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.

Careem is looking for a data-driven Senior Reward Specialist to join our Talent Centre of Excellence (CoE). In this role, you’ll be a key contributor to our rewards strategy, helping to build the frameworks and job architectures that power our teams.

If you are an analytical problem-solver who enjoys collaborating with the business to ensure our compensation structures are scalable, equitable, and impactful, we’d love to have you on board.

Key Responsibilities

Rewards Cycle Management: Support the end-to-end execution of annual and mid-year compensation reviews and bonus cycles, ensuring zero-error delivery and high data hygiene.
Job Architecture & Sizing: Apply job evaluation logic and leveling frameworks consistently to ensure internal equity; provide expert guidance on job sizing for new and evolving roles.
Data Visualization & Insights: Transform "real-world" pay data into clear, high-quality documentation and visual dashboards that influence leadership decisions.
Process Optimization: Actively identify blockers in reward workflows and implement solutions to automate or simplify cycle management.
Strategic Collaboration: Partner closely with TA and HRBPs to provide benchmarking insights and offer-positioning support, ensuring alignment with our global reward strategy.
Organizational Design: Contribute to the development of job families and grading structures that anticipate future business needs and organizational scaling.

Qualifications & Skills

Experience: 3–6 years of experience in Rewards, Compensation, or HR Analytics, with a strong grasp of Job Evaluation methodologies (e.g., Mercer or Hay).
Technical Proficiency: Advanced skills in Google Sheets/Excel, Looker Studio/PowerBI for complex data modeling, simulation, and trend analysis.
Effective Communication: Ability to structure thoughts clearly and produce high-quality summaries that make complex reward topics easy for others to understand.
Action-Oriented: A proactive self-starter who moves decisively on priorities and takes initiative without needing constant direction.
Collaborative Mindset: Proven ability to build cross-functional alignment and share information openly to discourage "silo" behavior.

What will make you stand out

The Architect: You don't just apply leveling; you anticipate organization-wide implications and proactively advise leaders on future-proofing their structures.
The Optimizer: You go beyond executing cycles—you automate them to remove friction for everyone involved.
The Influencer: You use your top-tier communication and documentation skills to change decisions and align stakeholders behind a unified reward strategy.

What we’ll provide you

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:

Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.

As outlined in Careem’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate based on any protected group status under any applicable law.

The collection of demographic information is for internal purposes only i.e. equal employment opportunity monitoring as well as diversity initiatives.

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Senior Rewards Specialist