a traditional agency, we don’t operate on a placement-fee model or work as an external supplier. Our Talent Partners embed inside your organisation, use your tools and brand, and take end-to-end ownership of the hiring process.
Neither. Consultancies advise; staffing companies supply. We do both, and then we execute. Our people sit inside your business, run hiring day-to-day, and improve your processes through real delivery rather than a slide deck of recommendations.
Primarily technology-led start ups, scale ups, and enterprise organisations that need specialist hiring support and scalable people capability. From Series A founders building their first team to post-IPO businesses scaling across multiple regions. o it.
Yes. We work with enterprise organisations including publicly listed companies. Trustpilot is a good example – we’ve had an ongoing partnership with them post-IPO, scaling hiring across multiple European regions and improving sourcing outcomes at volume.
Yes, particularly from Series B onwards. If you’re a founder or early People leader who needs experienced recruiters quickly, without committing to a full in-house team, our embedded model gives you senior hiring capability from day one, without the overhead.
When hiring is business-critical, specialist, or ongoing and your internal team doesn’t have the capacity or experience to deliver at the pace required. Common triggers include: scaling after funding, entering new markets, building out a new function, or needing to meaningfully improve hiring quality and consistency.
We’ve partnered with a wide range of technology companies, from venture-backed startups to public, post-IPO businesses. Our customers include Trustpilot, Pleo, and Mollie, alongside many private tech businesses hiring across product, engineering, data, and commercial functions.
Our Talent Partners work inside your organisation, using your tools, systems, and employer brand; as if they were part of your internal team. They handle deep role qualification, proactive sourcing, candidate engagement, and ongoing calibration with your hiring managers. The result is a hiring function that learns and improves over time, not one that resets with every new brief.
Scede Source is our sprint-based sourcing service for hard-to-fill or time-sensitive roles, without a long-term commitment. It runs on a structured 30-day methodology covering role qualification, market mapping, proactive sourcing, candidate engagement, and shortlisting.
Our advisory service helps companies design, assess, and improve their talent acquisition and people practices. This includes hiring process reviews, role framework design, interview structure, team design, and tooling, including selecting and implementing the right ATS for your organisation.
We’re typically up and running within 1-2 weeks. That onboarding period is used to immerse ourselves in your business, align on tools and priorities, calibrate with hiring managers, and agree on success metrics, so we can deliver from day one, not week four.
Onboarding focuses on immersion and alignment. It includes business and role context sessions, agreement on success metrics, access to your tools and systems, calibration with hiring managers, and setting up reporting and communication rhythms. The goal is for the Scede team to feel like your team from the moment they start.
Our Talent Partners are experienced practitioners with backgrounds in scaling tech companies. They bring deep expertise across engineering, product, data, and commercial hiring. They’re used to working in fast-moving environments where quality and speed both matter.
Yes. Our Embedded and Source solutions are designed to flex with your business. Capacity can be scaled up or down in line with hiring demand, funding cycles, or shifting priorities; without long-term overhead or rigid contract structures.
Through a structured, repeatable process: deep role qualification, clear success criteria, proactive sourcing, consistent screening, and ongoing calibration throughout. Quality is prioritised at every stage, and not sacrificed for speed or volume.
With outcome-focused metrics aligned to your goals. These typically include time to hire, sourced VS inbound mix, pipeline conversion rates, offer acceptance, and hiring manager satisfaction. Where relevant, we also track longer-term indicators like role performance and retention. Metrics are reviewed regularly so we can continuously improve.
Recruitment agencies work externally, filling individual roles on a placement fee. We embed inside your organisation, take end-to-end ownership of the hiring process, and work to improve quality, speed, and consistency over time; not just close the immediate vacancy.
Consultancies analyse and recommend. We do that too, but we also execute. Our teams run day-to-day hiring inside your business, improving processes and decision-making through real delivery rather than presenting recommendations and moving on.
Freelancers typically fill short-term gaps or support specific tasks. Our embedded model provides a dedicated, accountable team that owns end-to-end delivery across multiple roles and stakeholders; bringing consistency, shared context, and continuous improvement that a single freelancer rarely can.
We’re a UK-founded company operating globally. Our teams support organisations across the UK, Europe, and North America, adapting to local hiring markets while working within a consistent delivery model.
No. We support hiring across engineering, product, data, design, and commercial functions. Our teams are structured around functional expertise, so companies can scale multiple disciplines in-line with business priorities – not just the technical ones.
Yes. We support GTM hiring alongside technical hiring, including sales, marketing, customer success, revenue operations, and commercial leadership. Scaling product delivery and commercial execution in parallel is something we’re set up to do well.
Yes. We work with some of the best games companies in the world, including Supercell, Trailmix, Metacore, and Space Ape, helping them hire the specialist talent that makes great games possible. That includes roles like game designers, character artists, and technical artists, through to the broader product, engineering, and commercial hires that keep a studio scaling.
No. We work alongside your internal Talent and People team, adding capacity, specialist expertise, and structure where needed. The goal is to help your team move faster and focus on strategic priorities, not to make them redundant.
No. Outsourcing means handing work off to an external provider. We do the opposite – embedding directly into your organisation, working within your internal structures, tools, and decision-making. We provide shared ownership, not arm’s-length delivery.
What I loved about Scede was that we had very experienced, competent recruiters join our Mollie TA team within a short time frame. I’ve worked with bigger RPOs before and the process and how it’s managed is worlds apart.
Scede haven’t just hired great people for us, they’ve set the foundations for the next 4-5 years in terms of Graphcore’s growth and story.
I wanted to thank you for the great job you have done this year. You helped us scale from 23 to 120 in less than 9 months. The roles you worked on were not easy and still the quality of candidates you brought and closed was superb.
Everyone I worked with from Scede were true subject matter experts - they really added value to our internal talent team, acted as our strategic partners and delivered on what was promised when it came to our hiring plan.
The Scede People team have been my go-to advisors for all people-related matters, in particular on progression and compensation planning. Multiverse
Scede have been the best experience I’ve had working with an outsourced talent partner - I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them at all. They were super experienced and able to handle the uncertainty that comes with scale-up.
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