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

• Exceptional commercial and relationship-building capabilities with deep AI knowledge.
• Ability to move comfortably between technical discussions with AI and engineering teams and strategic conversations with CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, and government leaders.
• Experience working across multiple geographies and cultures.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Nice to have

• Fluency in at least 3 languages.

About Tether

Tether is a global fintech leader pioneering reserve-backed tokens across blockchains. The company operates multiple divisions: Tether Finance (USDT stablecoin and digital asset tokenization), Tether Power (sustainable Bitcoin mining with eco-friendly energy solutions), Tether Data (AI infrastructure and peer-to-peer technology including KEET for secure data sharing), Tether Education (digital learning for the gig economy), and Tether Evolution (emerging technology innovation). Tether operates a global remote team and is established as a leader in the digital finance industry.