Senior Manager of Ads Sales

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East — making it easy to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Our purpose is simple: to simplify and improve people’s lives and build an awesome organisation that inspires.
Since 2012, Careem has enabled earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of more than 70 million customers, and built a platform where the region’s best talent and entrepreneurs thrive. We operate in 70+ cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

We’re now entering our next chapter — one powered by AI. We’re looking for AI talent: curious problem-solvers who know how to apply AI to build tools, automate workflows, and create real impact. Whether it’s streamlining operations, enhancing customer experience, or reimagining internal systems — we want people who can make Careem work smarter and move faster.

Careem is building the region’s next breakthrough advertising platform and Careem Ads is at the very beginning of that journey. As a Senior Agency Partnerships Manager, you will help shape one of MENA’s most exciting high-growth ad businesses from the ground up. If you’re a hustler, an entrepreneurial thinker, and someone who thrives in ambiguity and 0-to-1 environments, this is your chance to join a renowned regional brand and make your mark.

What You’ll Do
1. Lead Agency Relationships & Drive Revenue
● Manage day-to-day relationships with media agency groups across MENA (Publicis, OMG, MCN, Havas, GroupM, etc.).
● Grow share of wallet for Careem Ads’ full-funnel solutions across non-endemic & endemic verticals.
2. Champion Careem Ads Products
● Represent Careem Ads’ full-funnel formats to agency partners.
● Educate planners, strategists, and investment teams on Careem’s unique first-party data, everything app ecosystem, inventory, and product roadmap.
3. Drive High-Quality Commercial Execution
● Work closely with cross-functional teams: Product, Finance, Creative Ops, and Measurement teams to ensure smooth campaign planning, delivery, and pacing.
● Build structured feedback loops from agencies to improve products, formats, reporting, and measurement.
4. Build from the Ground Up
● Actively contribute to establishing processes, playbooks, pitch narratives, and the operating model for Careem Ads.
● Develop scalable agency engagement programs, education hubs, and go-to-market rituals.

Who You Are
● 5–7+ years of experience working in ad sales, or agency partnership roles (TikTok, Snap, Meta, Amazon, Google, or similar preferred).
● Strong understanding of full-funnel brand planning, programmatic, data-driven marketing, and marketplace ecosystems.
● Hustler mindset, resourceful, proactive, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
● Entrepreneurial, energetic, and excited to help build a new business line inside Careem.
● Strong communicator with excellent relationship management across senior agency stakeholders.

Why Join Us
● Build Careem Ads from the ground up, this is a true 0-to-1 opportunity.
● Work with one of the region’s most loved and trusted brands.
● Massive room to grow as the business scales across UAE, KSA, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and beyond.
● Be part of the founding team shaping the future of advertising in the Middle East.
● A chance to make real impact every idea and execution directly shapes the product and revenue trajectory.

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.