Director Technology Development

About the Role

Ma'aden - Saudi Arabian Mining Company | معادن is seeking a Director, Technology Development to translate the company's technology ambition into measurable business value. This full-time role, based in Riyadh, involves providing enterprise leadership across a diverse portfolio of technology domains, connecting business priorities with specialist expertise, and directing investment and execution towards opportunities that enhance safety, productivity, reliability, growth, and operational performance. The Director will create conditions for technologies to move effectively from discovery and validation into scaled operational deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and execute an integrated Technology Development portfolio, translating enterprise priorities into focused domain strategies, roadmaps, and investments.
• Prioritize opportunities based on business value, strategic relevance, deployment readiness, safety, risk, and scalability, balancing near-term performance with long-term capability.
• Integrate priorities across technology domains to reduce fragmentation, strengthen synergies, and focus specialist capacity on high-value challenges.
• Direct the progression of priority technologies from discovery and validation through deployment, adoption, and scale, with clear outcomes, ownership, and decision points.
• Establish measurable value hypotheses, baselines, and performance measures connecting technology deployment to operational and business outcomes.
• Ensure deployed solutions are embedded into operational workflows and tracked through sustained adoption and value realization.
• Establish a disciplined portfolio operating model covering investment decisions, stage gates, resource allocation, risk, technical assurance, and executive performance reviews.
• Strengthen execution by ensuring priority initiatives have robust business cases, accountable ownership, realistic deployment plans, and operational sponsorship.
• Resolve critical dependencies and competing priorities across functions, assets, and technology domains, redirecting resources as needed to protect delivery and value.
• Lead and develop Chief Specialists and senior subject matter experts, preserving their technical authority while aligning domain priorities and performance to common enterprise outcomes.
• Build a high-performance culture founded on safety, technical rigor, accountability, collaboration, innovation, knowledge transfer, and delivery discipline.
• Strengthen succession and critical technology capability through targeted development, external expertise, and strategic partnerships.
• Align business units, Operations, Engineering, Technology & Innovation, and corporate stakeholders around technology priorities, investment choices, and deployment roadmaps.
• Provide senior leadership with clear insight into portfolio performance, value, risks, and investment trade-offs to strengthen decision-making.
• Shape external technology partnerships that accelerate access to relevant expertise, solutions, and capabilities while protecting Ma’aden’s strategic and operational interests.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required.
• Demonstrated ability to provide enterprise leadership across diverse technology domains.
• Experience in translating technology ambition into measurable business value.
• Proven track record in directing investment and execution towards opportunities that improve safety, productivity, reliability, growth, and operational performance.
• Experience in integrating the work of Chief Specialists and senior subject matter experts.
• Ability to establish clear portfolio priorities and governance.

Indicators of Success

• Technology investments are concentrated on clearly prioritized opportunities with defined business outcomes, sponsorship, and measurable value.
• Priority technologies progress efficiently from discovery and validation into operational deployment, adoption, and scale.
• Deployed technologies deliver sustained improvements in targeted safety, productivity, reliability, cost, growth, or operational performance measures.
• Portfolio governance enables timely investment, continuation, scaling, or stop decisions based on evidence, readiness, risk, and realized value.
• Chief Specialists and senior SMEs operate as aligned enterprise technical authorities with strong succession, knowledge transfer, and capability development.
• Business and technology stakeholders align around integrated roadmaps, clear accountabilities, and transparent portfolio performance.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.