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Rodrigo Cortés Arango

Evaluator · DISC type DCS
Head of Sales, Amazon Ads at Amazon
📍 Brazil

Rodrigo is a seasoned sales leader with over 17 years of experience steering high-performance teams at Amazon and Google. He specializes in sales strategy and market expansion, having successfully launched operations in over 10 Latin American countries. People who have worked with him describe him as strategic, passionate, and an inspiring leader.

Outside of his corporate role, Rodrigo is passionate about career development and helping professionals land their dream jobs using non-traditional marketing and sales methods. He founded GoJoby to accelerate employability and has mentored over 100 startups through Google Launchpad and Endeavor.

Unique fact: Rodrigo has a very unusual hobby—he loves collecting job interviews and aims to participate in one every week to continuously learn and improve.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Head of Sales, Amazon Ads
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Brazil
Personality Overview

How Rodrigo shows up

Quality Focused
Fast But Analytical
Thorough Evaluator

They focus on the results, but can still be quite procedural and analytical about how to get there They are not very likely to become strong advocates of your product or service They have a unique set of diverse traits where they are decisive and methodical but can sometimes be extra cautious and skeptical

Priorities

Topics Rodrigo cares about

LATAM Market Growth
He has extensive experience devising and executing sales strategies across Latin America, having opened more than 10 new markets for Waze during his time at Google.
Digital Advertising
His career is centered on digital ads, leading sales for Amazon Ads and previously growing the Waze Ads business for Google in Latin America.
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Career

Work history

5-2024
Head of Sales, Amazon Ads
Amazon
4-2023 - 4-2024
Global SMB Sales and Operations Director
Botmaker
11-2020 - 10-2021
Angel Investor
Suplio
10-2020 - 9-2021
Angel Investor
Neivor
9-2020 - 9-2021
Angel Investor
TiendAPP
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2014 - 2014
● Changing the Game: Negotiation and Competitive Decision Making
Harvard Business School Executive Education
2009 - 2010
Master
UNSW
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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