Senior People Business Partner

Job description / Role

About the team

The Talent & Culture team at Careem is on a mission to build a workplace that attracts, develops, and retains the best talent in the region. We partner closely with our colleagues across all verticals to co-create people strategies that enable performance, innovation, and growth. As strategic advisors, we are custodians of our values, champions of a high-performance culture, and drivers of impactful employee experiences.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior People Business Partner - Commercial to join our Dubai-based Talent & Culture team. In this individual contributor role, you will serve as a strategic advisor to multiple business leaders across our platform, supporting them with organizational effectiveness, people strategy, and talent development. You will partner closely with centers of excellence (e.g. Talent Acquisition, Rewards, L&D) to deliver people solutions that enable both business and colleague success.

What you’ll do

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to business leaders across assigned verticals/functions
• Translate business needs into impactful people strategies and solutions
• Lead organizational design and workforce planning initiatives
• Partner with leaders and teams to foster a high-performance, feedback-rich culture
• Use data and insights to influence decisions and continuously improve people practices
• Support performance management, talent reviews, and succession planning
• Navigate change management processes and advise on org health
• Collaborate with global People CoEs to deploy relevant programs and policies

What you’ll need

• 8+ years of progressive experience in HR, with at least 5 years as a business partner
• Experience supporting high-growth commercial teams preferred
• Strong understanding of org development, performance management, and talent strategy
• Excellent interpersonal, consulting, and stakeholder management skills
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to operate in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
• Data fluency and ability to draw insights from HR and business metrics
• Bachelor's / Master’s degree in HR, Business, or a related field; HR certification is a plus

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.

About the Company

We are a brand that aims to simplify people's lives by revolutionizing the transportation industry. A brand that strives to inspire everyone it interacts with, and supports every single person who dares to believe. #BeCareem

Careem is the MENA region's leading ride-hailing service and newest Tech Unicorn. With 30% monthly growth, we now operate in 50+ cities across 11 countries and host over 6 million users. With our recent Series D funding success, we are positioned on the cusp of significant scale and well on target to deliver our goal of creating one million jobs in the region by 2018.