aoost

Product Manager, Immersive Media Technologist, Memetic Imagineer

Product Manager and immersive technologist with 8+ years experience designing, building, and delivering impactful digital products across narrative research, training, Virtual Realtiy and health tech. Most recently led LLM integration and curriculum development at Culture Hack Labs, driving AI-powered analysis systems for systems change organisers. Adept at distilling complex conceptual and technical ideas into usable, scalable tools. Proven track record leading interdisciplinary teams in high-stakes environments and building human-centered, data-informed systems from the ground up.


Experience: 8 years

Yearly salary: $54,000

Hourly rate: $50

Nationality: 🇿🇦 South Africa

Residency: 🇿🇦 South Africa


Experience

Culture Hack Rhizome Fellow
Culture Hack Labs
2023 - 2024
Focused on narrative research and intervention strategies for Care Economy and Data Enclosure while contributing to the Transition Resource Circle’s systems of mutual aid and economic narrative mapping.
XR Developer, Creative Direction
Reality Garage
2018 - 2022
Led design and development of therapeutic and vocational VR apps for marginalized populations. Developed software to deliver meaningful data from IoT Devices to First Responders. Lead the UI design for First Responder AR UI using hand tracking and spatially accurate representations of IoT Data.

Skills

analyst
communication
community-manager
product-lead
project-manager
research
ui-ux-designer
unity
virtual reality
product-manager
english
spanish