AI Program Lead

Right Ship is the world’s biggest third party maritime due diligence organization, providing expertise in global safety, sustainability and social responsibility best practices.

We bring together years of industry expertise with the output from analytics and large data sets to provide our safety and environmental scoring systems, recommendations and consultancy services.

Using leading data and technology, we aim to set new benchmarks in environmental protection. We support global initiatives and action influencing practical and impactful change, enabling “win‑win” for business and the environment.

We offer a place where you know you are contributing to an organization who are constantly working to ensure ships are safe as possible so that crew and cargo are protected. We are passionate about maritime efficiency, safety and sustainability practices. We offer generous rewards. Our base salary is competitive, we support employee wellbeing and provide our employees with a Healthy Living Allowance and our annual incentive scheme is awesome.

We have some great talent who are happy to share their experience and skills to help you on your way and we are committed to professional development to make sure your career keeps growing while you’re working with us.

Right Ship is an equal opportunity employer, and we champion diversity. Our teams are composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and generations. We believe that a diversity of experiences makes us stronger—as individuals, as communities and as an organization.

Right Ship is accelerating its use of AI across our platform and products. As we expand our AI capabilities, we are seeking an experienced AI Program Lead to drive strategic AI initiatives, guide experimentation, and partner closely with Product, Engineering, and SME functions.

This role is ideal for someone with strong hands‑on AI expertise, proven experience delivering AI solutions into production, and the ability to orchestrate cross‑functional work that turns ideas into customer‑facing innovation. You will be responsible for shaping our AI program roadmap, validating opportunities, enabling teams, and ensuring delivery of high‑impact AI improvements across the product suite.

• Collaborate with product leadership to define the AI program vision, success metrics, and prioritised roadmap.
• Identify high‑value AI opportunities across the Right Ship platform, assessing feasibility, complexity, and impact.
• Manage the end‑to‑end lifecycle of AI initiatives, from discovery and experimentation through delivery and scaling.
• Coordinate cross‑functional execution involving AI engineers, data scientists, product managers, SMEs, and design.
• Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and responsible AI.

• Partner with Product Managers from discovery through delivery, ensuring AI solutions align with real customer needs.
• Actively drive AI integration into Right Ship products, ensuring solution fit, user impact, and seamless experience.
• Translate business problems into clear AI opportunities, with structured evaluation, success metrics, and value hypotheses.

• Lead and mentor a team of AI engineers and specialists, guiding experimentation, prioritisation, and technical direction.
• Establish strong engineering practices for rapid prototyping, model evaluation, and iteration.
• Support capability development, knowledge sharing, and continuous upskilling within the AI team.
• Drive hands‑on experimentation when required (prototyping, prompt engineering, testing RAG patterns, evaluating fine‑tuning opportunities).

• Establish repeatable processes for experiment tracking, model reviews, and deployment checkpoints.
• Facilitate alignment between Product, Engineering, and AI teams to ensure timely and coherent delivery.
• Guide the design of human‑in‑the‑loop workflows, annotation needs, and model feedback loops.