AI-Augmented Senior PM · Barcelona · Open to work

Eric
Denis.

An AI-augmented product manager. Ten years of SaaS, with a music-tech specialism and a 360° view from the deep tech to the stage.

Barcelona
Remote-first since 2016FR · EN · ES
[ 01 / About ]

Senior PM with a
360° view.

AI-augmented product work in SaaS, with a music-tech specialism. Behind the curtain at the rights bodies and distributors, on stage at the labels, festivals, and YouTube channels. The playbook works anywhere; the music context is just where I sharpened it.

Eric Denis
Product Manager

Senior PM in music-tech SaaS.

Ten years building SaaS for music rights, royalties, and data-driven products. AI roadmaps at Revelator (LLMs, MCP, deep learning). Founded R&D at Utopia Music — content recognition AI deployed on 45,000 radios. Doubled SPRE revenues to €500K/year at BMAT. I lead distributed squads across R&D, Data, Engineering, and Design.

Creative Projects

Active in the music industry.

Founder & CEO of NEST Festival. Co-founder of Kommuna Records — 12 vinyl releases, 5,000+ copies sold worldwide. Founder of CMYK Music on YouTube — 79M views, 4.3M hours watched, 142k subscribers. Touring DJ. The other side of the table from the SaaS.

Entrepreneur

Builder, top to bottom.

FestiPal is mine end-to-end — idea, concept, web app, mobile app, prototypes, all my work. Strong business acumen, an eye for beautiful design, and intuition for what users actually need. I prefer when the prototype that proves an idea is the actual prototype, not a deck.

Strong business acumen, an eye for beautiful design, and intuition for what users actually need. Always at the cutting edge — testing the latest tools, models, and possibilities.

  • Based — Barcelona
  • Remote-first since 2016
  • Languages — FR / EN / ES
  • Available — full-time + freelance
[ 02 / Services ]

Three ways to work together.

Full-time or per project. Same person, different scope.

01

Product management

Specs, roadmaps, backlogs, and the calls about what to build next. I write code and run AI evals as part of the work, not instead of it.

For
SaaS in music tech, AI-feature work, anything that needs a senior PM who shows up to the codebase.
Format
Full-time · senior consulting
Proof
  • Revelator — AI roadmap, LLM/MCP-powered Insight Reports
  • Utopia — ACR deployed on 45,000 radios
  • BMAT — SPRE project, €500K/yr, −80% cost
02

Apps & prototypes

Working software in days, not slides in weeks. Mobile, web, full-stack. Built, deployed, handed over.

For
Founders validating an idea, teams that need an MVP yesterday, anyone tired of figma-only handoffs.
Format
Project · fixed scope or weekly
Proof
  • FestiPal — concept, mobile app, web app, prototypes, all mine
03

Websites & UI/UX

Marketing sites, landing pages, Figma-to-React. Designed to convert; shipped to a real domain with a real CMS.

For
Small-to-mid teams that need a site live this month, or design that needs to become code.
Format
Project
Proof
  • This site (Next.js + Tailwind)
  • nestmicrofest.com — site + Stripe payments
  • Strapi · Heroku CMS deployments
[ 03 / Selected work ]

Where I've shipped.

Music-rights monitoring, content recognition AI, distribution analytics, AI roadmaps. And before all that — quantitative economics at EU institutions.

2024 — 2025

Revelator

Senior PM — AI & Distribution Data Analytics

Led the AI roadmap end-to-end. Trained fraud-detection deep learning models, shipped LLM/MCP-powered Insight Reports, rebuilt client-facing analytics from the data model up.

  • LLM + MCP
    shipped to production
  • Snowflake
    hands-on SQL on DSP reports
  • 1 unified
    ERD for the whole platform
  • Audited internal systems and customer workflows to identify high-impact AI opportunities
  • Trained DL models that flag suspicious streams and files (fraud detection)
  • Structured internal data into a Knowledge Base for an AI support chatbot
  • Hands-on Snowflake / SQL on Spotify, YouTube, Meta DSP reports
2022 — 2024

Utopia Music

Senior PM, R&D — Content Recognition Tech

Founded the R&D department. Managed a fully-remote 12-person squad of engineers and data scientists. Deployed best-in-class ACR AI at industrial scale.

  • 45,000
    radios scanned in real time
  • 1,500
    TVs scanned in real time
  • 12
    engineers + data scientists managed
  • Founded the R&D department; led specs, roadmaps, squad operations
  • Deployed best-in-class Automatic Content Recognition AI at scale
  • Built wireframes for end-user webapp and dashboards
  • Implemented Agile practices across distributed teams (JIRA, Miro, Slack, Scrum)
2016 — 2022

BMAT

Product Manager — Music Monitoring & Royalties · France

Built the TV and Radio monitoring system for SPRE — the French neighbouring rights society — from zero. Won the public tender, opened the French market for BMAT, scaled the project to €500K/yr while cutting cost 80% through automation.

  • 0 → €500K
    annual revenue · French market unlocked
  • −80%
    cost reduction via automation
  • 5
    freelancers recruited & trained
  • Won the public tender for SPRE — French neighbouring rights society
  • Product Owner — interface between client, engineering, and leadership
  • Defined specs, roadmaps, prioritized backlogs, streamlined workflows
  • Coordinated cross-functional teams (BE, FE, R&D, Operations) in Agile/Scrum
2013 — 2016

Earlier — Quant Economics

Economist · Quantitative Research

AI before it was called AI. Time-series forecasting and global-economy modelling at the highest level — Focus Economics, ECB, UN ILO, European Commission. The mathematical and statistical foundation that still lets me read modern ML papers and stay at the cutting edge of the field.

  • EU · ECB · UN
    institutions worked at
  • Matlab · Stata
    modelling stack
  • Pre-2014
    AI before AI
  • Time-series forecasting and global-economy modelling on multivariate datasets
  • Applied quantitative modelling & statistical analysis (Matlab, Stata, Eviews)
  • Automated and restructured data workflows to scale research and reduce manual work
  • Contributed to academic and institutional research used in economic policymaking
[ 05 / FestiPal ]

I had the idea.
I built it.

An event management OS for festival organizers, suppliers, venues, and talent — with a B2C ticketing layer. Concept, web, mobile, prototypes — built end-to-end. Launching soon.

FestiPal — welcome onboarding, desktop
Onboarding · welcome01 / 03

What it is

The operating system for the modern festival — organizers, suppliers, venues, and talent in one workspace, with a consumer ticketing layer on top.

Three host-routed surfaces on one Next.js codebase: festipal.io for B2B, app.festipal.io for the Expo mobile + web app, and tickets.festipal.io for consumer ticketing. Firebase backend, five languages, role-based permissions, Stripe and Resend wired in.

I had the idea, defined the concept, designed the workspace, and built the front-end. Ten years of music-tech product work meets ten years of running NEST. Same person on both sides of the workflow.

github.com/FestiPalfestipal.io · launching soon
  • Built top to bottom
  • Idea & concept
    From blank page to validated product.
  • Web · festipal.io
    Next.js 16, App Router, Tailwind v4, Firebase Hosting + SSR.
  • Mobile · app.festipal.io
    React Native + Expo, multi-language, role-based perms.
  • Tickets · tickets.festipal.io
    Host-routed B2C consumer surface.
  • FestiLink directory
    Marketplace connecting organizers · suppliers · venues.
  • Front-end + UI/UX
    Pixel-perfect, light + dark, five languages.
StackNext.js 16React 19React Native + ExpoTailwind v4TypeScriptFirebase Auth + FirestoreCloud Functions (SSR)ResendStripe
[ 06 / Side projects ]

Off the clock.

A festival, a record label, a YouTube channel, a web radio. The reason my product instincts are where they are.

NEST Festival

Founder & CEO · 5 editions

  • €70K+
    annual budget
  • 8
    partner-leads
  • 50+
    staff + volunteers
  • 30
    artists · latest edition
  • 500+
    attendees
  • 5 / 5
    editions delivered

A boutique micro-festival in the hills of Alt Penedès, an hour outside Barcelona — vineyards, pine forests, 12–14 June 2026 for the 5th edition. I built the operating system from scratch — people management, ops control, production roadmap, partner workflows, single point of contact for every external stakeholder.

CMYK Music

Founder · YouTube + DJ alias

  • 79M+
    views
  • 4.3M
    hours · ~490 yrs
  • 142K+
    subscribers

Started in Brussels in 2013 to share vinyl rips that weren't online. Grown into one of the bigger curated channels for house, UK garage, and funky electro — heavy on 1996–2006 archival material plus contemporary demos.

Kommuna Records & Events

Co-founder · Barcelona, since 2015

  • 12
    vinyl releases
  • 5,000+
    copies sold
  • 100+
    events / 11 yrs

Independent label and event series in Barcelona, co-curated with pekkuliar. Vinyl-focused releases (KMN001 → KMN012), event bookings including Vera, XDB, El-B, Cassy, Voigtmann. Pressing, distribution, A&R, party promotion — every operational lever an indie label has.

Kanvas.fm

Founder · web radio

  • 5,000+
    hand-curated tracks
  • Up to 500+
    monthly listeners
  • 24/7
    algorithmic radio

A unique selection of mellow grooves. Self-hosted Icecast on a VPS, multi-platform distribution (web stream, YouTube algorithmic segments, SoundCloud archive). Discontinued as a station but the selection lives on through my chillout DJ sets around the EU.

[ 07 / Stack & specialisms ]

The toolkit.

Three lanes — senior PM craft, hands-on building, and the things I'm conversational about. Honest qualifiers — 'basics' means basics.

01 / Product & AI

Senior PM craft, AI on top.

ProductRoadmaps, specs, backlogs
  • Distributed-team leadership across R&D, Data, Engineering, Design
  • Stakeholder management · exec storytelling
  • Discovery · validation · go-to-market
AI in productionLLMs, MCP, RAG
  • Insight Reports + AI knowledge base shipped at Revelator
  • Deep-learning fraud detection on stream/file data
  • AI-augmented PM workflows · Cursor · Claude Code · ChatGPT
Music-tech specialismWhere the rights live
  • DDEX / ERN · CMOs / PROs reporting
  • DSPs: Spotify · YouTube · Meta · Apple
  • Automatic Content Recognition · royalty + rights flows
  • Web3 + smart contracts for music (Allfeat)
02 / Build & ship

Vibe-coding to live URL.

Front-endPixel-perfect, fast
  • Next.js · React · TypeScript · Tailwind · Framer Motion
  • Figma · UI / UX · component systems
  • Mobile + web prototypes
Backends + integrationsWiring it together
  • REST · OpenAPI / Swagger · OAuth · webhooks
  • Stripe (payments) · Docusign (e-signature)
  • WordPress · Strapi · Supabase · Firebase
  • Vercel · Netlify · Cloud Functions
Data hands-onNumbers into UX
  • Snowflake · SQL on DSP reports
  • Tableau · Looker Studio · ERD modelling
03 / Conversational

What I plug into.

Platform engineeringWorking knowledge
  • GCP · AWS basics · Kubernetes · Docker
  • Firebase / Firestore · Cloud Functions
  • Vector databases (Milvus) · AI evals
  • Comfortable in conversations with platform eng — not building it solo
Data + research basicsRead it, ask the right Qs
  • Python · BigQuery · TensorFlow (basics)
  • Stata · Eviews · Matlab (econ background)
Ways of workingHow I plug into eng teams
  • Git / GitHub flow · feature branches · PR-driven dev · code review
  • Async-first · distributed teams across timezones · Agile / Scrum
  • JIRA · Linear · Notion · Miro · Slack · VS Code
[ 08 / Contact ]

Get in touch.

01

Hire me · full-time

Senior PM roles. SaaS, music tech, AI products. Remote-first since 2016. I'll also write code.

Email me
contact@ericdenis.com
02

Hire me · per project

Websites, web and mobile prototypes, MVPs. Or an expert call on music tech, royalties, or rights — the kind of advisory I've done for ICE, Musimap, and Allfeat.

Email me
contact@ericdenis.com