Global Head of AI Expansion & Partnerships

Tether.io

Dubai

Remote

AED 661,000 - 1,028,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Tether is seeking a highly driven Head of AI Expansion to lead the global adoption of its AI ecosystem, focusing on QVAC and privacy-preserving AI infrastructure. This hands-on leadership role requires engaging with enterprises, governments, and institutions across geographies to deploy AI solutions built around data sovereignty and independence from centralized cloud.

You will identify opportunities, structure complex deals, and build a world-class team to scale Tether AI globally, partnering

Qualifications

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, CS, Eng, or Business or related field.

Responsibilities

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.
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 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.