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 worldwide, 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 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 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 with clients their requirements 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 technology and infrastructure
• Exceptional commercial and relationship-building capabilities
• Ability to comfortably move 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
• Willingness to travel internationally

Nice to have

• Fluency in at least 3 languages

About Tether

Tether is a fintech company pioneering digital finance through reserve-backed tokens. It operates Tether Finance (featuring USDT, the world's most trusted stablecoin), Tether Power (energy and Bitcoin mining solutions), Tether Data (AI and peer-to-peer technology infrastructure including KEET), Tether Education (digital learning), and Tether Evolution (advancing technology and human potential). The company operates a global remote team across all time zones.