Head of AI Expansion

Tether Operations Limited

2d•Remote

About The Position

Tether is seeking a highly driven Head of AI Expansion to lead the global adoption of its AI ecosystem, with a focus on QVAC and decentralized, privacy-preserving AI infrastructure. The role engages enterprises, institutions, and governments worldwide to help them deploy AI solutions based on local computing, data sovereignty, privacy, and independence from centralized cloud infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership position combining commercial and relationship-building capabilities with deep AI knowledge. The successful candidate will identify and prioritize opportunities, structure complex projects, close strategic partnerships, monitor partnership success, and build the team needed to scale Tether AI globally. The role requires comfort moving between technical discussions with AI and engineering teams and strategic conversations with senior executives and government leaders, as well as experience working across geographies and cultures. International travel is required.

Requirements

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 a related field.

Responsibilities

Drive global adoption of QVAC and Tether AI across enterprises, institutions, and governments.
Identify organizations that could gain strategic advantage from local, private, decentralized, or sovereign AI.
Match use cases to organizational needs and build business cases for implementation.
Nurture existing relationships and develop 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 with compute, hardware, infrastructure, and technology providers.
Monitor partnership performance, 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.
Work with clients to develop requirements and translate them into deployable solutions 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 global AI Expansion team.
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.