Founding Engineer - Product
About the job
- Strong full-stack engineering ability and product taste.
- Comfort engaging with customers, including when something breaks.
- Pragmatic and autonomous working style; able to work without a curated task board.
- Ship features across the web app, command-line interface, application programming interface, and agent integrations including MCP and plugins.
- Turn customer-built workflows into product features.
- Talk to customers, answer tickets for the areas the role owns, and ship fixes directly.
- Use coding agents heavily and exercise judgment on their output.
- Experience founding something, building developer tools or AI agents, or familiarity with go-to-market tools such as Clay and customer relationship management systems.
About the company
Freckle is an AI-driven data enrichment and research platform designed for non-technical go-to-market teams. It cleans, enriches, and researches lead lists by using AI agents that access 40+ data sources and handle tasks through natural language queries, with options to upload CSVs or connect to HubSpot. It provides a spreadsheet-style interface to manipulate records, run account research, perform waterfall enrichment to find contact details, and set custom lead scoring using plain-English descriptions, then syncs clean data back to the CRM. Freckle differentiates itself from complex tools like Clay by focusing on usability for marketing, sales, and growth teams, while offering CRM enrichment and sales intelligence to improve outbound campaigns and research for investors.
Company Size
1-10
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$5.9M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2023
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Freckle raised $4M on September 8, 2025, led by Gradient and 1984 Ventures.
- Freckle said it served more than 2,500 companies and reached SOC 2 Type II in March 2026.
- The company now sells into RevOps, founders, investors, and talent teams seeking cleaner CRM data.
What critics are saying
- Clay's March 2026 pricing and workflow depth pressure Freckle's simpler wedge.
- Freckle's 100-credit free tier and $99 entry plan face cheaper rivals like Fluar.
- Freckles Skincare filed a TTAB opposition against Freckle on August 27, 2026.
What makes Freckle unique
- Freckle positions itself as the Clay alternative for non-technical GTM teams.
- The product unifies spreadsheet workflows, CRM sync, and natural-language enrichment.
- Freckle CLI extends GTM workflows into the terminal for coding-agent users.
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