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Fueling Yoco’s growth: Scaling teams & launching market-leading innovation with Scede’s Embedded Recruitment Solution

As Yoco experienced rapid product success and expansion, the company partnered with Scede to scale its teams across Product, Technology, and Data.

Scede played a critical role in enabling Yoco to launch a new point-of-sale (POS) product, now a high-demand solution in South Africa. By delivering top-tier talent, Scede helped Yoco drive innovation and accelerate its go-to-market strategy.

Over a two-year partnership, Scede’s hiring expertise fuelled Yoco’s growth, leading to office expansions in Cape Town and Johannesburg, as well as additional headcount in its newly secured Amsterdam office, strengthening Yoco’s global presence.

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About Yoco

Yoco is a leading South African fintech company dedicated to helping small businesses grow through simple, secure, and affordable payment solutions. Founded in 2015, Yoco provides entrepreneurs with cutting-edge point-of-sale (POS) systems, card machines, and online payment tools, enabling them to accept payments effortlessly.

Yoco is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa. In July 2021, the company raised $83 million in a Series C funding round to scale its offline and online offerings and expand into new markets.

The experience of working with Scede has been incredibly smooth, highly collaborative, and responsive. I would work with Scede again without hesitation, they operate as a true business partner and build strong positive relationships at all levels across the business

Lucy Williams
Director of TA

Key challenges

  • Yoco faced challenges in finding niche technical skills in the South African market, given limited Fintech ecosystem
  • Challenging to find recruiters with advanced sourcing capabilities
  • Limited workforce planning capability when Scede started the engagement
  • Volatility in hiring demands and need for a partner that could scale up fast
  • Need for a partner that fitted with Yoco's culture and values

Solution

  • Embedded team deployed: 2 experienced talent partners embedded within Yoco with experience in sourcing hard-to-fill roles
  • Referral programme: Scede redesigned Yoco's referral scheme, introducing gamification elements, resulting in 56% increase in referrals
  • Data-driven approach:Introduced data reporting and insights, allowing the business to resource plan better to meet their hiring targets
  • Improved workforce planning: Worked closely with senior leadership when assessing headcount planning to introduce level of effort calculations
  • Continuous Improvement: Rolled out mini retrospectives once hiring had concluded to evaluate the success / challenges faced during the process and make improvement for future hires