About the team

The Design team at Careem crafts user experiences that are simple, intuitive, and delightful. As part of our interdisciplinary group of designers, researchers, writers, and brand experts, you will play a crucial role in shaping how millions of users across the region engage with the Careem app. The team is now building an in-house content marketing team to support copy needs across all verticals, reducing reliance on external vendors and Studio X.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced and culturally tuned Senior Copywriter (Arabic) to join our Product Design team. This role is essential in meeting the growing demand for localized Arabic content across our platforms. You’ll help write compelling Arabic copy for digital experiences and campaigns—ensuring that our tone, clarity, and impact resonate in Arabic-speaking markets.

What you'll do:

• Write engaging Arabic UX and marketing copy for notifications, campaigns, and product surfaces
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure accurate and timely translations of content requests
• Adapt Careem’s tone of voice for Arabic, maintaining clarity and cultural relevance
• Contribute to content operations by reviewing Arabic content at scale
• Assist with localizing push notes and CRM content with appropriate tone and message fit

What we're looking for:

• 2–4 years of experience writing Arabic content for apps, with strong preference for Q-commerce or e-commerce backgrounds
• Native Arabic fluency and excellent command of English
• Portfolio showing app-related content, push notes, and CRM copy
• Ability to work in fast-paced environments with rapid turnaround needs
• Experience with CRM platforms, push notifications, and banner content
• Nice-to-have: Familiarity with Figma or design collaboration tools

About the team

The Careem Data Science team’s mission is to drive competitive value from data at scale through building AI models to optimize user experiences, decision making, operational efficiencies, and lead the region’s AI ecosystem. As one of the leaders in this team, you will be at the forefront of fulfilling this mission. You will be working with and leading the top data science talent of the region, leveraging AI to solve the region’s day-to-day problems, through state-of-the-art machine learning, optimization, deep learning, and RL models, that are deployed on top of our own in-house AI platform, serving users in real-time.

What you'll do

• Build a long-term vision on how we can rethink our customer acquisition and engagement strategies, leveraging data in our decision making.
• Drive exploratory analysis to understand the ecosystem, user behavior, identify new levers to help move metrics, and build models of user behaviors for analysis and product enhancements.
• Shape and influence data/ML models and instrumentation to optimize the product experience and generate insights on new areas of opportunity and new products.
• Provide product leadership by sharing data-based recommendations to communicate state of business, root cause of change in metrics, and experimentation results influencing product and business decisions
• Implement scalable machine learning algorithms that will be used in production on big data.
• Embark on exploratory data analysis projects to achievea  better understanding of phenomena as well as to discover untapped areas of growth and optimization. 
• Answer complex analytic questions from big data sets to help Careem shape its products and services in a better way.
• Help define and track the appropriate key metrics for specific projects. 
• Design and run randomized controlled experiments, analyze the resulting data, and communicate results with other teams.
• You will always challenge the status quo and continually investigate new data processing technologies and seek to ensure that we follow the industry best practices.

What you'll need

• Experience in data mining, predictive modeling, time series analysis, machine learning, Big Data methodologies, transformation and cleaning of both structured and unstructured data.
• Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline such as Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or Computer Science.
• Strong problem solving and coding skills.
• Solid knowledge of and experience with marketplace problems in ride hailing and delivery services. 
• Solid knowledge of AB testing, classic ML and DL
• Solid understanding of recommendations, learning to rank, uplift modeling and matching problems. 
• Fluency in English along with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proficiency and demonstrated experience in: Python, SQL, Spark, Hive.
• Demonstrated experience with database technologies (e.g. Hadoop, BigQuery, Amazon EMR, Hive, Oracle, SAP, DB2, Teradata, MS SQL Server, MySQL).
• Demonstrated experience with business intelligence and visualization tools (Tableau, MicroStrategy, ChartIO, Qlik) along with geospatial data processing skills is a plus.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies.