Ariel Contreras
Head Of Product at Leadsales
Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolAriel Contreras is a product leader with 11 years of experience building AI-enabled, user-centered products across LATAM, currently driving LeadSales’ shift into an AI-native conversational commerce platform. He combines a solid UX and design background with hands-on AI product strategy—having built AI engines, prompt management systems, and internal APIs that democratized LLM usage at Platzi. Ariel has repeatedly scaled cross-functional teams and product operations to deliver measurable outcomes like higher activation, reduced churn, and improved loan portfolio health. He’s particularly experienced in multi-model AI orchestration, agent frameworks, and turning discovery into production workflows that create 10x value through intelligent automation. Beyond product metrics, he brings an educator’s mindset—running workshops and university courses—that accelerates company-wide AI adoption and talent development. Based in Chile, he blends strategic storytelling with practical experimentation to ship AI features that change how teams work.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diplomatura, Big Data & Data Science, Diplomatura, Big Data & Data Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoReforgeMagister Diseño Estratégico, Design Thinking, Innovation, Magister Diseño Estratégico, Design Thinking, Innovation at Universidad de Valparaíso
Spanish, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
UXLAT/declaratoria-uxlat-2019
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
UniversidadCatolicaChile/contenidos-kitdigital
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Guía para optimización de textos digitales
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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