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Hi, I’m

Alejandro Rigatuso

Cartagena

Summary

I love parrots. When I'm not working on growth marketing strategies, I train parrots so they can roam freely at day and come home by night. Sounds perfect, right? But one day one of my parrots didn't come home. The next day, I set up geo-targeted ads that covered a 2-mile radius around my home. Just hours later my parrot was home safe. Achieving precise results in the most efficient way possible is also what I do at work. As the former VP of Product at La Haus, I spearheaded a team that created La Haus Fraction, a model that allows retail and enterprise investors to invest in small portions of a property without worrying about property management. 'Cabo Mar', our first project, is a luxury fractional apartment building in Cartagena, Colombia that hit all-time revenue records at launch, leading to front page and center fold features on the most prominent newspapers across Latin America. These days, I'm back at Toptal where I serve as principal Growth Marketing Strategist. Before this, I was the VP of Growth Marketing and helped increase revenue by 10x with sustained year-on-year growth for 6 years. Before Toptal and La Haus, I founded the companies Postcron and Electronia. I served as CEO of Postcron, a social media post scheduling platform with clients in over 20 countries. It's still going strong today even after I sold it in 2015. Electronia, my first company, was a dropshipping network that doubled as a marketplace for college students to sell digital cameras and laptops on. Despite Argentina restricting foreign trade in 2010, Electronia weathered the storm and kept thriving.

Overview

20
years of professional experience

Work History

Toptal

Principal Growth Marketing Strategist
01.2023 - Current

Fundación Loros

Director
04.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Fundación Loros is an interdisciplinary group committed to the conservation of biodiversity and protection of psittacines in Colombia
  • They work closely with the local community to achieve their goals, collaborating with strategic partners such as CARDIQUE and EPA to improve bird rehabilitation and reforestation efforts in the tropical dry forest region
  • Fundación Loros also aims to raise social awareness of the importance of preserving nature and promotes the use of native species in reforestation
  • Their ultimate goal is to create a more sustainable and healthier future for birds and their natural habitats.

La Haus

Vice President of Product - Marketplace & Buyer Products
11.2021 - 01.2023

Job overview

  • I spearheaded a team that created La Haus Fraction, a model that allows retail and enterprise investors to invest in small portions of a property without worrying about property management
  • Cabo Mar', our first project, is a luxury fractional apartment building in Cartagena, Colombia that hit all-time revenue records at launch, leading to front page and center fold features on the most prominent newspapers across Latin America.

Toptal

Vice President, Growth Marketing
03.2020 - 11.2021

Job overview

  • I helped increase Toptal's revenue by 10x through successful marketing campaigns with a focus on SEO. - I helped expand Toptal's Growth Marketing organization from just a couple people to a team of 50+ professionals.
  • Toptal is a network of the world's top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on demand
  • Toptal is the largest fully distributed workforce in the world.

Toptal

Senior Director of SEO
05.2019 - 03.2020

HARBOUR.SPACE

Lecturer
04.2019 - 03.2020

Job overview

  • Harbour.Space University is a private university in Barcelona, Spain that teaches technology, design, and entrepreneurship
  • I teach SEO at Harbour Space.

Toptal

Director of SEO
05.2018 - 05.2019

Toptal

Growth Marketing & Analytics Advisor
02.2017 - 05.2018

Toptal

Head of Growth
03.2015 - 02.2017

Postcron

Founder & CEO
04.2011 - 03.2015

Job overview

  • In 2011, I founded Postcron, a content calendar and social media scheduling platform that helps businesses, agencies, and individuals streamline their content planning for social media
  • Key achievements: - I founded Postcron and expanded the business into 20+ different countries. - I scaled Postcron's availability to a whopping 50 languages through Google Translator's API. - I identified our key areas for growth and shifted gears for Postcron to focus on the Latin American, U.S, and Brazilian markets. - By 2015, Postcron was a strong, stable, and highly profitable business which I then sold to focus on joining Toptal
  • Postcron is still a competitive business in its field today.

Rockstart

Entrepreneur
03.2012 - 10.2012

Job overview

  • Rockstart Accelerator is a seed investment, mentorship-based program that runs for an intensive 100 days
  • Postcron was the first startup to get funding on Rockstart.

Grupo Electronia

Founder & CEO
03.2007 - 05.2012

Job overview

  • I founded Electronia, my first company, with zero funding and made it thrive through Argentina's foreign trade restrictions
  • Key achievements: - I launched Electronia without any funding by devising a drop-shipping model that allowed college students to sell digital cameras and laptops through Electronia. - I checked for demand in Argentina by creating an ad in a major local newspaper
  • After confirming demand, I followed through on launching Electronia. - After seeing the strengths and opportunities that lay in brick and mortar stores, I opened a physical store that allowed customers to come in and check out Electronia's products. - I kept Electronia thriving and profitable even after Argentina's foreign trade restrictions in 2010 reduced our offerings to a few brands from national factories. - I sold Electronia in 2011 to focus on Postcron, my newer company, when it began to take off.

Tenaris

Internship Program
01.2006 - 04.2006

Coca Cola Andina Argentina

Automation Engineer
11.2004 - 01.2006

Education

Universidad Católica de Córdoba

Engineer from Electronic Engineering
01.1999

Colegio Santo Tomás

Bachiller from Perito Mercantil
01.1998

Skills

  • Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
  • Strategic Planning
  • Wildlife Conservation

Languages

English
Spanish
Portuguese

Personal - Website

alejandrorigatuso.com/

Personal Information

Title: Growth Marketing Strategist

Publications

Growing Growth: Perform Your Own Cohort Analysis

Timeline

Principal Growth Marketing Strategist

Toptal
01.2023 - Current

Director

Fundación Loros
04.2022 - Current

Vice President of Product - Marketplace & Buyer Products

La Haus
11.2021 - 01.2023

Vice President, Growth Marketing

Toptal
03.2020 - 11.2021

Senior Director of SEO

Toptal
05.2019 - 03.2020

Lecturer

HARBOUR.SPACE
04.2019 - 03.2020

Director of SEO

Toptal
05.2018 - 05.2019

Growth Marketing & Analytics Advisor

Toptal
02.2017 - 05.2018

Head of Growth

Toptal
03.2015 - 02.2017

Entrepreneur

Rockstart
03.2012 - 10.2012

Founder & CEO

Postcron
04.2011 - 03.2015

Founder & CEO

Grupo Electronia
03.2007 - 05.2012

Internship Program

Tenaris
01.2006 - 04.2006

Automation Engineer

Coca Cola Andina Argentina
11.2004 - 01.2006

Universidad Católica de Córdoba

Engineer from Electronic Engineering

Colegio Santo Tomás

Bachiller from Perito Mercantil
Alejandro Rigatuso