Director of Public Policy

2 weeks ago

الرياض, Saudi Arabia Careem Full time

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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 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.

**About the team**

Careem Rides is a leading technology platform for the greater Middle East and a pioneer of the region’s ride-hailing economy. Careem’s mission is to simplify and improve the lives of people and build a lasting institution that inspires.

**About the role**

Our ambition is to be globally recognized as the most valued and trusted digital platform for our region - partnering with governments to build the digital backbone for our markets and citizens.

Careem Rides is looking to recruit a Director of Public Policy to drive the Company’s corporate affairs and public policy agenda and build sustainable long-term regulatory frameworks for our businesses, customers, Captains and government partners across the Middle East. This is a senior role at the region’s largest technology company and platform.

The role is Riyadh/Dubai based but will require frequent travel and reports into the Director, Public Policy Middle East and Africa at Uber. The Director of Public Policy will also work closely with the Managing Directors and General Managers that drive business growth, as well as colleagues across our markets.

**What you'll do**
- Planning and executing all aspects of government, policy and regulatory engagement strategies and corporate affairs campaigns across Careem’s Rides businesses
- Engaging at senior levels with a diverse set of government and non-government based stakeholders in each market to advocate for and implement win-win regulatory outcomes for the Company and its government partners.
- Being one of the primary interfaces for all senior level government interactions and the Company’s lead negotiator and/or interlocutor with sector regulators, technology and investment focused government entities, key ministries such as Transportation, Labour, and Finance.
- Identifying, mapping, and executing on strategies to engage with non-government stakeholders (including media) for Careem’s core businesses across all markets.
- Prioritisation of public policy objectives, risk, and opportunities across Careem’s markets and businesses and maintaining and ensuring allocation of appropriate public policy resources in line with such prioritisation.
- Identifying and executing on strategic partnerships (government and non-government) that deliver strategic value to Careem.
- Driving internal communications and the creation of case studies and other content to demonstrate the scope of work of the function within the company.

**What you'll need**

He/she will have leadership experience in the Middle East (predominantly Saudi Arabia/ UAE); with a regulatory, government, public affairs, legal, or management consulting background with outstanding attention to detail in terms of reading, writing and content creation; strong diplomatic and advocacy skills with a firm alignment with our core values: being bold, focused, agile and collaborative.

Additional qualifications include:

- 8-10 years of Middle East experience in a progressive government environment, having worked in a private company in a corporate affairs, policy, or regulatory capacity across multiple jurisdictions, having worked in a top law firm or management consultancy, a communications or public affairs environment, a multilateral development agency, or a combination of the above.
- Have managed a public policy, regulatory, and communications team across multiple geographies.
- Highly analytical ability with respect to reviewing, developing and delivering outstanding policy content, white papers; and (ii) developing quantitative and economic analysis to justify Careem’s policy positions.
- Arabic speaker.

**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 hom

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