The Company
RightShip is the maritime industry's leading safety and risk intelligence platform. We exist to advance the vision of a Zero Harm maritime industry by enabling better safety decisions across the ecosystem.
By combining trusted standards, AI-native technology, rich maritime data and industry expertise, RightShip transforms complex safety and operational risk into intelligence our customers can act on with confidence.
More than 1,000 organisations worldwide rely on RightShip to strengthen safety, improve resilience, simplify compliance and raise standards across global shipping. As RightShip evolves into a scalable intelligence platform, we continue to connect the global supply chain around a shared ambition: safer people, safer vessels and a safer, more sustainable industry.
To find out more visit RightShip.com.
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 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.
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 stronger—as individuals, as communities and as an organization.
Don’t meet every single requirement of this role? Still apply! Research tells us that 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 members who not only value RightShip standards and workplace culture, but also bring an aspect of diversity that positively contributes to our work environment. If you are excited about this role, or about our company in general, we would love to hear from you!
The Role
We are looking for a Design Systems Owner (Idea-to-Code) to shape and mature the DS that underpins RightShip's platform — and to reinvent how that system moves from idea to working code.
A great system is the hygiene base of this role: components, tokens, colour, typography, patterns, nesting, responsiveness — the tools our product designers rely on daily. But your work on those won't stop in Figma. The real mandate is the idea-to-code workstream: getting the system into the codebase, so AI can use it to generate prototypes during Discovery, and so that design delivers working Angular front-end to engineering rather than specs and handover.
You own the DS and what good UX looks like; you partner with our head of front-end engineering, crafting the right solution together. Together you blur the line between design and engineering — A design problem is an engineering problem, and vice versa.
This is a senior individual contributor role with impact to all squads. There's no off-theshelf answer to what we're doing, so this role is part R&D for design and process – finding out what works, then refining and iterating constantly. If that ambiguity excites you, this is your role.
In short: we need a "systemic tinkerer" with strong design craft, comfortable in code, energised by making the whole team faster — from Discovery with PMs and customers, to front-end creation with engineering.
What You'll Do
The design system (the foundation)
• Define and evolve the system across tokens, components, patterns, nesting, responsiveness, and interaction standards in collaboration with our product designers in Singapore and London
• Design scalable components for data-dense, workflow-heavy applications — fit for everything our designers build, from data display, lists and inputs to conversational, AI-driven, and human-in-the-loop interfaces
• Audit our products to surface real use cases and patterns, and turn them into reusable definitions
Idea-to-code (the differentiator)
• Partner with engineering to bring the system into code (Angular), keeping Figma and code in tight parity — contributing and co-crafting, not handing over
• Make components easy to generate, nest, and reuse for both rapid prototyping and production
• Establish the system so AI can consume it to prototype during Discovery, moving design's output toward working front-end and shrinking the gap between intent and implementation
Productivity, AI & ways of working
• Treat the workflow itself as a product: measure it, iterate on it, make us measurably faster
• Continuously screen and trial new AI tools — the capabilities move fast and we intend to be at the frontier
• Actively challenge and upend the traditional design-to-engineering process; this role is at the forefront of reinventing it
Governance & enablement
• Act as the authority on design and UX decisions within the system, and resolve inconsistencies across the platform
• Set and uphold standards for correct usage and upkeep
• Advise product designers with clear rationale that aligns teams
What We're Looking For
Craft & systems thinking
• A portfolio showing strong design-systems craft and work with real adoption
• Deep attention to quality — you know the difference between "it works" and "it feels right," and care about the second
• You see the patterns beneath the surface and build for scale
Code & idea-to-code
• Comfortable in code and engaging engineers technically — you don't have to be a career engineer, but you can read what they code, not just specify
• Understanding of front-end development and component-based architecture (Angular a strong plus)
• A genuine desire to work as one team with engineering rather than across a handover
AI-native ways of working
• AI is core to how you work — a large share of your day runs through it
• Real curiosity and an experimental streak: getting performance out of AI is daily tinkering and rabbit holes, and you enjoy that without losing sight of the goal
• Energised by exploring new tools and upending established process
Ownership & product sense
• High ownership and a first-principles, entrepreneurial mindset — you make ambiguity concrete by prototyping, not documenting
• At home in an exploratory role where the answer isn't known yet
• Strong product sense; comfortable operating PM-adjacent as the boundary blurs
• You drive outcomes without formal authority and see things through
Background
• B2B SaaS experience, ideally data-rich and workflow-heavy products
• Evidence of improving efficiency, consistency, or scalability through systemic thinking
• Maritime experience is not required — you'll learn the domain here; curiosity about a complex, high-stakes industry is what matters
• Side projects are a strong positive signal
Success in Role
• A design system excellent in both Figma and code, with strong, correct adoption
• Reduced time from idea to production-ready, code-backed design
• Faster Discovery prototyping and front-end delivery
• A tighter design–engineering partnership, with fewer handoffs and less rework
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 location to apply for this job.
