Director Technology Development

About the Role

Ma’aden is seeking a Director, Technology Development to transform the company's technology ambitions into measurable business value. This full-time position is based in Riyadh and involves providing enterprise leadership across a diverse portfolio of technology domains.

Role Purpose and Impact

The Director, Technology Development connects business priorities with specialist expertise, directing investment and execution toward opportunities that enhance safety, productivity, reliability, growth, and operational performance. The role is critical in facilitating the effective transition of technologies from discovery and validation into scaled operational deployment. It integrates the work of Chief Specialists and senior subject matter experts, establishes clear portfolio priorities and governance, and ensures technology solutions are operationally ready, adopted, and sustained. Through disciplined prioritization, executive decision-making, and strong technical leadership, this role strengthens Ma’aden’s capability to deploy technology at scale while building specialist expertise for future growth and operational excellence.

Key Duties

• Shape and execute an integrated Technology Development portfolio that translates 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 longer-term capability.
• Integrate priorities across technology domains to reduce fragmentation, strengthen synergies, and focus specialist capacity on Ma’aden’s highest-value challenges.

Core Responsibilities

• Direct the progression of priority technologies from discovery and validation through deployment, adoption, and scale, ensuring clear outcomes, ownership, and decision points.
• Establish measurable value hypotheses, baselines, and performance measures that link technology deployment to operational and business outcomes.
• Ensure deployed solutions are embedded into operational workflows and tracked through sustained adoption and value realization.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, requiring a commitment to driving technological advancement within a dynamic operational environment.