[ref. c10243022] Associate Director - Visual Design
Job description / Role
Employment: Full Time
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 70 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 role
As the principal visual designer of a new design function at Careem, you'll shape and lead the visual design practice across all Careem verticals - from ride-hailing and food to fintech, crafting a bold, modern visual identity that adds delight and emotional depth to every customer interaction.
What you'll do- Lead the creation of Careem's visual language: from typography and iconography to motion and illustration systems.
- Define scalable frameworks that help product teams easily adopt and apply our visual language.
- Partner closely with product, brand, and marketing to ensure a unified, cross-platform visual identity.
- Explore and integrate AI-powered tools and workflows to accelerate design impact.
- Mentor a growing team of senior visual and motion designers.
- Push the craft forward - regularly conduct audits, propose experiments, and evolve the design language to remain fresh and future-ready.
- 7-10 years of experience in visual design, with at least 3 years in a lead or principal role.
- Proven ability to build and scale visual systems across product ecosystems.
- A striking portfolio that shows both finesse in craft and thinking in systems.
- Deep understanding of visual storytelling, motion design, and cross-platform consistency.
- Experience working with or alongside AI tools like Midjourney, Runway, and GPT-based workflows.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-growth environments with distributed teams.
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 four days a week in office and one 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 two office days a week and three 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.
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