Head of AI Expansion

As Head of AI Expansion at Tether, you lead the global adoption of Tether's AI ecosystem, with a focus on QVAC and decentralized, privacy-preserving AI infrastructure. You engage leading enterprises, institutions, and governments globally, helping them deploy AI solutions built around local computing, data sovereignty, privacy, and independence from centralized cloud infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership role combining exceptional commercial and relationship-building capabilities with deep AI knowledge. International travel is required.

What you'll do

• Drive global adoption of QVAC and Tether AI across enterprises, institutions, and governments
• Identify organizations where local, private, decentralized, or sovereign AI provides a strategic advantage
• Match use cases with the needs of identified organizations and build business cases for implementation
• Nurture existing and build new relationships with CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, AI leaders, and government stakeholders
• Personally originate, structure, negotiate, and close strategic AI partnerships and deployments
• Develop partnerships across the AI ecosystem, including compute, hardware, infrastructure, and technology providers
• Monitor the performance of partnerships, proactively identify risks, and design mitigation plans
• Define and execute Tether AI's global go-to-market strategy
• Identify priority markets, industries, and high-value AI use cases
• Co-develop requirements with clients and translate them into deployable solutions together with product and engineering teams
• Build and manage a global pipeline of strategic AI opportunities
• Monitor market, competitive, regulatory, and technological developments
• Build and lead the AI Expansion team globally
• Recruit expansion managers, partnership leads, solution architects, and other key profiles
• Establish KPIs, execution playbooks, and commercial processes
• Work closely with Tether's AI, engineering, product, and regional Expansion teams
• Position Tether as a strategic partner for organizations seeking AI sovereignty, privacy, resilience, and infrastructure independence
• Represent Tether AI in strategic meetings, government engagements, conferences, and industry forums

What you bring

• Deep knowledge of AI and decentralized infrastructure
• Proven ability to move fluidly between technical discussions with AI and engineering teams and strategic conversations with C-level executives and government leaders
• Comfort working across multiple geographies and cultures
• Exceptional English communication skills
• Demonstrated track record in business development, partnerships, and closing strategic deals

Nice to have

• Fluency in at least 3 languages

About Tether

Tether is a fintech leader pioneering digital finance through reserve-backed tokens and blockchain solutions. The company operates across multiple divisions: Tether Finance (home to USDT, the world's most trusted stablecoin), Tether Power (sustainable energy solutions for Bitcoin mining), Tether Data (AI and peer-to-peer infrastructure, including the KEET app for secure data sharing), Tether Education (digital learning for the gig economy), and Tether Evolution (emerging technologies at the intersection of innovation and human potential). Tether operates as a global, remote-first organization.