Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East — making it easy to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Our purpose is simple: to simplify and improve people’s lives and build an awesome organisation that inspires.
Since 2012, Careem has enabled earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of more than 70 million customers, and built a platform where the region’s best talent and entrepreneurs thrive. We operate in 70+ cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.
We’re now entering our next chapter — one powered by AI. We’re looking for AI talent: curious problem-solvers who know how to apply AI to build tools, automate workflows, and create real impact. Whether it’s streamlining operations, enhancing customer experience, or reimagining internal systems — we want people who can make Careem work smarter and move faster.
What you'll do:
- Lead Product Analytics team across multiple domains within the EA ecosystem, distributed across the globe collaborating with cross-functional teams on multiple subdomains.
- Develop strategy to leverage data analysis and visualization as a strategic competitive advantage to Careem.
- Growing and coaching the analysts to be storytellers of data, giving it a voice and a high signal actionable narrative.
- Collaborate and influence leadership to allow the Product Analytics team’s work to directly impact the organization’s strategy.
- Partner with senior business leaders and partners to manage project intake, pipeline, prioritize, and manage staffing against key initiatives.
- Execute on Product strategy, planning and execution through actionable data insights and data driven concepts.
- Define, instrument, and maintain new and existing business critical metrics, using SQL queries and beyond.
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to the data engineering team; collaborate on building / maintaining ETLs, pipelines and automations to ensure we can understand and act on business performance accurately, scalably, with low latency, and minimal manual upkeep.
- Run experiments and develop dashboards and data visualizations to communicate results to leadership. Provide rigorous technical mentorship to the team.
- Ensure data quality by monitoring performance, diagnosing issues, and creating solutions.
- Answer complex business questions via ad-hoc SQL queries to enable business and product owners to make critical decisions.
What you'll need:
- Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline (Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Data Science, Mathematics).
- 10+ years of professional full-time experience in analytics roles, preferably in tech.
- 5+ years of experience directly managing analytical teams.
- Strong command of SQL, Python and R, and experience working with large datasets.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment with changing priorities.
- Experience building intuitive and impactful dashboards and data visualizations that drive business decisions (using Tableau, Power BI, etc.)
- Project management skills- ability to drive projects end-to-end.
- Communication and stakeholder management skills - Ability to build consensus by clearly communicating and presenting information.
- Teamwork - You care about your team and are passionate about helping them succeed, you love going heads down in SQL, but can also take a step back and understand the big picture.
- Strong experience in setting up, managing, and growing an analytics team.
- Strong track record in delivering high impact from data through leading multiple cross-functional projects.
- Track record of shipping new products and iterating on them over time.
- Track record of attracting and retaining top talent.
- Experience instilling a culture of ownership, collaboration, and results.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, critical thinking, and judgement.
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What We Do
Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million ride-hailing and delivery Captains, simplified the lives of over 50 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan. In 2019, Careem was acquired by Uber Technologies, Inc. In April 2023 we welcomed the global technology investor e& (formerly Etisalat) as a partner, following their investment in the Careem Everything App.
