Head of AI Expansion

• 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 organizational needs and build implementation business cases
• Nurture existing and build new relationships with CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, AI leaders, and government stakeholders
• Originate, structure, negotiate, and close strategic AI partnerships and deployments
• Develop partnerships across compute, hardware, infrastructure, and technology providers
• Monitor partnership performance, 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
• Translate client requirements 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
• Collaborate with AI, engineering, product, and regional Expansion teams
• Represent Tether AI in strategic meetings, government engagements, conferences, and industry forums
• Position Tether as a strategic partner for AI sovereignty, privacy, resilience, and infrastructure independence

• 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
• Excellent English communication skills
• Nice to have: ability to speak at least 3 languages
• Ability to work across multiple geographies and cultures

• Remote work
• Opportunity to collaborate with a global talent team
• International travel opportunity/requirement