Director, Technology Development

Maaden, established in 1997, is one of the fastest-growing mining companies in the world and the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company in the Middle East. We are leading the development of the mining industry to become the third pillar of Saudi Arabia’s economy by building a world-class, unique, and fully integrated mining value chain. We are pleased to share an exciting opportunity for the below mentioned position. This role offers a chance to contribute to our ambitious growth and play a key part in shaping the future of mining in the Kingdom. Job Title: Director, Technology Development Reporting To: VP, Technology Enablement Business Unit / Function: Technology & Innovation Department: Technology Enablement Grade: M13W Why This Role Matters The Director, Technology Development turns Ma’aden’s technology ambition into measurable business value. The role provides enterprise leadership across a diverse portfolio of technology domains, connecting business priorities with specialist expertise and directing investment and execution toward the opportunities with the greatest potential to improve safety, productivity, reliability, growth and operational performance. The role creates the conditions for technologies to move effectively 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, the role strengthens Ma’aden’s ability to deploy technology at scale while building the specialist capability required for future growth and operational excellence. What You Will Deliver Technology Strategy & Portfolio Direction - Shape and execute an integrated Technology Development portfolio that translates enterprise priorities into focused domain strategies, roadmaps and investments. - Prioritize opportunities against 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. Deployment & Value Realization - 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 that connect technology deployment to operational and business outcomes. - Ensure deployed solutions are embedded into operational workflows and tracked through sustained adoption and value realization. Portfolio Governance & Execution - 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 where needed to protect delivery and value. Technical & People Leadership - 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. Enterprise Alignment & Influence - 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. What Success Looks Like - 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

Not explicitly separated as a formal Requirements/Qualifications section in the posting. The role implies senior leadership, portfolio management, and technical leadership expectations, but no bullet-pointed hard requirements are listed.

Direct the Technology Development portfolio; shape and execute domain strategies, roadmaps, and investments; prioritize opportunities; integrate priorities across technology domains; direct progression of priority technologies from discovery to deployment and value realization; establish value hypotheses and performance measures; ensure deployed solutions are embedded in operations; establish a disciplined portfolio operating model; ensure robust business cases and deployment plans; lead Chief Specialists and senior SMEs; build a high-performance safety- and delivery-focused culture; align stakeholders and shape external technology partnerships; provide senior leadership with portfolio insights.