Who We Are

Yoco was founded in 2015, and now processes over US$2 billion annually. We’re the payments provider for over 200 000 self-employed, and opening commerce for all. We’re breaking down barriers and unlocking economic opportunities that enable people to thrive.

We have over 350 team members globally, operating across international markets, all with a bias for boldness, and a passion for simple, progressive solutions. We believe in uniting different people to solve hard problems together.

Our mission of making society more equal takes a variety of people, with different backgrounds and points of view, so we can keep building solutions that work for and include everyone.

We’re growing fast. With growth comes compelling challenges, which means that if you’re an ambitious problem-solver with big ideas you will be challenged, stimulated and will thrive at Yoco. You have a passion for doing good. You’re bright and grounded, experimental and courageous.

We don’t stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, we challenge ourselves and each other. We’re constantly evolving — and we’re doing it fast.

Grow With Us. 

About the Role

Yoco is looking for an experienced Head of Performance Marketing who will act as a key member of the Commercial Leadership Team, reporting to the VP Commercial. In this role you will be responsible for the development and leadership of the strategic plan, vision and execution of our global digital channels and acquisition funnel. This includes full accountability for digital acquisition (paid and organic), website and e-commerce, CRM, personalisation, creative, testing, marketing, and digital technology. Your team will be accountable for all digital acquisition, sales funnel and customer journey conversion metrics.

Yoco has an ambitious and exciting product roadmap in the years ahead, and in this role you and your team will be accountable with developing and growing channels that are a fit for our various products, and growth loops that ensure low customer acquisition costs and profitable compounding balanced growth.

What You Will Be Doing

As Head of Performance Marketing you will lead, manage and develop a team dedicated to growing our ever evolving performance marketing roadmap across the full customer journey, ensuring a seamless experience for our prospects from first touchpoint to sale, retention and monetisation. You will be responsible for:

• Leading and setting the agenda for an ambitious and growing team, placing high priority on people development and career growth

• Being an entrepreneurial and visionary growth leader, sparking ideas around new initiatives/experiments/pilots and process improvements that will accelerate growth

• Evolving our approach to attracting, acquiring, growing and retaining merchants based on a strong understanding of the user journey

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams such as brand marketing, product teams and others to ensure our paid and owned channels are cohesive, connected and optimised

• Understanding what's happening within our broader business and how our marketing efforts contribute to this, socialising insights to help further shape strategy

• Helping to evolve our thinking around performance indicators and benchmarks, working with our Data Analytics team to improve the fidelity and value of our performance reporting

• Taking full responsibility of overseeing paid media i.e. TV, radio, outdoor and digital marketing - Facebook & Instagram Ads, Google Display Ads, Google Search Ads, Search engine optimization (SEO), and referral marketing

• Managing media mix strategy and budget allocation of a >$5m annual media budget that drives balanced growth and maximises paybacks and return of investment per customer

• Work in close collaboration with regional teams and marketing partners - including but not limited to Google, Meta, and Salesforce.

About You

• 15+ years of growth or performance marketing experience in a high-growth environment, with a strong preference for experience in b2c start-ups or scale-ups and a proven track record.

• Management of large budgets and achievement of stretch growth targets.

• People management experience and a passion for developing diverse, motivated and high-performing teams.

• An understanding of how to use platform-specific creative to optimise different channels.

• Experience with marketing tactics and data, from search to paid social to data-driven display advertising. Knowledge of other performance marketing and lead generation channels such as affiliate marketing, email and video.

• Proficiency with quantitative and data visualisation tools (e.g. Excel, Looker, Tableau, etc.) to understand and share how performance marketing contributes to business growth.

• Experience working with marketing measurement methods and tools, including multi-touch attribution, incrementality testing, A/B testing, and beyond.

• Excellence in project management. There will be many concurrent and high velocity work streams. Proactive management and communication.

• Experience with landing page and broader website content testing. Website analytics know-how is also helpful.

• Sharp, analytical mind and an entrepreneurial spirit.

The People We’re Looking For

We’re looking for people who want to grow. And as Yoco grows we hope they stay with us, long term

Building things that make society more equal is a daunting task. And it’s not for everyone. We never stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, we challenge ourselves and teammates. We start over, we constantly evolve — and we do it fast. We know that it’s just the right kind of meaningful madness for our kind of visionary human.

So, who are you? You’re someone who resonates with our mission, but also our values, when it comes to how we work.

You’re a curious problem-solver with a passion for doing good. You’re bright and grounded, experimental and bold. You play open cards and get stuck in. You’re not afraid of change. You close the loop.

At Yoco, we love to laugh, cherish each other’s quirks, and be authentic.

Find out more about who we are here.

Please note that this is a remote based position and we are open to applications from candidates based in South Africa, Netherlands, Egypt, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates and the UK.

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply and ask that you please send your application in English and help us reduce unconscious bias by leaving out your picture, age, address, and other unnecessary information in your CV.