Chief AI Architect

Career Opportunity: Drive Competitive Value from Data at Scale

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. We are led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires.

About the Role

You will be part of our team driving competitive value from data at scale through building AI models to optimize user experiences, decision making, operational efficiencies, and leading the region's AI ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Develop a long-term vision on how we can rethink customer acquisition and engagement strategies, leveraging data in our decision making.
2. 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.
3. Shape and influence data/ML models and instrumentation to optimize the product experience and generate insights on new areas of opportunity and new products.
4. 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.
5. Implement scalable machine learning algorithms that will be used in production on big data.
6. Embark on exploratory data analysis projects to achieve a better understanding of phenomena as well as to discover untapped areas of growth and optimization.
7. Answer complex analytic questions from big data sets to help shape our products and services in a better way.
8. Help define and track the appropriate key metrics for specific projects.
9. Design and run randomized controlled experiments, analyze the resulting data, and communicate results with other teams.

Requirements:

• 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.

What We Offer

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full-time 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 organization dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Flexible work arrangements, including remote work options.
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities.