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. You identify and prioritize opportunities, structure complex projects, close strategic partnerships, monitor partnership success, and build the team required to scale Tether AI globally.

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 strategic advantage
• Match use cases with organizational needs 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 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 client requirements with product and engineering teams and translate them into deployable solutions
• 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 AI knowledge and hands-on experience with AI deployments
• Exceptional commercial and relationship-building capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to move comfortably between technical discussions with AI and engineering teams and strategic conversations with C-level executives and government leaders
• Experience working across multiple geographies and cultures
• Excellent English communication skills
• International travel capacity

Nice to have

• Fluency in at least 3 languages

About Tether

Tether is a fintech innovator operating across multiple domains: Tether Finance manages USDT, the world's most trusted stablecoin, and digital asset tokenization services. Tether Power drives sustainable Bitcoin mining with eco-friendly practices. Tether Data advances AI and peer-to-peer technology through solutions like KEET, a secure data-sharing app. Tether Education democratizes digital learning, and Tether Evolution pushes technological boundaries at the intersection of innovation and human potential. The company operates as a global remote team and is a leader in the blockchain and digital finance industry.