Head of AI Expansion

About the job

We are seeking a highly driven Head of AI Expansion to lead the global adoption of Tether’s AI ecosystem, with a focus on QVAC and decentralized, privacy-preserving AI infrastructure.

The role will 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.

The ideal candidate can comfortably move between technical discussions with AI and engineering teams and strategic conversations with CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, and government leaders and should be used to work in multiple geographies/ cultures.

International travel is required.

Responsibilities

Business Development & Partnerships

• 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 needs of identified organizations and build business cases for the implementation of the use case
• 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

Market Strategy & Execution

• 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.

Team Leadership

• 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.

Strategic Representation

• 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.

You Have

• 7+ years of experience across AI, enterprise technology, infrastructure, or technology business development.
• Strong knowledge of AI/ML, LLMs, inference, local/edge computing, data infrastructure, and decentralized architectures.
• Proven experience personally originating, structuring, and closing large enterprise technology deals and partnerships.
• Strong relationships with senior decision-makers across enterprises, technology companies, and/or governments.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Experience building and managing high-performing teams.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to operate independently in fast-moving environments.
• Degree in AI, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.