Head of AI Expansion

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.