Legal Counsel

Job description / Role

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.

Legal Counsel - Fixed Term Contract

Join Careem's dynamic legal team as we expand our business across the MENAP region. This is a fixed-term role of one year, with the potential for renewal based on performance and business needs. You will play a pivotal role in supporting Careem's ambitious growth strategy, ensuring that our operations are both efficient and compliant in an ever-evolving landscape.

What you'll do

- Contract Review and Negotiation: Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements with partners, vendors, landlords, suppliers, and other key business associates. You'll also manage interactions with external counsel when necessary, communicating outcomes effectively to our business teams.
- Legal Advice: Provide expert legal advice and guidance to stakeholders, management, and business units. Your insights will be key to ensuring compliance with local laws and regulations while driving Careem's success.
- Risk Management: Identify and strategize against potential legal risks and liabilities that could impact Careem. Working closely with the team leads to developing proactive strategies that mitigate risks and protect our interests as we continue to grow.
- Corporate Governance: Support corporate governance efforts by advising on documentation for board meetings, corporate filings, and ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures for relevant business units.
- Ethics and Values: Uphold and promote ethical and compliant behaviour in line with Careem's values, ensuring our operations are always above board.

What you'll need

- Minimum of a law degree from a reputable university
- Fluent in English and Arabic (both oral and written)
- Minimum of 4 years of work experience post qualification/admission to bar/law society.
- Strong experience of contract analysis, review and drafting.
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex legal matters to non-legal stakeholders clearly.
- Comfortable in working with shifting priorities, ambiguity and fast-paced environments.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

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.