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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.\nJob Title: Director, Technology Development\nReporting To: VP, Technology Enablement\nBusiness Unit / Function: Technology & Innovation\nDepartment: Technology Enablement\nGrade: M13W\nWhy This Role MattersThe 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.\nThe 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.\nThrough 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.\nWhat You Will DeliverTechnology Strategy & Portfolio DirectionShape and execute an integrated Technology Development portfolio that translates enterprise priorities into focused domain strategies, roadmaps and investments.\nPrioritize opportunities against business value, strategic relevance, deployment readiness, safety, risk and scalability, balancing near-term performance with longer-term capability.\nIntegrate priorities across technology domains to reduce fragmentation, strengthen synergies and focus specialist capacity on Ma’aden’s highest-value challenges.\nDeployment & Value RealizationDirect the progression of priority technologies from discovery and validation through deployment, adoption and scale, with clear outcomes, ownership and decision points.\nEstablish measurable value hypotheses, baselines and performance measures that connect technology deployment to operational and business outcomes.\nEnsure deployed solutions are embedded into operational workflows and tracked through sustained adoption and value realization.\nPortfolio Governance & ExecutionEstablish a disciplined portfolio operating model covering investment decisions, stage gates, resource allocation, risk, technical assurance and executive performance reviews.\nStrengthen execution by ensuring priority initiatives have robust business cases, accountable ownership, realistic deployment plans and operational sponsorship.\nResolve critical dependencies and competing priorities across functions, assets and technology domains, redirecting resources where needed to protect delivery and value.\nTechnical & People LeadershipLead and develop Chief Specialists and senior subject matter experts, preserving their technical authority while aligning domain priorities and performance to common enterprise outcomes.\nBuild a high-performance culture founded on safety, technical rigor, accountability, collaboration, innovation, knowledge transfer and delivery discipline.\nStrengthen succession and critical technology capability through targeted development, external expertise and strategic partnerships.\nEnterprise Alignment & InfluenceAlign business units, Operations, Engineering, Technology & Innovation and corporate stakeholders around technology priorities, investment choices and deployment roadmaps.\nProvide senior leadership with clear insight into portfolio performance, value, risks and investment trade-offs to strengthen decision-making.\nShape external technology partnerships that accelerate access to relevant expertise, solutions and capabilities while protecting Ma’aden’s strategic and operational interests.\nWhat Success Looks LikeTechnology investments are concentrated on clearly prioritized opportunities with defined business outcomes, sponsorship and measurable value.\nPriority technologies progress efficiently from discovery and validation into operational deployment, adoption and scale.\nDeployed technologies deliver sustained improvements in targeted safety, productivity, reliability, cost, growth or operational performance measures.\nPortfolio governance enables timely investment, continuation, scaling or stop decisions based on evidence, readiness, risk and realized value.\nChief Specialists and senior SMEs operate as aligned enterprise technical authorities with strong succession, knowledge transfer and capability development.\nBusiness and technology stakeholders align around integrated roadmaps, clear accountabilities and transparent portfolio performance.\nMinimum 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