Director Technology Development

About the Role

Maaden is seeking a Director, Technology Development to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is central to translating Maaden's technology ambitions into measurable business value. The Director will provide enterprise leadership across a diverse portfolio of technology domains, connecting business priorities with specialist expertise and directing investment towards opportunities that enhance safety, productivity, reliability, growth, and operational performance.

Role Purpose and Impact

The Director, Technology Development is responsible for creating the conditions necessary for technologies to progress effectively from discovery and validation into scaled operational deployment. This involves integrating the work of Chief Specialists and senior subject matter experts, establishing clear portfolio priorities and governance, and ensuring technology solutions are operationally ready, adopted, and sustained. Through disciplined prioritization and strong technical leadership, the role strengthens Maaden’s ability to deploy technology at scale and builds specialist capabilities for future growth and operational excellence.

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 and ownership.
• 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 for 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.
• Lead and develop Chief Specialists and senior subject matter experts, aligning domain priorities and performance to 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 and deployment roadmaps.
• Provide senior leadership with clear insight into portfolio performance, value, risks, and investment trade-offs.
• Shape external technology partnerships that accelerate access to relevant expertise, solutions, and capabilities.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required for this role.

Measures of Success

• Technology investments are concentrated on prioritized opportunities with defined business outcomes 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.
• 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 Environment

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