AI Program Lead

The Company

RightShip is the worlds 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 support global initiatives and action influencing practical and impactful change enabling win-win for business and the environment.

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What we offer

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 are passionate about maritime efficiency safety and sustainability practices.

We offer generous base salary is competitive we support employee wellbeing and provide our employees with a Healthy Living Allowance and our annual incentive scheme is 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 youre working with us.

What makes RightShip a great place to work at:

RightShip 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 strongeras individuals as communities and as an organization.

Dont meet every single requirement of this role Still apply!Research tells usthat that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At RightShip we believe that the right hire is someone who makes an addition to our culture rather than someone who fits in and conforms to our status quo. We want to add team memberswho not only valueRightShipstandards and workplace culturebut also bring an aspect of diversity that positively contributestoour work environment. If you are excited about this role or about our company in general we would love to hear from you!

RightShip 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.

KeyResponsibilities

AI Strategy&Program Leadership

• Collaborate with product leadership to define the AI program vision success metrics and prioritised roadmap.
• Identify high-value AI opportunities across the RightShip 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.

Cross-Functional Product & Delivery Leadership

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

Technical Guidance & AITeamLeadership

• 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).

Execution & Delivery Management

• 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.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Enablement

• Work closely with SMEs to transform domain knowledge into model-ready guidance evaluation rubrics and test scenarios.
• Communicate AI program outcomes and updates to senior leadership ensuring clarity of progress risks and value delivery.
• Enable internal adoption of new AI features including training for product commercial and operations teams.

Innovation Culture & Continuous Improvement

• Lead structured AI discovery processes that help teams validate ideas quickly and safely.
• Promote a culture of experimentation learning and continuous improvement across squads.
• Track industry trends in language models multimodal AI evaluation tooling and model optimization relevant to RightShip.

Qualifications Skills & Experience

• 10 years in software engineering or data science including 3 years building and deploying AI/ML solutions.
• 4 years leading or managing AI engineers or technical teams.
• Strong experience collaborating with Engineering and Data teams on architecture data pipelines deployment and monitoring.
• Strong practical understanding of LLMs embeddings supervised ML RAG and evaluation methods.
• Familiarity withMLOps: model deployment monitoring guardrails CI/CD for ML and data workflows.
• Ability to review and challenge AI designs experiments and metrics with technical credibility.
• Excellent communicator able to present influence and gain buy-in from senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to align negotiate and manage expectations across cross-functional teams.
• Strong leadership in coaching mentoring and growing AI talent.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Science AI/ML or related technical field.
• Masters degree is beneficial but not required.

RightShip is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity enables access and promotes inclusion in our workplace. You must have the right to live and work in this locationto apply for this job.