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Rodrigo Cortés Arango

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